We will be having a meeting on Monday to discuss a number of issues on involuntary resettlement following a submission that was received on this issue, and I am certain we will be discussing all these in much greater details then. Indigenous peoples policy. Something that happened as a strong position from the indigenous peoples' leaders long before the consultation process happened was this concern that we maintain a freestanding indigenous peoples' policy and it not be merged with other social policies. Another, of course, is the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People should serve as a framework and as a reference point as we go forward. As many of you know, when our Indigenous Peoples Policy was last revised in 2005, the Declaration had not been adopted. Land rights of indigenous people--very strong views that this needed to be addressed. And then, improving the consultation, the use of local languages and the effectiveness of grievance mechanisms for indigenous communities. And, obviously, these are real thumbnail sketches of the points that were raised. With regard to the question of natural habitats and forests, my earlier comment, I noted there were a lot of people saying we should look more like the IFC where they integrated those two concepts, where we had ecosystem services as a standard, and a lot of that was the architecture as well as this question of the IEG report on forests. Monitoring and evaluation--quite consistent. We need to measure what we are doing better. We need to have clearer monitoring standards. We need to have better dissemination. And many people thought we should have third-party monitoring on a selective basis but use that to have communities engaged in particular. So what are the Next Steps? We have heard a lot, and quite clearly, what we heard is diverse, but we have got some things where there are
We will be having a meeting on Monday to discuss a number of issues on involuntary resettlement following a submission that was received on this issue, and I am certain we will be discussing all these in much greater details then. Indigenous peoples policy. Something that happened as a strong position from the indigenous peoples' leaders long before the consultation process happened was this concern that we maintain a freestanding indigenous peoples' policy and it not be merged with other social policies. Another, of course, is the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People should serve as a framework and as a reference point as we go forward. As many of you know, when our Indigenous Peoples Policy was last revised in 2005, the Declaration had not been adopted. Land rights of indigenous people--very strong views that this needed to be addressed. And then, improving the consultation, the use of local languages and the effectiveness of grievance mechanisms for indigenous communities. And, obviously, these are real thumbnail sketches of the points that were raised. With regard to the question of natural habitats and forests, my earlier comment, I noted there were a lot of people saying we should look more like the IFC where they integrated those two concepts, where we had ecosystem services as a standard, and a lot of that was the architecture as well as this question of the IEG report on forests. Monitoring and evaluation--quite consistent. We need to measure what we are doing better. We need to have clearer monitoring standards. We need to have better dissemination. And many people thought we should have third-party monitoring on a selective basis but use that to have communities engaged in particular. So what are the Next Steps? We have heard a lot, and quite clearly, what we heard is diverse, but we have got some things where there are
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