E/2019/43 E/C.19/2019/10 with the steering committee. It also welcomes the organization of the high-level informal-plenary meeting of the General Assembly thereafter on preparations for the International Year, convened in response to resolution 73/156 by the President of the seventy-third session of the Assembly at Headquarters on 1 February 2019. 21. The Permanent Forum takes note of national, regional and international initiatives, including the establishment of an entity with the name “Ibero-American Institute of Indigenous Languages”, requested at the twenty-sixth Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government, to be implemented by the Ibero-American General Secretariat, the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture and the Fund for the Development of the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean. 2 The Forum recommends that similar initiatives be implemented in other regions. 22. Considering the rapid rate of disappearance of indigenous languages and the fact that their reclamation and revitalization will require a sustained effort by indigenous peoples, Member States and the United Nations system, the Forum recommends that the General Assembly proclaim an “International Decade on Indigenous Languages”, to begin in 2021 or as soon as possible. 23. The Permanent Forum recommends that Member States formulate evidencebased policies, long-term strategies and regulatory frameworks, in cooperation with indigenous peoples, to ensure their support and the protection and revitalization of indigenous languages, including adequate, sustained support for bilingual, mothertongue education. The Forum also recommends that States facilitate the mainstreaming of indigenous languages. Allowing indigenous peoples to gain access to health care and other public services in their own languages will help to ensure their overall well-being. 24. The Permanent Forum urges UNESCO to develop an indigenous peoples ’ platform within the agency to ensure that UNESCO language programmes provide tangible benefits to indigenous communities and ensure that indigenous peoples are active in all aspects of the work of UNESCO. Follow-up to the recommendations of the Permanent Forum 25. The Permanent Forum encourages Member States to review recommendations made at past sessions, renew efforts at their implementation and report on progress made by 2021. It invites the United Nations system to support the States ’ efforts in this regard. 26. Expert members of the Permanent Forum take a proactive role in monitoring the implementation of the Forum’s recommendations. In this regard, the Forum’s database of recommendations is a useful working tool to measure progress. It is updated annually on the basis of information received from the recommendations ’ addressees. The Forum welcomes Yanapaq.info, developed by the Centro de Culturas Indígenas del Perú, as an additional tool to track progress in implementing the Forum’s recommendations and to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Declaration. The Forum encourages States, United Nations entities, indigenous peoples and other stakeholders to make a use of these tools. Implementation of the six mandated areas of the Permanent Forum with reference to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples __________________ 2 8/28 See www.segib.org/wp-content/uploads/CE-12-LENGUAS-IND--GENAS.pdf. 19-08162