A/HRC/36/56 together with OHCHR and UNDP, launched the United Nations Indigenous Peoples’ Partnership, which presently also includes the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Population Fund and UNESCO. An action plan was introduced to indigenous peoples and Member States at the fifteenth session of the Permanent Forum in May 2016. Since then, there has been a media and awareness-raising campaign as well as a mapping of guidelines, policies and manuals relating to indigenous issues across the United Nations system. The Partnership has been involved in inception-phase projects that have been implemented in six countries across Africa, Latin America and Asia. The 2015 ILO strategy for action concerning indigenous and tribal peoples commits it to contribute actively to this system-wide action plan. Since 2007, five additional countries have ratified the Convention (the Central African Republic, Chile, Nepal, Nicaragua and Spain). 49. Other United Nations agencies have also implemented the Declaration, such as the International Fund for Agricultural Development, which has adopted a policy engagement with indigenous peoples and established a permanent indigenous peoples forum and a specific grant mechanism called the “Indigenous Peoples Assistance Facility”. At the country level, it has engaged in policy dialogues in implementation of the Declaration across Latin America, Asia and Africa. 50. The engagement of indigenous peoples in negotiations for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on climate change was a step in the right direction to help adhere to the Declaration. Unlike the Millennium Development Goals, the Sustainable Development Goals make explicit reference to indigenous peoples’ development concerns and are founded on principles of universality, human rights, equality and environmental sustainability — core priorities for indigenous peoples. However, some of the main priorities for indigenous peoples are not reflected in the 2030 Agenda, such as the principle of free prior and informed consent, the right to self-determined development, legal recognition of indigenous peoples and their individual and collective rights. Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals should be culturally sensitive, involve full participation of indigenous peoples and respect fully the Declaration. The treaty bodies may consider requesting disaggregated data and statistics that could be used to measure progress relating to indigenous peoples across the Goals. 51. On 4 August 2016, after extensive consultations, the World Bank Board of Directors approved a new set of environmental and social safeguards, including a specific environmental and social safeguard on indigenous peoples and the historically underserved traditional local communities of sub-Saharan Africa, in order to ensure that World Bankfunded development projects do not harm indigenous peoples and the environment. It will be launched in 2018 to replace its existing operational policy on indigenous peoples, which requires borrowing countries to ensure any World Bank-funded project does not harm indigenous peoples’ rights and includes the norm of free prior and informed consent. The new standard should be applied consistently and without waivers, such as the one granted by the World Bank in 2016 to the United Republic of Tanzania with respect to the “ Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania” project, which prompted strong condemnations from the Special Rapporteur, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and indigenous peoples. It is to be hoped that no further waivers will be granted in the future. 52. The World International Property Organization (WIPO) and UNESCO are working on measures relating to indigenous peoples’ cultural rights, as protected under the Declaration. The WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore is undertaking negotiations with the objective of reaching agreement on international legal instrument(s) towards the protection of traditional knowledge, traditional cultural expressions and genetic resources. Trademark, copyright and patent laws, for example, all incentivize innovation by rewarding the individual inventor or creator with monopolies over their products, with financial benefits. By contrast, the cultural expressions and traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples are often created collectively, passed down orally among generations, and may in some instances be undertaken for spiritual rather than economic purposes. 53. As articulated by representatives of indigenous peoples at the thirty-third session of the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee, held in June 2017, it is imperative that any further 13