A/HRC/24/51 94. To attain the goals of the Declaration, States promoted capacity-building for indigenous peoples. Further, States encouraged efforts to strengthen indigenous peoples’ institutions, non-governmental organizations and self-government structures. There was also a recognized need to provide opportunities for indigenous peoples to participate as equal partners in the development process of the entire country. Australia pursues a policy of focusing on addressing indigenous disadvantage in areas such as education, health services, community development and community safety. 95. States also identified best practices in the area of education and promoting indigenous peoples’ languages and cultures. It is important to include indigenous languages within the education system. This includes developing strategies for implementing bilingual and intercultural education, which includes indigenous peoples’ participation. In addition, cultural centres can be created to promote indigenous cultures. Finally, some States recognized indigenous languages as official languages. 96. To attain the goals of the Declaration, some States indicated that a special budget for consultation with indigenous peoples was created. Other States provided funds to address issues facing urban indigenous peoples and undertake studies on employability. To this end, States indicated that international financial institutions will need to aid developing countries throughout the implementation process. IV. Responses from indigenous peoples, indigenous peoples’ organizations and non-governmental organizations A. Overarching implementation strategies 97. A number of indigenous peoples’ organizations indicated that they had developed strategies to implement the Declaration. In some cases, organizations, such as CANS and the San Support Organizations’ Association of Namibia, had themselves been created specifically as an implementation strategy. The Aldet Centre noted the establishment of Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore International, which focused on the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization to the Convention on Biodiversity, and World Intellectual Property Organization instruments on intellectual property and genetic resources, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions. 98. CAPAJ noted that it had developed an overarching strategy to attain the Declaration’s goals, basing its activities on indigenous peoples’ rights to equality and self-determination. One activity had included promoting the creation of a Parliament of Qollana Aymara and Quechua peoples across the Peruvian, Chilean and Bolivian borders to develop transborder relationships. 99. Some indigenous peoples’ organizations focused on awareness-raising among indigenous communities and their leadership, the legal community and academics, as well as broader society. IBA has pursued this objective by hosting workshops, posting material for accessible online use and producing an article on the implementation experiences in Canada. IBA cites the Declaration in all its advocacy work. NWU and NPMHR have developed implementation strategies to translate the Declaration into indigenous languages and awareness-raising campaigns. 100. Some indigenous peoples’ organizations noted that their implementation strategies included engagement with the United Nations system, in some instances bringing cases before treaty bodies and, in others, participating actively in international activities and mechanisms related to indigenous peoples’ rights, such as the Committee on the 17