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legislative officials and Adivasi Janajati representatives should be part of this programme.
An important initial step in this direction is the establishment and work thus far of the
Task Force on Implementation of ILO Convention 169.
79. Within the framework of this programme, proposals for legislative reforms should be
developed, and the relevant Government ministries and agencies should review their
administrative practices, regulations and policies, in order to adopt the measures necessary
to ensure conformity with Convention 169 and the Declaration throughout all institutions
of State.
80. Related to the foregoing, a comprehensive initiative should be developed to educate
and raise awareness among Government officials, legislators, members of the judiciary and
other stakeholders on Convention 169 and the United Nations Declaration.
81. The National Human Rights Commission should in its structure ensure the
participation of indigenous peoples’ representatives and be given an explicit mandate to
monitor indigenous peoples’ individual and collective rights.
82. The official list of Adivasi Janajati should be open to amendment in order to ensure
the inclusion of all such indigenous groups in the relevant consultations and in the
programmes aimed at benefiting indigenous peoples.
83. The Government should make efforts beyond those already in place to ensure that
birth and citizen certificates are issued for indigenous people, in particular for those
residing in the remote areas of the country.
84. National census data should include disaggregated information organized by
categories of indigenous ethnicity or nationality, and referenced in relation to gender,
taking into account the criterion of self-identification, in order to promote accurate
understanding of indigenous peoples’ situations and the development of appropriate,
gender-sensitive programming.
85. Quota or reservation policies should be strengthened or consolidated to ensure access
by members of marginalized indigenous communities to employment in civil service and
public institutions.
Constitution-making process
86. In order to provide the highest safeguards for the collective and individual rights of
the Adivasi Janajati, those rights should be explicitly incorporated into the new
constitution in accordance with the international standards to which Nepal has committed.
87. In addition to existing means of representation in the Constituent Assembly, special
mechanisms should be developed for consultations with the Adivasi Janajati, through their
own representative institutions, in relation to proposals for new constitutional provisions
that affect them.