E/2007/43 E/C.19/2007/12 Norway, the Swedish International Biodiversity Programme and IFAD for their financial support for the regional, thematic and international seminars on indicators relevant to indigenous peoples, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Millennium Development Goals, and urges other donors to contribute to this important work. 121. The Permanent Forum looks forward to the decisions of the ninth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on indicators and on the protection of traditional knowledge, innovations and practices and other related indicators in the strategic plan and biodiversity target for 2010. 122. The Permanent Forum calls on ILO to provide more information in the future on the status and trends in the practice of traditional occupations. 123. The Permanent Forum reiterates its call on States, indigenous organizations, United Nations agencies and academia to collaborate on national or subnational pilot projects on data disaggregation and collection, as recommended by the Asia regional workshop on indicators, and calls on the Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat to support those efforts. Taking note of the need for guidelines to ensure the use of culturally sensitive, objective and survey instruments, the Permanent Forum invites universities and other technical experts to address this need. 124. Recalling the inter-agency support group report on data disaggregation, the Permanent Forum calls for the implementation of the following recommendations: (a) The United Nations system should use and further refine existing indicators, such as the common country assessment indicators, Millennium Development Goal indicators, country progress reports, global monitoring instruments and human development indexes to measure the situation of indigenous and tribal peoples; (b) The national human development reports, produced through nationally owned, editorially independent processes, should systematically include case studies and should include disaggregated data on indigenous and tribal peoples. 125. The Permanent Forum welcomes the Regional Initiative on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Development of UNDP and, in particular, the pilot projects on gathering disaggregated data in the Philippines and Nepal. The Permanent Forum also recommends that the Regional Indigenous Peoples’ Programme continue this work in other countries. 126. The Permanent Forum welcomes the proposal of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, to collect information on best practices in adapting statistical inquiries to the needs of indigenous peoples. The Permanent Forum looks forward to the results of this project and invites the Institute to follow up on this work with the Forum through the Forum secretariat. 127. The Permanent Forum welcomes the activities carried out by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean through its Centre for Latin American Demography — Population Division, in particular its adoption of a rightsbased approach that considers indigenous peoples’ individual and collective rights included in the 2006 edition of the Social Panorama. The Forum recommends that the Commission: 07-37675 21