Fred Ngeywo Kibelio of Chepkitale Indigenous Peoples’ Development Project (from the Ogiek community at Mt Elgon, Kenya) and Udom Charoenniyomphrai (from Inter Mountain Peoples Education and Culture in Thailand) participated at the 5th World Conservation Congress in Jeju, South Korea in September with the help of the Forest Peoples Programme (FPP). The FPP- sponsored motion 055 on UNDRIP in World Heritage Sites was passed with strong text, including emphasis on the need for Kenya to rectify the situation of the Endorois. The Whakatane Mechanism is now much more prominent within IUCN and has benefited from crucial feedback: it will now move into a second phase, which involves seeking funding to undertake more assessments and improving and finalizing the Mechanism with the aim of officially launching it at the World Parks Congress in Sydney in 2014 as a major IUCN initiative.