A/HRC/17/29 measures must respond to the need for making learning accessible for the most marginalized and vulnerable; (c) Ensure adequate resource allocation: Having regard to the specific needs of those who are victims of marginalization and exclusion as well as to the elimination of geographic disparities in the provision of education, States must ensure adequate allocation of resources where they are needed most. Resources should be earmarked adequately for fellowships, bursaries and grants, along with investments in social protection, bearing in mind the need to address marginalization and exclusion, and educational dimensions of poverty reduction strategies; (d) education: Support mechanisms promoting the enforcement of the right to States should ensure adequate support to independent national human rights institutions, as these can greatly contribute to identifying inequalities and addressing relevant situations of violation of the right to education’; (e) Take a human-rights perspective for moving forward the Education For All (EFA) agenda: In order to strengthen effectiveness in combating marginalization and exclusion as part of the EFA process, high emphasis should be placed on human rights obligations, and the responsibility of States to ensure the right to basic education for all. Such approach would provide leverage in moving the EFA agenda further and would foster the central role of education in accelerating progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals; (f) Promote integrated follow-up to concluding observations adopted by the United Nations human rights treaty bodies, and to recommendations to States resulting from the Universal Periodic Review of the Human Rights Council: Integrated follow-up to concluding observations adopted by the United Nations human rights treaty bodies and to recommendations emerging from the Universal Periodic Review of the Human Rights Council would contribute to better ensuring equality of opportunity in education; (g) Enhance international assistance and cooperation: Major inequalities in the enjoyment of the right to education occur in countries facing severe resource constraints. Thus, adequate and sustainable international assistance and cooperation also play a central role in the elimination of inequalities Assistance should be provided, bearing in mind human rights obligations and political commitments, including the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, as well as Goal 8 on developing a global partnership for development; International organizations, notably UNESCO and UNICEF, play a key role in the field of education. They can show the way forward by encouraging public debate on issues deemed to be of critical importance, and play an important role in promoting equality-enhancing policies and exchange of experiences on successful practices in the promotion of equality of opportunities. In that spirit, technical assistance to countries in the most difficult situation must be prioritized; 19