A/HRC/30/41/Add.1 concerning a lack of personal security, an increase in the number of indigenous street children and human trafficking, especially in border areas. 55. In order to overcome this distressing situation, urgent and effective public policies must be put into place. However, the Government ’s 2014-2030 National Development Plan does not refer specifically to indigenous peoples or to their rights, nor is there any indication that the Plan was formulated in conjunction with indigenous peoples on the basis of a participatory or consultative process. 56. The Special Rapporteur received extensive information about the various social programmes of the Secretariat for Social Action, whose beneficiaries include indigenous persons. The Tekoporá Programme provides cash transfers to families living in extreme poverty who meet certain conditions. In 2014, the prog ramme was expanded to include the indigenous communities of the Chaco, providing coverage for up to 80 per cent of these communities, or 10,000 persons, of whom 52 per cent are women. An assistance programme for fishers’ associations has benefited 529 men and 572 women from 12 indigenous communities. Five individual projects submitted by indigenous communities have been included in the Second Paraguayan Social Investment Programme (PROPAIS II), while an estimated outlay of US$ 250,000 under the Social Development Plan has benefited several indigenous communities in the Chaco region. There are plans to extend other programmes, such as the MERCOSUR Structural Convergence Fund (FOCEM) Yporá Project, to include indigenous communities. The Original Peoples Department is working with the Guaná community, which is at risk of extinction, and with indigenous communities in the “social regions” covered by the Secretariat for Social Action that are in the process of regularizing their titles to their lands. 57. According to the Secretariat for Social Action, the evaluation of the Tekoporá Programme’s impact on indigenous peoples has highlighted the need to make certain adjustments in order to give full effect to indigenous peoples ’ rights by incorporating a community dimension into the transfers and adapting conditions to the beneficiaries ’ needs. A first step towards reorienting the programmes and ensuring their effectiveness for indigenous peoples was the development of a consultation protocol, which is currently being considered for approval by INDI. 21 There are also plans to provide staff members of the Secretariat for Social Action with training in implementing the protocol and working with indigenous communities. 58. Compliance with the protocol may serve to correct some of the problems encountered in current programmes. However, certain structural problems must be resolved in order to ensure that such programmes have a real impact. There is a need for predictable and sufficient budgets (social spending in Paraguay is much lower than the regional average), and a human rights approach needs to be mainstreamed in all public policies concerning indigenous peoples. Inter -agency coordination also needs to be improved. Public policies will be much more effective if they are designed, monitored, implemented and evaluated with the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples. 59. In order to design public policies that focus on indigenous peoples, disaggregated data and indicators, including appropriate indicators for indigenous peoples themselves, are essential. The participatory and differentiated approach used by INDI in connection with the 2012 census may be considered a best practice for the collection of disaggregated data that are relevant for the formulation, in conjunction with indigenous peoples, of public policies that take into account their own priorities and visions of development. __________________ 21 14/24 SAS Protocol for assistance to the indigenous communities. GE.15-13734