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individual funding should enable persons with disabilities to effectively access support
of appropriate quality;
(f)
Design support systems so that they enable direct choice and control to
be exercised by persons with disabilities;
(g)
Ensure that eligibility criteria for accessing support do not discriminate
against persons with disabilities on any grounds and that disability assessments, when
established, take into consideration the barriers affecting a person’s participation and
not only her or his impairment;
(h)
Adopt a plan of action with clear timelines and concrete benchmarks for
the deinstitutionalization of persons with disabilities, including a moratorium on new
admissions to institutions;
(i)
Ensure appropriate safeguards at and independent monitoring of all
public and private facilities and programmes providing support to persons with
disabilities;
(j)
Actively involve and consult with persons with disabilities and their
representative organizations in all decision-making processes related to the provision
of access to support;
(k)
Progressively increase the allocation of funds to ensure access to support
for persons with disabilities and refrain from adopting any retrogressive measures
that directly or indirectly affect the access of persons with disabilities to support;
(l)
Encourage international cooperation actors, including international nonprofit organizations, to carry out research on and provide funding and technical
assistance for the provision of support for persons with disabilities, and refrain from
implementing or supporting projects that contravene the Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities.
92.
The Special Rapporteur also recommends that the United Nations, including all
its programmes, funds and specialized agencies, adequately consider the obligation to
ensure access to support for persons with disabilities in all its work, including when
assisting States in the implementation of mainstream policies and programmes, and to
increase its capacities to provide technical guidance in this regard.
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