A/HRC/41/22 recommended: effective outreach, awareness-raising and access to comprehensible information; freedom of expression and assembly; protection of human rights and the rule of law for citizen participation; support to capacity-building; and provision of funds and resources for the participation and inclusion of indigenous peoples. 17. Finally, she recalled the limited participation of indigenous peoples mainly in Latin America and Africa due to the lack of awareness and funding. Indigenous peoples were increasingly participating in different international settings, such as the high-level political forum on sustainable development. Nevertheless, it was necessary to keep working to close the gaps and to fully include indigenous peoples, and their perspectives and aspirations, in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. 18. Mr. Conde, Co-Chair of the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus and youth focal point of the indigenous peoples major group, stated that the Caucus was born on the margins of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, it expanded under the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and was now part of the indigenous peoples major group. Its objective was to promote the participation of indigenous youth of the seven sociocultural regions. At the regional level, the Caucus and the major group, with the participation of the Latin American Indigenous Youth Network, had worked on a report on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in Latin America and the Caribbean from the perspective of indigenous peoples.2 The report had been presented at the high-level political forum in 2018. It analysed the implementation of the Goals in Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay and Uruguay. It was written by indigenous youth and guided by indigenous elders. 19. The report addressed the implementation of the Goals in the five countries mentioned above through a human rights perspective and an intercultural approach. It analysed the Goals through the lens of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and its recommendations and conclusions objectively analysed the persistent inequalities faced by indigenous peoples. The writing process was a challenge due to the lack of disaggregated data. Nevertheless, the participation of indigenous leaders and indigenous organizations enriched the report with first-hand information and recommendations. 20. Furthermore, Latin American States had taken significant steps in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. The five countries covered in the report had established inter-institutional commissions to coordinate the implementation of the Goals at the national level and developed working agendas within the government structure. The efforts of those commissions to include indigenous peoples in the implementation of the Goals had yet to pay off. This situation was due to the lack of access to information on the Goals. There was an urgent need to develop a comprehensive implementation framework for the Goals, including translation into indigenous languages and world views. 21. To conclude, Mr. Conde emphasized the importance of Goal 6 on clean water and sanitation, and Goal 11 on sustainable cities and communities. Both were scrutinized at the high-level political forum in 2018. Concerning Goal 6, it was particularly important to highlight that in some rural areas indigenous peoples lacked access to potable water services. However, they had access to rivers, lakes, springs and creeks, with which they had a spiritual relationship. Those water sources were threatened by climate change and resource extraction. Regarding Goal 11, migration towards cities was also affecting indigenous peoples, particularly indigenous youth. Mr. Conde held that in order to achieve the Goal an intercultural approach to cities should be considered. 22. Ms. Silva, Director of the UNDP Office in Geneva, stated that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was a human rights-based agenda and that the Sustainable Development Goals had substantial links to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The rights-based nature of the 2030 Agenda was reinforced by its powerful pledge that no one should be left behind and the commitment to reach those left furthest behind first. 2 4 Fondo para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas de América Latina y el Caribe, II Informe: Situación de la Implementación de los ODS en América Latina y el Caribe desde la visión de los pueblos indígenas (La Paz, 2018). Available at www.filac-info.org/informeods.pdf.