United Nations Resolution I.

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Date: 13 February 2021

Distr: General

UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL

COMMITTEE

Virtual Session of the United Nations Economic and Financial Committee

Draft Resolution 1.1 – UBUNTU N SEEDS

Committee: Economic and Financial Committee of United Nations (ECOFIN)

Topic: Inuit Communities: Balancing Traditional and Modern Economies
Signatories: Alaskan Federation of Natives, Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, Republic of Albania, Burkina
Faso, Belize, Republic of Cabo Verde, Republic of Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Republic Of
Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Union of the Comoros, Arab Republic of Egypt, Eswatini, Federal
Republic of Ethiopia, Republic of The Gambia, Greenland, Republic of Guinea, Republic of Honduras,
Jamaica, Republic of Kazakhstan, Republic of Kenya, State of Libya, Republic of Madagascar, Islamic
Republic of Mauritania, Republic of Malawi, Republic of Namibia, Republic of Nauru, Republic of The Niger,
Federal Republic of Nigeria, Sultanate of Oman, Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Independent State of Papua New
Guinea, Republic of Paraguay, Independent States of Samoa, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Republic of Senegal,
Republic of Serbia, Republic of Seychelles, Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Republic of Sierra Leone,
Republic of the Sudan, Kingdom of Thailand, Kingdom of Tonga, Republic of Tunisia, Republic of Uganda,
Republic of Vanuatu, Republic of Zambia.

The General Assembly,

Reaffirming the purposes and principles contained in the Charter of the United Nations,

Reaffirming the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the solemn commitment to
respect, promote and advance and in no way diminish the rights of indigenous peoples and to uphold the
principles of the Declaration,

Acknowledging the lack of representation of Inuit communities in local, state, and international affairs,

Deeply concerned by the lack of Inuit representation, as well as economical opportunities for development and
the needs of having sustainable development model,

Noting with regret the uncertainty Inuit communities face in their economic and social statuses,
Alarmed by the climate hazards that have the potential to seriously affect strategic Inuit territory,

Recognizing the importance of traditional knowledge and the need for preservation of Inuit culture and
tradition;

Acknowledging of the history of colonialism that has affected the Inuit and its long-term effects on their modern
day life,

Bearing in mind the need to balance modern and traditional economies of the Inuit,

Noting with approval the current committee efforts to introduce and establish a much more sustainable inuit
communities,

Reiterating this committee’s commitment to the improvement of Inuit livelihoods,

Respectful of the traditions of Inuit communities, and determined to provide all encompassing solutions that
encourage an intersectional approach between culture and economic performance,

