A/HRC/30/25 OHCHR office in Guatemala facilitated bilateral meetings with indigenous representatives and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to promote indigenous peoples’ participation in the preparatory activities for the World Conference. The OHCHR regional office for South America, in Chile, organized and participated in a national meeting of indigenous peoples towards the World Conference, within the framework of an inter-agency project with indigenous leaders. The meeting aimed at promoting the participation of indigenous leaders in the World Conference and in the drafting of the outcome document.2 6. In the lead-up to the World Conference, indigenous representatives focused on the need to introduce more inclusive United Nations processes and to accord indigenous representative structures a status that would facilitate their effective participation. As such, the outcome document includes a request for the Secretary-General to submit specific recommendations on how to enable participation of indigenous peoples at the United Nations, through the Economic and Social Council, to the General Assembly at its seventieth session. 7. Following the World Conference, the OHCHR office in the Plurinational State of Bolivia coordinated and initiated dialogues with various United Nations agencies to provide technical assistance in the design of actions, adaptation and implementation of commitments contained in the outcome document. 8. OHCHR continued to play an active role in various inter-agency initiatives, as it chaired the Support Group during the reporting period. The Support Group had engaged actively in the World Conference then supported follow-up to its outcome document, in which the Support Group’s important role in ensuring coordinated and coherent United Nations action in relation to indigenous peoples was recognized. 9. Supporting such follow-up was the main focus of the annual meeting of the Support Group, hosted by OHCHR in Geneva on 1 and 2 December 2014. The meeting brought together focal points for indigenous peoples’ issues from 17 agencies and benefitted from the active participation of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, the Chair of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the focal point of the Permanent Forum for the Support Group. 10. At the meeting, the Support Group began preparation of a system-wide action plan, to be developed in consultation and cooperation with indigenous peoples and Member States. The Support Group discussed lessons that could be drawn from other United Nations system-wide action plans, including those on youth and gender, and highlighted key considerations, such as the need to root the action plan in the Declaration, the importance of engaging United Nations regional and country presences and the relevance of the post-2015 development agenda. A small informal working group was set up to further advance work on the action plan in cooperation with indigenous and Member State partners. 11. The Support Group also took stock of various initiatives concerning the development and use of indicators related to indigenous peoples and is now working to build support for operationalizing agreed indicators, including with a view to their application in connection with the post-2015 development agenda. In addition, the Support Group examined how to encourage national human rights institutions to advance indigenous peoples’ rights at the national and international levels, in line with the outcome document of the World Conference. 2 General Assembly resolution 69/2. 3