A/HRC/27/31 other personnel should have adequate capacity to understand and respect the evolving maturity of the child and the child’s right to be heard. 65. Functional accountability mechanisms that are enforceable not only through the courts but also through quasi- and non-judicial mechanisms such as national human rights institutions, children’s ombudspersons and subnational social accountability and complaints mechanisms are a critical element of a human rights-based approach to reducing child mortality and morbidity. 66. An audit of existing remedy and redress mechanisms can help to identify areas that require strengthening. 67. States are required to: (a) Provide, in law, policy and budgets, for a range of effective monitoring, claims and redress mechanisms available and accessible to children and their caregivers. They should include the provision of child-friendly information, advice, advocacy and access to the courts with necessary legal and other assistance;33 (b) Ensure and facilitate access to courts, as well as to quasi- and non-judicial accountability mechanisms, for parents and caregivers; (c) Ensure community participation in determining appropriate mechanisms for accountability, including remedy and redress, relevant to child health and survival; (d) Raise awareness about the applicability of claims relating to child healthrelated rights among lawyers, judges, parents and caregivers through training, education and, where necessary, support to families; (e) Ensure that where rights are found to have been breached there is appropriate reparation, including, where needed, compensation and measures to promote physical and psychological recovery, rehabilitation and reintegration;34 (f) Identify and remove any barriers to accessing mechanisms for reporting, remedying and redressing human rights violations in relation to child mortality and morbidity; (g) Ensure that independent accountability mechanisms can be used to hold incountry stakeholders as well as international cooperation partners to account. H. International cooperation 68. States have an obligation to promote and encourage international cooperation with a view to achieving progressively the full realization of the child’s right to health.35 International cooperation efforts should be rights-based in terms of the outcomes they seek to achieve as well as their own processes of design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. Coordination among different States giving and receiving cooperation assistance is required to ensure the complementarity of efforts to address child mortality and morbidity as well as their consonance with local priorities. 69. States and development partners are required to pay particular attention to children’s health priorities in resource-limited settings, in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Iinternational Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 33 34 35 16 Ibid. Ibid. Convention on the Rights of the Child, art 24, para. 4.