A/HRC/30/25 44. Likewise, the OHCHR regional office for South America in Santiago, along with other United Nations agencies in Chile, raised the need for inclusive government consultations with indigenous peoples, emphasizing the need to ensure the participation of indigenous women and children. 45. In the context of Nepal, OHCHR organized two stakeholder engagement meetings at the district level in cooperation with the Office of the Resident Coordinator to enhance dialogue between Constituent Assembly members, civil society actors and indigenous peoples’ representatives on promoting the rights of indigenous peoples in the country. Participation in decision-making processes were stressed as critical in preventing conflict and promoting dialogue. 2. Recognition, autonomous governance, economic, social and cultural rights 46. In Colombia, the office attended meetings of the inter-administrative working group, which constitutes a forum for the departmental government of the Amazon, associations of indigenous traditional authorities and environmental entities to pursue an intercultural dialogue and for indigenous peoples to articulate their demands in relation to their education and health systems, territory and government. With a view to illustrating difficulties in implementing the Victims and Land Restitution Law and sharing relevant expertise, three meetings were held with concerned institutions. The office in Colombia is also seeking to enhance coordination between the indigenous and the national health systems. It follows up on relevant cases, such as the death of indigenous children in Chocó and Río Sucio, and on lack of access to health care for indigenous peoples in the Amazon. It monitors incidents of human poisoning and territorial contamination with mercury and cyanide, as a result of gold mining. With a view to drawing attention to the critical health situation of indigenous peoples and Afro-Colombians and the extreme vulnerability of Hitnü peoples in Arauca, the representative of the office in Colombia and the ombudsman travelled to Chocó and Arauca in order to give greater visibility to the critical health situation of indigenous peoples and Afro-Colombians, as well as the extreme vulnerability of Hitnü peoples in Arauca. 47. The office in the Plurinational State of Bolivia continued to monitor the applications to the Plurinational Constitutional Court of six municipalities for autonomy statutes, four of which have been declared constitutional. 48. The office in Guatemala undertook missions to the interior of the country to assess the situation of the rights of indigenous peoples, especially in terms of agricultural labour and the exploitation of natural resources in indigenous territories in the departments of Huehuetenango, Quiché, Alta Verapaz, Chiquimula and the municipalities of San Juan Sacatepéquez and San Jóse Del Golfo. The office also provided technical assistance to the Gender and Multiculturalism Unit of the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources. In August 2014, the office organized several events on environmental and social impact assessments with different actors, including civil servants of the Ministry, the National Council of Protected Areas, the National Forest Institute and representatives of indigenous communities. Against that backdrop, a panel discussion on the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights was held. In addition, the office in Guatemala and the national human rights institution evaluated the “Zero Hunger Plan”, a government strategy aimed at the eradication of chronic and acute malnutrition in the country. In the same vein, the office accompanied various actors involved in the implementation of the National Court’s ruling on the violation of the right to food of five Chortí children that called for a protocol to establish the right to food at the administrative level. 49. In the context of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office has assessed that Pygmy peoples have very limited access to health and education as they live in remote areas of the country. 9