E/CN.4/2004/18/Add.3 page 10 Pacific basin but are hampered by the collective land titles. However, the Colombian Rural Development Institute assured the Special Rapporteur that the land titles that have been granted are inalienable. C. Measures in support of indigenous peoples 26. The Government also informed the Special Rapporteur of the measures that it is taking in support of indigenous peoples. The Government stated that it was making progress in strengthening the ability of institutions to meet the needs of indigenous peoples. For example, budget allocations to improve the health of indigenous peoples and the budget allocation for the indigenous territories designated as resguardos have been increased. 27. Act No. 691 of 2001 guarantees indigenous peoples’ right of access to health services and their participation in them, in decent and appropriate conditions, observing due respect for and protecting Colombia’s ethnic and cultural diversity. The regulations governing social security provide that persons without resources shall be protected by a subsidized system. To date, 497,000 indigenous people have been covered by this system, which costs 90,000 million pesos a year, or nearly US$ 31 million. Approximately 205,000 indigenous people are affiliated with enterprises created by their own communities, which administer some US$ 13 million a year. 28. The indigenous resguardos have the right to a share of the resources that the State transfers to subnational territorial entities. These resources must be invested, under the projects and initiatives of the same indigenous communities, in education, health and basic sanitation, housing and rural development. Between 1994 and 2002, the total amount of resources was 319,809 million pesos, or US$ 109.9 million. This year, the resguardos will receive 61,878 million pesos, or US$ 21 million. 29. The Government is preparing to establish the first indigenous territorial entities, which will be a significant step towards the development of autonomy and independent development since, in addition to being governed by their own authorities, they will be able to receive directly the resources allocated to them by the State, establish their own taxes and administer the services required by their inhabitants, in accordance with their development plans. 30. Moreover, the Government informed the Special Rapporteur that it intended to reactivate the Commission on the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which would be responsible for drafting a concrete plan of action that can be implemented together with the indigenous communities. Last year, the Commission was not able to meet owing to difficulties in reaching agreement on its working methods. 31. In order to begin prompt measures to guarantee the protection of the indigenous peoples, while the necessary consensus for the drafting of the aforementioned plan of action is being reached, the Office of Ethnic Affairs has been preparing a strategy for the protection of the human rights of ethnic groups in order to take full account of the needs of those groups; the strategy will be drafted with the participation of indigenous organizations, authorities and peoples in the venues legally designated for this purpose: the National Commission on the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the High-level Advisory Commission for the Black Communities.