The Permanent Forum decides to appoint as Special Rapporteur Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, a member of the Forum, to conduct a study on the impacts of the global economic crisis on indigenous peoples, to identify measures and proposals for Governments and United Nations bodies, agencies, funds and programmes to address the impacts and to report thereon to the Forum at its ninth session, in 2010.
The Permanent Forum recommends that OHCHR aspire to adapt its organizational structures to the post-Declaration era by strengthening secretariat structures devoted to indigenous peoples’ issues.