A/HRC/33/56 centred on the theme “ensuring that no one is left behind”. The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues was concerned that some of the Sustainable Development Goals could have a negative impact on indigenous peoples if their free, prior and informed consent was not respected, particularly with regard to clean energy projects. He emphasized the importance of disaggregated data as a means to properly monitor that no one, or no particular group, was left behind as States strove to achieve the goals. He encouraged States to ensure full participation of indigenous peoples in national plans to achieve the goals, in partnership with the United Nations system, and reminded participants that indigenous peoples had much to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals through their traditional knowledge and food production systems. 73. In the ensuing discussion, representatives of States and indigenous peoples reported on both promising practices and challenges regarding the Sustainable Development Goals. Promising practices included: taking into consideration the specificity of indigenous peoples’ relationship with their lands in national development strategies; data collection initiatives that involved the participation of indigenous peoples themselves; and technical assistance for agriculture. Challenges included: insufficient attention being given to the causes and consequences of climate change; a lack of attention to indigenous peoples’ world views in relation to the concept of poverty; and the implications of large-scale development projects, often financed by multilateral banks, to indigenous peoples’ selfdetermined development and other rights. IX. United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 74. Chief Littlechild provided introductory comments to the discussion of Declaration, including good practices and strategies for the implementation of Declaration in the promotion and protection of the rights of indigenous peoples. emphasized the importance of this agenda item, as the tenth anniversary of Declaration’s adoption approached. the the He the 75. At its thirtieth session, the Human Rights Council had requested the Expert Mechanism to continue to undertake, with the assistance of OHCHR, the questionnaire survey to seek the views of States and indigenous peoples on best practices regarding possible appropriate implementation measures to attain the goals of the Declaration. Chief Littlechild introduced the draft report, highlighting that the responses from States tended to focus on positive steps taken in particular sectors, such as education, health and environmental policy, rather than reporting on areas that required improvement or on specific measures taken to evaluate progress in the overall implementation of the Declaration. Responses from indigenous peoples provided examples of advocacy, awareness-raising activities, training and capacity-building and translation of the Declaration into indigenous languages. 76. Chief Littlechild noted that, while progress was being made, more attention needed to be focused on action plans specifically aimed at implementation of the Declaration, where evaluation mechanisms could be put in place to measure advancements made over time. Concern was expressed about States’ reluctance to reference the Declaration in treaty settlement documents. He stressed the importance of tracking what progress had been achieved over the past decade, and what work remained, as the decade celebration of the adoption of the Declaration approached. 77. Ms. Tauli-Corpuz, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, provided a detailed report of her work over the past year, including country visits, thematic studies and good practices and participation in meetings of multinational global and 17