A/HRC/4/32 page 20 86. Despite its limitations, the adoption of the World Bank Operational Policy on Indigenous Peoples (OP/BP 4.10) has been positive in that this body has supported many development projects on indigenous lands in different parts of the world. The World Bank, together with the other international financial institutions that have recently adopted specific policies or directives on indigenous people, such as the International Finance Corporation, the Asian Development Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, must ensure that their policies and directives on indigenous people are fully respected and effectively implemented. 87. Numerous United Nations bodies have included indigenous issues in their work agendas and serious efforts are being made to incorporate such issues into their respective fields of action. Coordination of such work is a key function of the Inter-Agency Support Group for the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, comprising 27 intergovernmental organizations. The Special Rapporteur has observed, however, that these objectives do not always find immediate effect in the activities of all the United Nations country teams with local responsibility for implementing those policies. The Special Rapporteur therefore recommends that the United Nations agencies and country teams should include indigenous rights in their agendas, with a view to securing full implementation of the Declaration and attaining the Millennium Development Goals, and should actively involve the indigenous peoples in the planning and implementation of their policies at the national and international level. III. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 88. Since the Special Rapporteur’s mandate was established, it cannot be said that the human rights situation of indigenous people has so far changed substantially. Progress has been made in some areas, especially in the legislative and judicial spheres. The human rights of indigenous people have acquired greater visibility in some countries as well as internationally, largely thanks to the work of various United Nations bodies, which has culminated for the time being in the Human Rights Council’s adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. In some countries it has been possible to identify good practices leading to the consolidation of the human rights of these people, whose claims and proposals are being expressed ever more vocally, owing to the high degree of social, and sometimes political, mobilization. 89. These advances, however, have encountered numerous obstacles and in some cases also setbacks. In many spheres, there is still a lack of understanding about indigenous rights, linked to the persistence of prejudices and discriminatory, not to say racist, attitudes. More disturbing is the opposition displayed by various national and international private economic interests to the full enjoyment of indigenous rights. Those interests are centred on land ownership and the exploitation of natural resources, especially forestry, water and subsoil resources. They often collude with the structures of political power to impede progress with regard to indigenous people’s human rights. 90. This the reason for the implementation gap between legislation, public institutions and actual practice at the local level, and why indicators of social and economic well-being of the vast majority of the indigenous population, especially women, continue to be well below national averages. In order to address this pattern of inequality and injustice that generates permanent human rights violations, indigenous people resort to different forms