1. Recommends a Financial Inclusion Initiative (FII) strategy aimed at expanding Inuit access to digital
financial services (DFS), improvement of the process of obtaining Inuit-owned patents through the concept
of Aid For Trade (AFT), which will help the Inuit in marketing their products and encourages corporations
to grant Inuit communities shares in local industrial revenues (SHARE), and Market Matching
Mechanism to empower business with metrics such as (i) market volatility, (ii) customer satisfaction, (iii)
consumer price index, (iv) producer price index, (v) customer price index;
2. Proposes the International Corporation Engagement (ICE) Protocol, a system aimed at establishing a
regulatory framework for international corporations doing resource extraction in the Arctic, monitored by a
cluster of Inuit Representatives of each of the four Inuit regions of the ICC, and working alongside the
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), having these guidelines:
a. Enforce the Resource Quotas, aimed at foreign companies operating in Inuit land, using a strict formula
to produce the Inuit Resource Profit (IRP) which will be a maximum of 30% of their annual gross
income, by:
i. Establish a Pigovian Tax on tourists and a Black Carbon tax on cruises which pass across this
region as a measure to counterbalance the negative ecological impact;
ii. Create an agreement with the Inuit which will grant them an open market;
iii. Integrate modern finance into the Inuit emerging economy by allowing them to use their national
currencies but pegging them to the US Dollar to facilitate an open market;
iv. Monitor extraction revenue by members of the International Inuit Business Association (IIBA),
allocating a percentage to Inuit capacity building,
v. Solidify the standing of the Inuit communities through the establishment of an agreement
between the Inuit which will grant them an open market, for a cohesive Inuit voice to be heard
globally in order to achieve a cohesive goal;
3. Proposes a series of projects Innovation, Culture, Equity, and Economic (ICEE-Packs) packages, to
alleviate the current economic status of Inuit communities:
a. Stimulus Packages: offered by the government to development of roads to enhance employment
potential and boost traditional economic sectors,
 b. Purchase of Inuit Produce: An adaptive geographical purchase of 100% the Inuit produce, taking into
consideration that this cannot be applied in every state,
c. Diversification: diversify the economic sector through incrementation in education and the creation of
technical schools and expansion into transport, food, and tech industries
d. Urges the creation of lenient policies for export of Inuit produce;
i. Development of Rural Households: increasing incomes of the selection population, focusing on
providing safety nets and sustainable livelihood opportunities, and credit bonds issued by the
countries central bank,
ii. Tariffs: reduction and special incentives designed to promote industries such as art and fisheries,
iii. Microfinance initiative: seeks to bring financial services and products to the community in
remote communities and to overcome cultural and religious barriers relating to traditional credit;
4. Recommends to the Arctic Nations, in which Inuit traditional lands reside, the enactment of the Arctic
Indigenous People Retribution Law for the establishment of FITI Fund (From Inuit to Inuit) alongside
the International Inuit Business Council (IIBC), the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) and the IMF with the
ultimate goal to encourage private enterprises to give a certain royalty and that money will go to the fund
and will be invested in three main categories: equities, fixed income and real estate:
a. The law will be enacted to request arctic´s oil and gas companies a certain amount of royalty of
their final production as an insurance to protect their operating license in the Arctic to extract the
resources mentioned above;
b. The fund will be created with the help of the IIBC and the ICC, which are the institutions in
charge of financial matters of the Inuit community:
i. Will be nurtured by the royalties that the private enterprises that work in the Arctic
exploding oil and gas will give to the four countries in which Inuit live;
ii. The money will go to the fund and the institution will be in charge of investing that
money in real estate, equities and fixed income;
iii. The investment fund will use the return generated by the investment of the money to
provide unconditional cash transfers to the Inuit of the four regions which will allow the
Inuit community to have the possibility to freely choose the destination of that money to
provide to them;
iv. The IMF alongside every country that host Inuit will be in charge of the bankarization
process of all Inuit communities in these four countries;
c. For the right functioning of the fund, the institutions will have several rules to structure the
dynamics of the unconditional cash transfers for the Inuit community:
i. To be of legal age depending on each Inuit community;
ii. Have a bank account and being a beneficiary of the IMF program created above;
iii. The account will be created at the moment an Inuit is born but these Inuit will withdraw
their funds at the time they turn the legal age established in the first requirement;
iv. The unconditional cash transfers will operated for Inuit individuals until two lines of
generations (Grandfather and father);
5. Recommends creation of a special letter agreement with the participation of NGO´s, States with Arctic
territory, Neutral states and companies;
a. impose a utilities tax that will help the inuit development of the areas in each territory to be
determined by the government;
b. Responsibility to employ people from Inuit within the companies that are exploiting the arctic
land and provide fair wage and worker protection;
 c. Environmental commitment and the managing of resources and species;
6. Recommends an Inuit Market Development (IMD) strategy, through which this bloc proposes
international collaboration to bolster Inuit presence as a competitive market for Foreign Direct Investment,
Trade and sustainability;
a. Demands international collaboration between state, ECOFIN, associated institutions including
ECOSOC and World Bank and other relevant partners;
b. The IMD strategy recommends the creation of Indigenous Special Economic Areas (ISEA)
within Inuit territories of respective nations; the creation of limited exclusive economic zones be
implemented to protect the traditional economy of the Inuit;
c. Encourages state governments to establish regulation on prioritizing Inuit business in the private
and public sectors supply chain bidding, and establish monitoring committee to prevent bias for
Inuit business;
d. Proposes the Stimulus of Action (SOE) where the Inuit will be given funding in terms of helping
their business, as well as training to develop local businesses

