New Action Plan for 2005 and Beyond

1. 

Scaling up successful IK practices that could help achieve the Millennium Development Goals 

2.

Enhancing the capacity of local communities to develop, share and apply their indigenous knowledge systems by, among other things:  

• Developing national IK strategies and
  incorporating them into country poverty
  reduction programs
• Brokering of South-South knowledge and
  learning exchanges
• Facilitating community-to-community exchanges
• Building professional associations of indigenous practitioners
• Supporting communities to develop
  businesses related to IK. 

3.

Developing innovative tools for the validation and protection of IK

4.

Designing a results framework for monitoring IK and measuring its impact

5.

Establishing an innovation fund to promote successful IK practices

6.

Promoting a global dialogue on IK to galvanize the support of the development partners for the above agenda.