A/HRC/44/46/Add.2 (d) Ensure that sufficient public resources are mobilized, allocated and effectively utilized to fully implement approved legislation, policies and programmes at the national and subnational levels of the State. Guarantee sufficient resources to sustain expertise on Hansen’s disease in the country and to ensure high quality research and teaching on Hansen’s disease at universities. Improve monitoring systems for Hansen’s disease, comprising data disaggregated by socioeconomic and demographic situation to support anti-discrimination policies and protection of specific groups that are more vulnerable to discrimination related to Hansen’s disease. Protection of specific groups 80. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government: (a) Actively include, through special measures if necessary, women, children and older persons affected by Hansen’s disease, and persons affected by disabilities related to Hansen’s disease in existing policies and programmes aimed at protecting women, children, older persons and persons with disabilities; (b) Foster empowerment, vocational and human rights training, and ensure freedom from want and violence for women affected by Hansen’s disease; (c) Ensure the rights of children affected by Hansen’s disease to survival and development, and ensure social protection for their families, guaranteeing that counselling and psychoeducational methods are available at health services, reasonable accommodation is available at schools, and that both services cooperate to protect children’s rights; (d) Regulate article 4 of Law No. 11520, ensuring effective access to assistive devices, support and reconstructive surgery. Take measures to reduce the burden of disability-related costs on persons affected by Hansen’s disease and ensure accessibility, reasonable accommodation, support, disability-inclusive social protection, and functional access to information as key disability rights. Provide community-based support services to older persons affected by disabilities related to Hansen’s disease; (e) Use former Hansen’s disease colonies as privileged sites for implementing memorialization processes and historical preservation. Guarantee that residents enjoy property and health rights, and access to basic infrastructure and services; (f) Provide for urgent symbolic and material reparation at the national level to individuals who as children were separated from their parents affected by Hansen’s disease and segregated from society. International cooperation 81. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government provide resources to register good and best practices from both the public and the private sectors in fighting discrimination, ensuring the full and meaningful inclusion of persons affected by Hansen’s disease and their family members. The aim is to streamline and implement a rights-based approach in the country, and to promote it at the international level in the spirit of Sustainable Development Goal 17, within SouthSouth relations and the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries. 18