A/69/267 place over the past three years, including work carried out by the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other busines s enterprises and the Forum on Business and Human Rights. In this context, there has been some progress in terms of raising the concerns of indigenous peoples, especially in relation to extractive industries. The participation of indigenous representatives in the processes of the Working Group and the Forum should continue and financial support should be provided for this purpose. 46. The Special Rapporteur also emphasizes the importance of ensuring that the sustainable development goals and the post-2015 development agenda are inclusive and reflective of indigenous peoples’ development aspirations, bringing together economic, social, cultural, environmental and climatic concerns, to be addressed in an integrated manner. Invisibility of the situation of indigenous peoples and disaggregated data 47. The Special Rapporteur is deeply concerned that the particular situation of indigenous peoples often remains invisible within national statistics. This is true in many developing countries, which often have weak institutional capacities for data collection. Further complicating this situation is the fact that in many of these countries, particularly in Africa and Asia, the formal identification and recognition of indigenous peoples is still pending, and disaggregation of data based on ethnicity may be considered, for various reasons, to be controversial. Given the importance of this issue, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues has made it an ongoing area of focus, and has issued numerous recommendations for States, indigenous organizations and United Nations agencies, in particular the Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, to collaborate on data disaggregation and collection. 12 48. The existence of relevant information is a vital precondition for devising adequate policy responses for addressing inequalities and for monitoring the effectiveness of measures to overcome discrimination, both within and between countries, as well as for identifying additional gender-based discrimination. In this context, the Special Rapporteur commends the efforts of the Economic Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to “democratize information”. With the support of a number of United Nations agencies, donor agencies and private funders, the Commission has established a comprehensive database, which provides sociodemographic data on indigenous peoples and Afro -descendants in the region, including data disaggregated by sex and age, as well as data on internal migration, health, youth and the territorial distribution of inequalities. 13 The basis of much of this impressive work is the inclusion by most countries in Latin America of an “indigenous identifier” into their 2000 census round, thus building data through the self-identification of individuals as being a member of an indigenous community. 14 49. The Special Rapporteur notes that some individual countries have made similar progress with regard to disaggregation of data in their population and __________________ 12 13 14 14-58847 See E/2007/43-E/C.19/2007/12, para. 123. See the ECLAC database at: http://www.cepal.org/cgi-bin/getprod.asp?xml=/celade/noticias/ paginas/0/36160/P36160.xml&xsl=/celade/tpl/p18f.xsl&base=/celade/tpl/top-bottom_ind.xsl. See Sistema de Indicadores Sociodemográfico de Poblaciones y Pueblos Indígena de América, CELADE/CEPAL — Fondo Indígena: Guia para el usuario, available at: http://celade.cepal.org/ redatam/PRYESP/SISPPI/SISPPI_notastecnicas.pdf. 13/23