Questionnaires: Gathering data at community and national level

• The national questionnaire assesses the level of recognition and implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) by States in a particular country. These questionnaires particularly look at laws, policies and programs.
• The community questionnaire assesses the implementation of UNDRIP on the ground, mainly looking at impacts for particular indigenous communities. They are designed for collective assessments on the ground, for example through community meetings, focus group discussion and participatory research.

Both sets of questionnaires are designed to be complementary and are designed so that you can answer one domain at the time or just select certain domains.

Key tools for monitoring

The questionnaires are key tools for all actors who want to monitor the level of respect, recognition and fulfillment of indigenous peoples' rights. While, in most cases, some facilitation will be needed for communities to use the questionnaires, the questionnaires can be used by people with no specialized human rights training. You can find online guidance on how to conduct a survey here:

The questionnaires build on a systematic analysis of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous peoples. If you want to understand the technical approach behind the questionnaires, you can read our technical description here.

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A set of guides to collect data

We recommend that you take a look at our guides if you want to use the questionnaires and facilitate a collective assessment. The guides provide an overview of which UNDRIP article, WCIP Commitments and SDG indicators the questions are linked to. You can also find a detailed guide on how to respond to each of the questions. We also offer you further conceptual clarification around the rights being monitored, for example, what do the UNDRIP articles mean.

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