E/2006/43 E/C.19/2006/11 of child mortality; and (c) to discuss criteria on how indigenous peoples should be addressed in the census process. 111. The Permanent Forum urges African States to integrate indigenous traditional institutions into the processes of democratization and to bring them in line with human rights standards. 112. The Permanent Forum urges the international community to pay particular attention to the situation of the Batwa peoples, in particular Batwa women, and to support the inclusion of the San people and other indigenous groups in the national census. The Permanent Forum urges African States and their international development partners to review the poverty reduction strategy papers and other frameworks for integrating the specificities of such indigenous peoples as the Batwa, Pygmies, Touaregue, Amazigh, Khoisan and other hunter-gatherers or nomadic peoples in their countries, both in Central and in Southern Africa. 113. The Permanent Forum urges the international financial institutions to conduct social and environmental impact assessments for their projects in certain countries in Central Africa before undertaking/funding any projects. 114. The Permanent Forum recommends that the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights work together with the Permanent Forum to engage African States in a dialogue with indigenous peoples. 115. The Permanent Forum recommends that Governments, indigenous organizations, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system and bilateral donors work together to collect disaggregated data on Africa’s indigenous peoples and their poverty situation and to report thereon to the Permanent Forum at its sixth session. The World Bank made a commitment at the Conference on Poverty Reduction and Indigenous Peoples (New York, 9 and 10 May 2006) to further collaborate with the Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Issues in collecting disaggregated data. 116. The Permanent Forum recommends that the organizations and bodies of the United Nations system and Member States organize a regional consultation with indigenous organizations and interested donors to develop a more coordinated, sustainable and longer-term programme in the region which has as its principal objective the strengthening of indigenous organizations so as to ensure that they have the technical capacity to engage with Governments and the international community on human rights. 117. The Permanent Forum urges the organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to focus and coordinate their strategies and programmes in order to deal with the problems faced by indigenous peoples in Africa relevant to the mandate of the Permanent Forum on such issues as economic and social development, education, health, human rights, culture and the environment. 118. The Permanent Forum reinforces its institutional relationship with the Human Rights Council on all matters relevant to their mandates. 119. The Permanent Forum urges African Governments to take into account standing reports on the retention of traditional knowledge developed by indigenous peoples and government representatives during the Convention on Biological Diversity process. 19

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