A/HRC/30/52 Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples noted that a number of United Nations entities had already developed specific policies on engagement with indigenous peoples, as a good practice that other entities could follow. However, she also noted that there were limited financial and human resources dedicated to indigenous peoples’ issues within the United Nations system, and those resources were often difficult to measure. 74. The consultation served as a useful forum to clarify the following elements of the action plan: • The action plan will focus on a limited number of clearly identifiable actions that the United Nations system will undertake within the next two years. • According to the outcome document, the action plan is to be developed within existing resources. No financial resources have yet been committed to the implementation of the action plan. A possible element of the action plan may involve concerted fundraising efforts for projects, programmes and mechanisms that deal specifically with indigenous peoples. • There is a general agreement that one of the major obstacles to the implementation of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is a general lack of awareness of the Declaration among all stakeholders. Consequently, awarenessraising and advocacy will be an important element of the action plan. • It is important to ensure coherence between the normative work at headquarters and the programmatic work at the country level. To this effect, the United Nations Development Group Guidelines on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues were adopted on 1 February 2008. Those Guidelines are a valuable tool and the action plan will take advantage of this as well as other existing mechanisms. • It is important to strengthen the capacities of indigenous peoples to help ensure the implementation of the Declaration. • The action plan should also invigorate efforts to strengthen the capacities of United Nations staff to work on issues related to indigenous peoples. XII. Adoption of reports, studies and proposals 75. At the last meeting of its eighth session, the Expert Mechanism adopted its study and advice on the promotion and protection of the rights of indigenous peoples with respect to their cultural heritage, including through their participation in political and public life, and the report summarizing the responses to the questionnaire seeking the views of States and indigenous peoples on best practices regarding possible appropriate measures and implementation strategies to attain the goals of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. All proposals were adopted by consensus by the members of the Expert Mechanism. 76. The members of the Expert Mechanism also adopted the provisional agenda of the ninth session (see annex II). 17