Multilateral bodies and Assistance Agencies should:

• provide funds for applied research through pilot projects to determine optimal mechanisms for tourism development in a range of differing circumstances;
• assess their projects' effectiveness on local, sub-national and national levels involving all stakeholders and publish the results by the Earth Summit III in 2002;
• provide funds for capacity building and networking for indigenous peoples and local communities and for effective monitoring and evaluation of sustainable tourism projects and programmes;
• take part in a discussion forum on minimising leakage, with findings to be brought back to the finance discussion at CSD-8 in 2000. Possible outcomes include the development of a purchasing/procurement strategy for the tourism industry, local/ national investment strate-gies, improved mechanisms for informed choice by consumers, and a linking of aid with ca-pacity building in tourism-dependent areas.
• provide funds for community owned tourism development projects.