E/2018/43 E/C.19/2018/11 105. The Permanent Forum encourages States to directly reference and incorporate into their negotiation policies and frameworks for treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and mechanisms for free, prior and informed consent. Future work of the Permanent Forum, including issues considered by the Economic and Social Council and emerging issues 106. The Permanent Forum welcomes publication of Local Biodiversity Outlooks, as a collaborative effort of the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity, the Forest Peoples Programme and the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, and looks forward to its second edition, to be published in 2020. 107. The Permanent Forum supports the strengthening and further application of community-based mapping, monitoring and information systems as complementary evidence bases for assessment and monitoring of the 2030 Agenda, the Paris Agreement and the post-2020 biodiversity framework, and as tools for community governance and self-determined development. 108. The Permanent Forum urges Governments and donors to support communitybased monitoring and information systems, citizen science and the democratization of information technologies, as complementary to national and global statistical and information systems, and to prioritize capacity-building and funding and for such initiatives. 109. The Permanent Forum welcomes the approval of the approach to recognizing and working with indigenous and local knowledge adopted at the fifth plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, in 2017, and the establishment of a participatory mechanism for indigenous peoples and local communities in the work of the Platform. The Forum urges the identification of procedures and methodologies for effective implementation of the approach and the participatory mechanism, in partnership with indigenous peoples. 110. The Permanent Forum congratulates the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for its work to assist indigenous peoples and States in the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security, and for the issuance of a technical guide on commons and communal lands and resources. The Forum encourages FAO to continue enhancing the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines with tailored capacity development for indigenous peoples. 111. The Permanent Forum recommends that FAO create a technical working group on the collective rights of indigenous peoples to lands, territories and resources, which will provide technical outputs and publications informing indigenous peoples and the Forum. 112. The Permanent Forum requests FAO to enhance the participation of indigenous peoples and representatives from the Forum in the work of the Committee on Agriculture, the Committee on Forestry, the Committee on Fisheries, the Committee on World Food Security and the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. 113. The Permanent Forum welcomes the adoption by the Green Climate Fund of the Indigenous Peoples Policy and the Environmental and Social Policy, as well as the establishment of the Indigenous Peoples Advisory Group by the Fund, and encourages the Fund to support specific capacity-building programmes for indigenous peoples as part of the readiness and preparatory programme to ensure their full and effective engagement with the Fund at all levels and in all activities. 20/26 18-07701

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