A/RES/58/158 7. Encourages Governments to support the Decade by: (a) Preparing relevant programmes, plans and reports in relation to the Decade, in consultation with indigenous people; (b) Seeking means, in consultation with indigenous people, of giving indigenous people greater responsibility for their own affairs and an effective voice in decisions on matters that affect them; (c) Establishing national committees or other mechanisms involving indigenous people to ensure that the objectives and activities of the Decade are planned and implemented on the basis of full partnership with indigenous people; (d) Contributing to the following funds: (i) The United Nations Trust Fund for the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People; (ii) The United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations, in order to assist indigenous representatives in participating in the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the Working Group on Indigenous Populations of the Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and the open-ended intersessional working group of the Commission on Human Rights charged with elaborating a draft declaration on the rights of indigenous people; (iii) The Trust Fund in Support of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues; (iv) The Fund for the Development of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean; (e) Identifying resources for activities designed to implement the goals of the Decade, in cooperation with indigenous people and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations; Invites United Nations financial and development institutions, 8. operational programmes and the specialized agencies and secretariats, as well as other regional and international organizations, in accordance with the existing procedures of their governing bodies: (a) To give increased priority and resources to improving the conditions indigenous people, with particular emphasis on the needs of those people developing countries, inter alia, through the preparation of specific programmes action for the implementation of the goals of the Decade, within their areas competence; of in of of (b) To launch special projects, through appropriate channels and in cooperation with indigenous people, to strengthen their community-level initiatives and to facilitate the exchange of information and expertise among indigenous people and other relevant experts; (c) To designate focal points for the coordination of activities relating to the Decade with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; and commends those institutions, programmes, agencies and regional and international organizations that have already done so; Recommends that the Secretary-General ensure coordinated follow-up to 9. the recommendations concerning indigenous people of relevant United Nations conferences; 3