A/HRC/11/9 page 25 (d) Mainstream gender perspectives: States must mainstream gender into the design and implementation of CTPs. They should assess whether programmes affect women’s decision-making authority and participation, and whether they perpetuate gender-biased stereotyped roles for men and women. Gender equality must also be one of the standards against which the performance of the CTPs are evaluated. States should also strengthen the collection of gender-disaggregated data about the impact of CTPs and ensure that their complaint mechanisms are gender-sensitive; (e) Integrate CTPs with broader cross-sectoral child-focused policies: States must ensure the full integration of CTPs into a broad range of social policies, and the provision of public services focused on children in other areas, in order to increase their impact on children’s lives. Special attention should be paid to some vulnerable groups of children, such as orphans, street children, children with disabilities, and child-headed households States are required to ensure that all children are treated without discrimination of any kind; (f) Integrate CTPs for persons with disabilities into social protection systems: States must ensure that CTPs for persons with disabilities are integrated into social protection systems. The use of CTPs as a measure to cover the substantive gaps that exist in various national social protection systems is acceptable as long as they are developed within a strategy that pursues the establishment of progressive universal schemes that will ensure the fulfilment of the right to social security. Particular measures to avoid stigmatization and further exclusion must be also devised in parallel to the transfers; (g) Ensure international cooperation to support the implementation of CTPs: International cooperation is required in order to develop and expand CTPs around the world. In particular, in situations of economic crisis, international support can play a decisive role in the protection of the most vulnerable through CTPs. Cooperation toward the implementation of CTPs must be guided by human rights standards and must particularly consider the long-term integration of the transfers into national social protection systems; (h) Expanding social protection systems: States should use the momentum created by the current financial crisis to build political consensus to ensure sufficient levels of public spending on social policies and interventions, including the expansion of social security, health and education coverage. -----