E/2006/43 E/C.19/2006/11 29. In follow-up to the Millennium Development Goals, the Permanent Forum urges Governments and agencies to quantify the number of projects and programmes that they are undertaking in response to the recommendations of the Permanent Forum. It would also be helpful if they could, when reporting, report on progress in the process of implementation of recommendations, instead of merely enumerating activities. Reports could be more analytical, not just activity-based, and should pick up on relevant recommendations from past sessions that addressed the necessary theme. 30. As a means of redefining approaches, countries with indigenous peoples are urged to incorporate the issues and challenges specifically faced by indigenous peoples directly into the framework of the Millennium Development Goal reports by: (a) including indigenous peoples within the context of the overall report; (b) including indigenous peoples in the context of meeting each specific goal; (c) including indigenous peoples in the planning of the overall report and each individual goal; and (d) including indigenous peoples’ effective participation in the planning process of future interventions, and in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programmes and projects that will directly or indirectly affect them. 31. The Permanent Forum appoints Victoria Tauli-Corpuz and Parshuram Tamang as Special Rapporteurs charged with preparing a working paper, without financial implications, in cooperation with indigenous peoples organizations, Governments and other relevant institutions, on palm oil development, commercial tree plantations and mono-cropping and on their impacts on indigenous peoples’ land tenure and resource management systems and livelihoods. 32. The Permanent Forum welcomes the conclusion of a feasibility study undertaken by the United Nations University (UNU) to establish a research and training centre of traditional knowledge, and recommends, should the centre be established, that indigenous traditional knowledge be a central focus of research and that indigenous experts be part of the research staff. 33. Indigenous traditional knowledge not only sustains indigenous and local communities in their daily lives, but is also a key element of their identity and selfdetermination. Such knowledge of indigenous communities, which reflects their holistic world views, also contributes to the world’s cultural and biological diversity and is a source of cultural and economic wealth for the communities and for humanity as a whole. Indigenous knowledge systems are subject, however, to a variety of threats. In response, numerous practical, legislative and policy initiatives are under way at the community, national, regional and international levels to enhance the protection of indigenous traditional knowledge. However, as stressed by the indigenous experts who took part in the International Technical Workshop on Indigenous Traditional Knowledge (Panama City, 21-23 September 2005), respect for the rights of indigenous peoples, in particular their human rights, is at the heart of their concerns about the preservation, the promotion and the protection of traditional knowledge and cultural expressions. Due consideration of those concerns and perspectives, while preserving, promoting and protecting the traditional knowledge and cultural expressions of indigenous communities, will have a direct bearing on the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. 34. The Permanent Forum welcomes and endorses the recommendations of the above-mentioned workshop on indigenous traditional knowledge by emphasizing paragraphs 61-74 of the report of the Workshop (see E/C.19/2006/2). 7