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Le Mécanisme d’assistance pour les peuples autochtones (IPAF), mis en place par le FIDA, a pour objectif de renforcer les communautés de populations autochtones et leurs organisations par le financement de petits projets qui favorisent leur développement autonome dans le cadre de la Déclaration des Nations Unies sur les droits des peuples autochtones, pour en tirer des enseignements et définir des approches en vue d’une reproduction et d’une application à plus grande échelle.

The Indigenous Peoples Assistance Facility (IPAF)1 finances small projects designed and implemented directly by indigenous peoples’ communities and their organizations. The projects are selected through global calls for proposals, based on a competitive process. In managing the IPAF when it was established in 2007, IFAD realized that the Facility was not only a grant-making mechanism, but it also contained a wealth of knowledge derived from the project proposals themselves. With its limited funding, the IPAF can support only a small number of these proposals. Thus, a knowledge-harvesting mechanism was set up with funding from the Initiative for Mainstreaming Innovation (IMI).