E/CN.4/2004/21 page 23 31. States should facilitate the participation of people of African descent in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of education programmes at all levels. 32. Institutes of African studies should include in their programmes information about people of African descent in the diaspora; where such institutes do not exist, the Working Group encourages States and universities to consider establishing such institutions. 33. States should mainstream the rights of people of African descent into the education strategies for achieving the Millennium Development Goals and adopt positive measures to achieve this objective. 34. States should collect disaggregated data on people of African descent in the field of education and make reference to these data when reporting on the progress made in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. 35. States should monitor the impact of education programmes designed primarily for people of African descent. Where programmes do not achieve their objectives, remedial measures should be taken in consultation with the affected communities. 36. States should develop appropriate guidelines and training on the rights of people of African descent for teachers and others engaged in education-related activities. 37. States should allocate sufficient resources to provide training for people of African descent in the official language or languages used in education and, where appropriate, provide for bilingual education. Organization of and participation in future sessions of the Working Group 38. The Working Group of Experts, having been in existence for almost one and a half years and having reached its full membership of experts from all five regions, have come to an understanding that in order to do justice to the mandate given to it by the Commission on Human Rights, it would be necessary to take the following steps as soon as possible and certainly before the expiration of its present mandate: (a) Consolidate its cooperation with other United Nations bodies such as UNICEF, UNDP, WHO, ILO and UNESCO; (b) Initiate consultations with the following bodies: African Union, European Union, Council of Europe, Organization of American States, Organization of the Islamic Conference, League of Arab States, Association of South-East Asian Nations, and international financial institutions including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund;