Summary

The present report on the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples is submitted in accordance with General Assembly resolution 40/131. It provides updated information on the activities and status of the Fund since the submission of the previous biennial report (A/73/137), including on the thirty-second and thirty-third annual sessions of the Board of Trustees, held in December 2018 and 2019, respectively. It also provides information on the activities related to the expansion of the mandate of the Fund enabling the participation of indigenous peoples in the Forum on Business and Human Rights and the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in addition to other United Nations meetings under its mandate.