A/HRC/20/21 career development, while providing incentives to make the teaching profession more attractive and valued; (e) Ensure financial resources for quality education: • Promoting quality education is a permanent challenge, and national investment therein should be a priority. States should ensure the necessary resources for the fulfillment of their obligation to ensure quality education. States could, as a matter of norm, set aside at least 2025 per cent of national budget allocations to education for improving quality in education, over and above the recurring expenditure on education. States should also devise necessary policies aimed at resource mobilization for quality, when regional and local bodies are responsible for basic education; (f) Focus on the right to quality education for women’s empowerment: • States should pay particular attention to the quality of education offered to girls and women. Emphasis should be placed on giving concrete shape to the provisions laid down in the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; (g) Enhance international technical assistance to Governments: • International entities, such as UNESCO, UNICEF and the World Bank, should be encouraged to continue their work in providing policy advice, support services and technical assistance to Governments in their efforts to respond to quality imperatives. UNESCO could develop guidelines for the establishment of standards for quality education; (h) Encourage further debate in international human rights bodies: • In view of the crucial role of quality education in nation-building, further debate on the right to quality education at the global level must be encouraged. The organization of a thematic discussion under the auspices of the Human Rights Council could go a long way in giving impetus to national action for achieving quality education; • The United Nations human rights treaty bodies – in particular the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women – should pay enhanced attention to quality in education in order to further emphasize State obligations in this regard; (i) Support research and reflection on quality in education: • Further research and reflections on the requirements for quality in education should be promoted by universities and education research centres. Civil society organizations should also contribute to this process by monitoring the situation of education and promoting initiatives that foster quality in education. 22