E/2013/43 E/C.19/2013/25 65. The Permanent Forum recommends that the Inter-American Development Bank reconsider its policy and strategies so as to ensure the inclusion of representatives of indigenous peoples in an advisory body and incorporate the right of indigenous peoples to free, prior and informed consent, without any qualifications, into safeguard policies and project-related instruments. 66. The Permanent Forum encourages international financial institutions to establish policy mechanisms and programme frameworks requiring corporations to comply with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which were unanimously endorsed by the Human Rights Council in 2011, in addition to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, International Labour Organization Convention No. 169, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. 67. The Permanent Forum, noting the significance for indigenous peoples of the negotiations under way at WIPO on intellectual property and genetic resources, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions, strongly encourages representatives of indigenous peoples to participate in those negotiations, consistent with article 18 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. 68. The Permanent Forum welcomes the role that the WIPO Voluntary Fund for Accredited Indigenous and Local Communities has played since 2005 in funding the participation of indigenous peoples in sessions of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore and calls upon States, foundations and other organizations to contribute to the Fund. 69. The Permanent Forum, recalling the comprehensive dialogue held with the WIPO secretariat at its eleventh session, in 2012, and the recommendations that it then addressed to WIPO, acknowledges the activities undertaken by WIPO to date in response to the recommendations and welcomes, in particular, the holding of an indigenous expert workshop in April 2013, jointly organized by the secretariats of the Forum and WIPO, as recommended by the Forum. 70. The Permanent Forum welcomes the holding of the first global meeting of the Indigenous Peoples’ Forum at the headquarters of IFAD in February 2013. The Permanent Forum is encouraged by the dialogues between the members of the Indigenous Peoples’ Forum and the members of the IFAD Governing Council, including the presentation of the declaration adopted at the global meeting. Discussion on the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples 71. The Permanent Forum reaffirms the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as the normative framework for the high-level plenary meeting of the sixty-ninth session of the General Assembly, to be known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples. The provisions of Assembly resolution 66/296 regarding the organization of the World Conference must be given the widest and most generous interpretation possible in order to achieve the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples. 72. The Permanent Forum welcomes the work undertaken by indigenous peoples in the regional and thematic caucus preparatory meetings and the Indigenous Global Coordinating Group drafting group and looks forward to the forthcoming 14 13-36172