A/HRC/41/10 training manual for health-care professionals and participants regarding violence against women, children, vulnerable and marginalized groups, 2017. 14. The Ministry of Education and Training had developed a number of policies with a view to promoting and implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In addition, the Government had maximized its commitment to implementing its policy on universal access to education for all children. In 2018, the Government had subsidized school fees by providing school grants for early childhood education and for students in Years 6 and 7 at primary school level. Moreover, in December 2018, Parliament had passed a budget to allocate school grants allowing free access to education for students from Years 8 to 10 at the secondary school level. 15. Acting through the Ministry of Justice and Community Services, the Government, as part of its efforts to address the rights of people with disabilities, had undertaken a review of all legislation in 2016 and provided recommendations for amendments to ensure compliance with the relevant Convention. The Government had lodged with Parliament in December 2018 the Correctional Services (Amendment) Bill, which contained provisions to ensure that the needs of detainees with disabilities were considered in correctional centres. Consultations had begun on proposed new legislation for people with disabilities. Some of the gains made with regard to people with disabilities had been the opening of a new office for the Vanuatu Society for People with Disability in Port Vila; the development of the National Disability-Inclusive Policy; the recruitment of disability officers at provincial headquarters; the employment of persons with disabilities in government ministries and the private sector; improved collaboration between the Disability Desk and stakeholders; and the participation of persons with disabilities in the Paralympic Games. 16. Since Vanuatu was a small island developing State, climate change was a factor that affected the Government’s development plans. The Government had established a fullyfledged Ministry of Climate Change in April 2013 as part of its efforts to streamline the country’s responses to the effects of climate change. That body’s primary mandate was to address and deal with the effects of climate change and impacts of natural disasters in Vanuatu. The Ministry of Climate Change was currently implementing the National Policy on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction, 2016–2030, which had been purposely developed to map out all government agencies and non-governmental stakeholders in ensuring that the country’s communities, environment and economy were resilient to the impacts of climate change and disaster risks. The policy ensured that risks were identified, assessed, reduced and managed, and had been formulated following a risk governance assessment to analyse the country’s climate change and disaster risk governance capacity and needs at both the national and the local levels. It sought to strengthen existing capacity at the national, provincial and area council levels, drawing on the country’s rich heritage and traditional knowledge and the lessons learned from the broad range of initiatives regarding climate change and disaster risk reduction. In addition, the National Sustainable Development Plan addressed climate change policies under its environment pillar goal 2, on encouraging “blue-green economic growth”, for an economy that fostered sustainable growth and development through low-impact industries and modern technologies to ensure the well-being of future generations. 17. In 2018, the Government had conducted the mass evacuation of the entire population of Ambae due to serious volcanic activities on that island. The Government’s National Displacement Policy (2018) was aimed at better managing and coordinating such processes in the context of future disasters. 18. Vanuatu had recently faced some issues relating to forced labour and human trafficking. While section 7 of the Employment Act prohibited forced labour, Vanuatu was committed to reviewing and developing specific legislation to better address human trafficking and forced labour. 19. Further achievements that the Government had accomplished since the second review cycle, in 2014, with the generous support of its bilateral and multilateral partners included the establishment of a Gender Officer in the Department of Women’s Affairs and the Ministry of Health; the endorsement of the National Child Protection Policy, 2016– 2026, and the Child Safeguarding Policy, 2017–2020; the establishment of an external 4