E/2010/43 E/C.19/2010/15 56. The Permanent Forum posed a broad range of questions to UNFPA, addressing the following key issues: (a) The impact of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on the work of UNFPA; (b) The impact of political conditions on the Fund’s opportunities to advance indigenous women’s rights; (c) The integration of traditional knowledge and culturally sensitive approaches to health services in the countries in which UNFPA is active; (d) The Fund’s role in the empowerment of indigenous women’s organizations and networks; (e) UNFPA contributions to data collection, dissemination and use of such data; (f) The Fund’s role in HIV/AIDS prevention among indigenous peoples, in particular young people; (g) efforts. UNFPA integration of indigenous peoples into its poverty-reduction Observations on the dialogue 57. The Permanent Forum recognizes that UNFPA has been an important partner for it, as well as an active participant in the Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Issues. The Permanent Forum congratulates UNFPA for its important role in advancing indigenous women’s human rights and reproductive health, including its efforts to reduce maternal mortality and to empower indigenous women to advocate for their own reproductive rights. 58. The Permanent Forum commends UNFPA for its intensified efforts to promote and mainstream a culturally sensitive approach into its programmes at the global, regional and national levels, in line with the recommendations of the Permanent Forum. The Permanent Forum notes with appreciation the Fund’s promotion of intercultural health models. UNFPA intercultural approaches in Viet Nam, Bangladesh, Panama, Mexico, Peru, the Plurinational State of Bolivia and Ecuador, stressing the leadership role of indigenous women at the national and regional levels, were highlighted during the in-depth dialogue at the eighth session of the Forum. 59. The Permanent Forum commends UNFPA for its emphasis on the participation of indigenous women in its programmes. The Fund’s approach in this regard during the dialogue was summed up by the phrase “Nothing about you without you”. The Permanent Forum also notes with appreciation UNFPA efforts to strengthen indigenous women’s networks in South America. 60. The Permanent Forum commends UNFPA for its efforts at the regional and country levels to collect disaggregated data and develop and disseminate quantitative and qualitative studies on the situation of indigenous peoples, focusing particularly on the rights of indigenous women and girls and its efforts in several countries to ensure that indigenous issues are adequately reflected in national censuses. The Permanent Forum also welcomes the Fund’s promotion of the collection and use of disaggregated data to support Governments in designing and 40 10-36959