7. Suggests the creation of an Inuit Development Fund that will give grants, loans and investments to Inuit
businesses, communities, regional development plans, projects or policies, comprising of four permanent
member states (Canada, Russia, Greenland and the United States) and non-permanent, non-regional
members who have an interest in business in the Arctic, which would:
a. earn funding from methods such as but not limited to: the repayment of their loans, money earned from
their investments as well as contributions from the member states;
b. have a board of directors comprising of three-quarters Inuit in order to maintain an Inuit interest in the
spending of this money;
c. have an advisory seat on the Inuit Circumpolar Council in order to maintain a clear sense of joint Inuit
autonomy;
8. Encourages the Development of an Integrated Multi-Sector Economy (DIMSE): This program’s aim is
to escape from the Dutch Disease in the Inuit Communities through the development of a Multi-Sector
Economy:
a. Investigating on the level of economic dependence of Inuit Communities’ economy on foreign
companies in order to define priorities: organization of a pole in each company of each sector;
b. Recommending economic sectors’ diversity through the promotion of niche sectors to the Inuit
Communities;
c. Ensuring the maintenance of this balance between sectors in order to ensure a thriving economy and
escape from a dependence on external shocks, foreign companies or the energy and tourism sectors;
d. Encouraging improvement of logistical processes;
9. Recommends Prevention of Unregulated High Seas Fishing and to better solve the problem about the
decrease of the Inuit seal products:
a. The government should be reasonokay ably involved in the management and sale of seal products:
i. Define and set up the designated selling place and selling enterprises to better standardize the
market;
ii. To give the relevant products the government registered trademark, in order to better promote
sales and form the corresponding product effect;
iii. To help coastal communities plan their hunting times and quantities, and to guarantee their
responsibility for such reasonable and sustainable development in international marketing;
 iv. Further reducing costs, the government subsidizes the shipping costs of Seal products to
businesses or individuals;
b. For these reasons, in each Inuit community, the local government should set up a department to further
plan and manage Seal products, If necessary, a permanent Inuit-related department would be a good
choice;
10. Recommends the organization of free-trade agreement within Inuit communities through signing FTA with
the Inuit Circumpolar Council as well as encouraging trade with major export partners:
a. Includes promotion of import/exports in EU, Russia, and North America of major Inuit economic
sectors
b. Consider providing convenience to Inuit communities’ border trade through reducing some
complex procedures;
11. Calls for support from the international community for the creation of Project Inuit Next Gen (PING) to
invest directly in the future of the Inuit community, ensuring them a more stable future:
a. Collaborate with First Nations, Inuit, and Indigenous peoples and organizations to address child poverty
by:
i. Providing early learning and childcare services to give children and mothers to escape harmful
situations with access to both shelter and free meal services;
ii. Creation of government-sponsored programs that provide education on skills and knowledge
required to succeed in both traditional and modern economies:
i) Educational tools and curriculums should reflect traditional Inuit culture, and provide
adequate training and education for Inuit to fully engage in their modern economies and
social structures;
ii) empower Inuit schools with technology as well as vocational and trade schools;
b) develop a program to engage parents that will accomplish the following goals:
i) expand awareness of the links between student success and parent-school-community
engagement and research on socio-economic outcome gaps;
ii) improve outcomes in Inuit education through comprehensive investment in leadership
development;
iii) increase the number of bilingual/community educators;
c) address the stigma around mental health through targeted campaigns in Inuit communities;
d) collecting data and testimonies around the socio-economic output gaps resulting from
educational gaps to inform policy and decision-making;
e) sponsors the creation of sustainable entrepreneurial projects and incubators to provide Inuit
youth new opportunities;
f) to empower the Inuit especially youth and women by training, workshop, capacity building that
work together with the Inuit governments, international organizations such as UNDP, UNESCO,
UNWOMEN, UNICEF, and local organizations itself;
12. Encourages governments housing Inuit community to expand the access to safe accommodations and
affordable housing:
a. Increased and sustained direct government funding to improve access to appropriate and affordable
housing in Inuit Nunangat;
b. Collaborative Inuit work among all relevant partners to increase alternative housing options, leading to
sustainable housing in Inuit communities and recognition of the direct role of Inuit governments and
organizations in building and managing housing in Inuit communities;
 c. Improve housing options to reduce the overcrowding of housing by reducing overcrowding and the
number of dwellings requiring major repairs;
d. Expansion of housing options in Inuit communities including increasing affordable rental and
homeownership, as well as transitional and supportive housing to reduce reliance on social housing and
to promote sustainable economic and housing security;
e. Develop sustainable and culturally appropriate housing designs;
f. Explore ways to support home-ownership that are suited to community needs;
g. Develop model building codes tailored to the environmental and social needs;

