A/HRC/36/57 indigenous-owned businesses in promoting respect for human rights, indigenous knowledge-based businesses, and strategies to promote non-discriminatory access to financial services by indigenous peoples. 7. From 17 to 21 March 2017, the Expert Mechanism held an intersessional meeting in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug — Yugra, hosted by the Government of the Russian Federation. The purpose of this meeting was to draft specific methods of work for the various activities enshrined in the new mandate of the Expert Mechanism. The meeting enabled the Expert Mechanism to develop guidelines for its engagement in country situations, including responding to requests by indigenous peoples and States for technical advice and dialogue facilitation. 8. The Expert Mechanism was also represented at the sixteenth session (April-May 2017) of the Permanent Forum and took part in the high-level commemorations of the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, conducted by the General Assembly on 25 April 2017. In addition, several members of the Expert Mechanism engaged with United Nations agencies, regional human rights mechanisms, Member States and civil society organizations at the country level, including through activities related to capacity-building. III. Studies, reports and proposals A. Adoption of studies and reports 9. During its session, the Expert Mechanism adopted the following: (a) A study 2 and advice on good practices and challenges in business and in access to financial services by indigenous peoples, mandated by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 33/13, paragraph 4; (b) A report on 10 years of the implementation of the Declaration,3 describing good practices, lessons learned and methods of work relating to its new mandate, in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 33/25, paragraph 2 (b). 10. The Expert Mechanism agreed that the Chair-Rapporteur, in consultation with the other members of the Expert Mechanism, might make revisions to the above-mentioned documents in the light of discussions carried out at its tenth session, and agreed to submit them to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-sixth session. B. Proposals Proposal 1: Participation of indigenous peoples in the Human Rights Council 11. The Expert Mechanism proposes that the Human Rights Council make further efforts to facilitate the participation in its work of indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions, as opposed to non-governmental organizations, in accordance with the Declaration. This would include all meetings relevant to the rights of indigenous peoples, in particular the dialogue between the Expert Mechanism and the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples and the annual half-day discussion on the rights of indigenous peoples. The Expert Mechanism makes this proposal without prejudice to the ongoing consultative process in the General Assembly aimed at enhancing the participation of indigenous peoples in United Nations meetings, to enable the participation of indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions in meetings of relevant United Nations bodies on issues affecting them. 2 3 4 A/HRC/36/53. A/HRC/36/56.