A/HRC/33/56 indigenous peoples, States, the private sector and other stakeholders. This may include technical assistance, awareness-raising and capacity-building activities; (e) The number of members of the Expert Mechanism should be increased to seven, with one expert coming from each of the seven indigenous sociocultural regions; (f) The Expert Mechanism should be mandated to prepare an annual global report on developments regarding the implementation of the Declaration, focusing on emerging good practices; (g) Cooperation and interaction should be enhanced between the Expert Mechanism and the Human Rights Council, including through meetings with the Bureau of the Council, its President and regional groups; (h) The Expert Mechanism should contribute to the work of the Working Group on Business and Human Rights, including its global and regional forums, with a view to enabling constructive dialogue between businesses and indigenous peoples; (i) Cooperation and interaction should be enhanced between the Expert Mechanism and the United Nations human rights system in general, including the treaty bodies and the universal periodic review process; (j) The Expert Mechanism should enhance its collaboration with national human rights institutions, including through joint activities at national and regional levels; (k) Adequate resources and secretariat support should be allocated for the expanded mandate of the Expert Mechanism, including for its increased intersessional activities. 8. The Expert Mechanism further proposes to the Human Rights Council that it complete the review of the Expert Mechanism’s mandate and introduce the necessary changes at the Council’s thirty-third session. Proposal 4: Participation of indigenous peoples within the United Nations 9. The Expert Mechanism: (a) Proposes to the Human Rights Council that it make further efforts to enhance the participation of indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions in its work, including in its meetings that are focused on the rights of indigenous peoples (in particular the dialogue with the Expert Mechanism and the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples and the annual half-day discussion on the rights of indigenous peoples); (b) Proposes to the Human Rights Council that it urge the General Assembly to pursue decisively the ongoing process to enable the participation of indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions in meetings of relevant United Nations bodies on issues affecting them, building on the compilation prepared by the advisers to the President of the General Assembly on the question of enhancing indigenous peoples’ participation at the United Nations; (c) Proposes to the Council that it support the continuation of the work of the advisers to the President of the General Assembly, two of whom are from Member States and two of whom are from indigenous peoples; (d) Encourages the Council to request the Expert Mechanism to report before the General Assembly at its seventy-first session, in its discussion of implementation of the paragraph 8 of the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the Assembly known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples (contained in Assembly resolution 69/2), on the Expert Mechanism’s contributions and advice on the issue of indigenous peoples’ participation. 5

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