13. Calls for the creation of a Coordinated Food Initiative (CFI) to address the food insecurity that continues to
hurt many Inuit communities:
a. Built through inclusive partnership and collaboration by all stakeholders;
i. Inuit in Nunavut must be involved in decision making and strategy development that the
Nunavut Food Security Coalition utilizes;
ii. Develop culturally appropriate solutions in cooperation with the international scientific
community that both improve lives and ensure the right to food especially with the impacts of
climate change;
iii. Works alongside existing NGOS to fulfill the Sustainable and Development Goals to discuss
environmental issues;
b. Looks to enhance the production of food production in the North to prevent shortage issues due to
economic linkages;
c. Creates government subsidy programs that send fresh healthy foods to isolated northern communities;
d. Promotes models similar to Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in Teaching and Working Farm or Nänkäk nishi tr'ënòshe
gha hëtr'ohǫh'ąy that provide sustainable fresh produce, train youth in essential farming skills, and
empower the community;
14. Encourages sustainable public and private alliances to provide Inuit the necessary funds to develop
infrastructure projects and capacity building;
15. Acknowledges the legacy of colonialism that has plagued education systems across the traditional Inuit
homeland, imposed by colonial governments, which will consist of three teaching pillars:
Perspective:
a. Involve Inuit perspectives and Inuit academia to develop a curriculum that is suitable and
relevant to the current needs instead of based on a colonial history and colonialism;
b. Improve access to early education to Inuit children by, identifying the percentage on how many
Inuit children don't have access to early education and their obstacle, then troubleshoot the main
issue in form of constructing easier access to early education also improve the municipal and
territorial approaches each area by giving Inuit families socialization regarding the importance
on early education;
Community:
c. Involve the Inuit community in the reformation of the educational curriculum to ensure that such
local culture will be included towards the education curriculum itself;
d. Consulting with the Inuit regarding their most preferable education system to ensure that there
will be equality and inclusivity;
e. Encourages Inuit representation will participate in the educational board to make more effort to
prevent, and elminate any kind of discrimination faced by the students in the school, in such a
way long-term perspective will be gained;
 Creativity:
f. Encourage the creation and creative development of vocational training institutions to stimulate
local economic growth at all levels;
16. Encourages every Arctic Nation to promote SDG Goal 5, Prioritizing Inuit Women Rights in
participating in labor market, which details follows the following PIWR program;
a. Collaborating with Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada to determine where the international
community can best support Inuit women;
b. Collaborating with private sector or SMEs to prioritize job position for Inuit in the local area;
c. Encourages Inuit Women Mental Health (IWW) Programmes, which focuses on strengthening
and improving confidence and wellbeing of Inuit Women by educational programs;
d. Encourages fostering business stimuli with infrastructure capacity building aimed at
telecommunication and digital infrastructure developments in order to address significant
infrastructure inequalities that hinder economic self sufficiency;
17. Implores Arctic states to encourage Inuit representation in the federal, provincial, and territorial civil and
public services;
18. Further Recommends to the Arctic States the creation of:
a. “Air Polar Express”, to promote the subsides to the airlines that arrives to the Inuit communities;
b. Increase in education investment - Creating schools to form technicians to provide the knowledge and
give them the possibility to work on the companies that are currently working within the Arctic territory;
c. Visibility to the entrepreneurship ideas from Inut communities, promoting fairs where they can meet
investors and shareholders to invest on their businesses;
d. Communication about the facilities and processes about business creation in each country, and in that
promote innovation and employment;
e. Give the recommendation to the states with arctic territory to consider the possibility to have a special
chair for special advisors from Inuit community in the Trade Agreements signed by the states with
other actors in the international market, in that way, giving answers to the claims of the Arctic Policy,
Economic issues- international Trade and Traffic, to take into consideration their voices;
19. Recommends the application of Sustainable Environment Assessment (SEA) to assess the level of
sustainability of a development project, the readiness of implementing those projects, and to be the primary
reference for benefit sharing and realizing equitable development, using a set of social, environmental, and
economic parameter with panels consisting of inuit representatives, with the following:
