A/HRC/6/15 page 15 communities. The State Government allocates funds for the training and remuneration of teachers; the Panchayat manages the programme funds, and the relevant community is responsible for the implementation and evaluation of the system as a whole. To achieve the goal of universal primary education, the communities have the right to demand that a school be set up (for 25 children, in the case of indigenous communities). Among the positive lessons learned from this experience is the high level of participation of the communities themselves, and the recognition of the role of civil society as a catalyst for change in public policy. Both factors, and a favourable political context, were key to ensuring the justiciability of the right to education, as well as the self-sustainability of the process, since the authorities do not depend on donor funds. 41. In the area of health, the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) helped set up the Jambi Huasi health clinic, which has acquired great importance for Quechua communities in Ecuador. A central aspect of this programme was the emphasis on transforming public services into community services, thus taking better account of the needs and priorities of indigenous communities. This process has made it possible to incorporate indigenous knowledge into health services, and to provide traditional medicine alongside modern medicine, including by making a pharmacopeia of medicinal plants available to traditional healers. 42. This type of approach has also been adopted in national poverty reduction plans. For example, the Western Uplands Poverty Alleviation Project (WUPAP) in Nepal was one of the first projects to apply a human rights-based approach to matters relating to indigenous communities and Dalits. The project, a joint initiative of IFAD and the Government of Nepal, promotes food security through the establishment of grassroots organizations, for example, which later take a key role in mobilizing resources and fostering the accountability of government entities. While the sectors in which these organizations operate are marginal, the project has made significant progress in the development of infrastructure and public services and of alternative productive activities. In its first two years, this project has reached more than 20,000 persons in 4,000 households. F. Territorial control 43. One of the basic principles of a human rights-based approach to development is the indivisibility and interdependence of human rights. Indigenous peoples have constantly and consistently drawn attention to the importance of their “spiritual relationship with their traditionally owned or otherwise occupied and used lands, territories ... and other resources and to uphold their responsibilities to future generations in this regard”, as reflected in the text of the Declaration (art. 25). Respect for the rights of indigenous peoples to ownership of, control over and access to their traditional lands and natural resources is a precondition for the enjoyment of other rights such as the rights to food, health, adequate housing, culture and free exercise of religion. The increasing urban drift of many of their members or their migration to other countries do not contradict, but rather reinforce the need to ensure the territorial control of indigenous communities as a part of development, to which migration, in many cases, is merely a desperate alternative. 44. A well-established principle in international instruments and jurisprudence is that the right of indigenous peoples to their traditional lands and territories is a corollary of States’ duty to give effect to those rights by demarcating and registering the territories, with due respect to the