E/2013/43 E/C.19/2013/25 52. The Permanent Forum recommends that States take steps to establish truth commissions in situations of reported gross violations of the human rights of indigenous peoples. The Forum underlines that the full and effective participation of affected indigenous peoples is a precondition for the establishment and work of truth commissions. Comprehensive dialogue with United Nations agencies and funds 53. The Permanent Forum engaged in an interactive dialogue with the international financial institutions (the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the International Finance Corporation). Development projects financed by international financial institutions have significant impacts on the rights and livelihoods of indigenous peoples, who worldwide constitute a disproportionately high percentage of the poor and who have lower levels of education and a greater incidence of disease and discrimination than other groups. The Forum welcomes the opportunity to engage in a dialogue with the multilateral development banks — the first of its kind in the operative years of the Forum — and hopes that it will result in a more structured relationship between the Forum and the banks and that it will feed into the outcome of the processes to review and update safeguard policies that many of the banks are currently undertaking. 54. The Permanent Forum recommends that international financial institutions unequivocally acknowledge the collective right of indigenous peoples to their lands, territories and resources in their safeguard policies and in all development project contexts (not merely in exceptional circumstances). Banks should not support any projects that affect indigenous peoples without prior recognition of and effective guarantees for their collective rights to own, control and manage their lands, territories and resources. 55. The Permanent Forum recommends that international financial institutions adopt and incorporate the right of indigenous peoples to free, prior and informed consent, without qualification, into their safeguard policies and project-related instruments. International financial institutions must ensure that their clients and borrowers engage in processes with indigenous peoples affected by bank-financed projects to secure their free, prior and informed consent. 56. The Permanent Forum recommends that the World Bank brings its policy on indigenous peoples (OP 4.10) into full compliance with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Forum attaches particular importance to the need for the Bank to adopt the standard of free, prior and informed consent and, in general, to institutionalize and operationalize an approach based on human rights. The Forum reiterates its recommendation, made at its twelfth session that the emerging instruments of the Bank and other agencies must be harmonized with the Declaration, which is regarded as a reflection of the minimum human rights standards necessary for the promotion and protection of indigenous peoples, nations and communities. Such instruments should be consistent with or exceed those minimum standards. The Forum underlines the need for the Bank’s operational policies to use language that is consistent with the Declaration. 57. The Forum notes with concern the unsatisfactory implementation of the World Bank’s policy on indigenous peoples, as documented by many of the Bank’s internal 12 13-36172