a. Measures are based on Life Impact Assessment (LIA) by calculating the production,
transportation, use, and disposals of materials used under a development project or resource
extraction, with additional human perspective with metrics including but not limited to: (i) water
quality index, (ii) greenhouse gas emission project, (iii) waste treatment area, (iv) length of the
project, (v) human development index, (vi) area of the project, (vii) biodiversity index, (ix)
unemployment rate and impact;
b. Ensures the inclusion of free, prior, and informed consent of Inuit representative groups and
encourages their joint participation in the SEA;
c. The representatives and members states to evaluate report on an annual basis involving the Inuit
Circumpolar Council (ICC),
d. Classifications based on the report are to be made public in an annual basis to better evaluate
projects that occurs within a member states in correlation to their impact on the environment and
inuit communities;
 e. Encourages local governments, NGOs, and Indigenous communities to participate in the creation
of a climate contingency plan Climate Contingency Plan 2021 that is able to prepare Inuit
infrastructure for possible climate hazards;
20. Encourages the phase out of all Sustainable Alternatives for Natural Resource Extractions (SANRE)
within the Arctic, to prevent further pollution and destruction of traditional Inuit ways of life:
a. Establish long-term goals for Arctic nations in reducing natural resource extraction and climate
emissions;
b. Promotes further research into environmentally sustainable practices for development which
includes and accounts for Inuit traditional knowledge in order to increase ecological factors
relevant in economic development;
c. Creates innovative long- term policies for sustainable management of natural resources within
the Arctic territory, regarding Inuit communities;
d. Calls upon strict prohibition of harmful chemical substance (defined by Globally Harmonized
System of classification and labelling of chemicals (GHS)) experiments in marine resources
located in Inuit communities, as to prevent contamination in Inuit food and products:
e. Establish efficient monitoring mechanism under the framework of the Protocol on Heavy Metal
(PHM);
f. Recommends cooperation with Non-governmental sectors to provide relevant information
sharing platform as to raise awareness in Inuit communities;
21. Recommends the formation of a committee, I-SEA (Inuit-Securing Environment of the Arctic) at an
international level covering the entire landscape of the Indigenous communities consisting of Arctic
program environment specialists and Inuk lawyers who advance in establishing legal rights of the Inuit, and
pollution control officers, and this committee will be responsible for:
a. Overseeing the environmental aspect of every infrastructural project in the arctic areas (to check
for any permafrost melting hazard, etc);
b. Keeping a check on any unsustainable resource extraction, or any other harmful land-based
activity which is antithetical to Inuit culture;
22. Recommends the increased protection of Inuit Intellectual Property Rights (IIPR) by the application of the
Inuit Intellectual Property Rights Enhancement Program (IIPREP) amongst member states by
registering, documenting, and protecting Inuit Intellectual Property Rights from being used by parties
without Inuit Communities Prior Informed Consent (PIC) and Mutually Agreed Terms (MAT) with specific
regulation falls under the rights of each member states, and general guideline as follows:
a. Present international norms are Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD , Nagoya Protocol,
and United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP);
b. Recommends investment into the preservation of Inuit traditional knowledge led by Inuit
communities in order to allocate investment resources appropriately:
i. Traditional knowledge is understood to include, but is not limited to: traditional language,
hunting practices, music, theatre, dance, performance art, song, traditional medicines,
technology, ceremonies, and ecological knowledges and practices;
c. The creation of a sub-committee under national relevant cultural and trade ministries that act as
the national competent authority for documentation of Inuit Intellectual Property Rights, to be
mandated by Inuit communities, which will coordinate with the domestic policy makers and also
collaborate with other international organizations and academics;
23. Recommends the implementation of the Framework of Equity, a framework which will incorporate the
Inuit towards inclusivity, by giving representation in the United Nations body to address their concern via
the UN Representation Forum on Indigenous People:
a. The representative shall be incorporated from the ICC (Inuit Circumpolar Council) to address
their concern regarding economical, cooperation as well as legalities;
b. The United Framework will work in collaboration with the UN Representation Forum for
Indigenous People;
c. Promotes multilateral collaboration and negotiation between the public and private sectors with
Inuit representative organizations, acknowledging the Indigenous right to informed consent
regarding any development in their territory.