Recommendations A/HRC/33/51/Add.2 Measures taken/current situation Level of implementation and observations (to be completed by the WGEID) The Office for Reparation under Section 11 (1) (j) stipulates as one of the functions of the office, the provision of psychosocial support for aggrieved persons who appear before the Commission. hopes it can promptly begin to provide psychosocial support as envisaged by the Act. Situation during the visit A/HRC/33/51/Ad d.2 ITJP While recognising that the violations experienced extend beyond the current disappearance and straddle decades. We found multiple generations have experienced violations – often a young torture survivor today will have a sibling who disappeared in 2009 and a father who died or disappeared during the IPKF period in the late eighties. (e) Establish mechanisms that provide for social allowances or appropriate social and medical measures for the relatives of disappeared persons in relation to the physical, mental and economic consequences resulting from the absence of the disappeared; OMP In its Interim Report, the OMP made six recommendations regarding interim relief for families of the missing and disappeared. In making its recommendations the OMP emphasised that acceptance of interim relief measures cannot be regarded as a waiver of the right to adequate, prompt and effective reparation for the damage caused and the right to seek judicial remedies for accountability. The OMP made interim relief recommendations relating to a financial aid program, debt relief programme, housing development programme, educational support program, vocational training and livelihood development programme and an employment quota.113 The OMP further recommended that such proposals should focus on providing relief to the most vulnerable, including those who are in situations of poverty, single headed households, and those with vulnerability levels based on the presence of children, caring for persons with disabilities or having disabilities themselves, special care for the elderly persons and victims of sexual violence. 83 113 OMP Interim Report, above n 2, para 45(a),(b),(c), (d), (e), (f). A/HRC/42/40/Add.1 In March 2019, the Government proposed the allocation of 500 million Sri Lankan Rupees in the 2019 Budget to support families of missing and disappeared persons, including members of the armed forces and police identified as missing in action, who have obtained CoAs. As part of the relief offered, the Government will award Rupees 6000 per month to support families of all missing persons who have obtained a CoA, until final reparations is provided by the Office for Reparations. Additionally, the government will provide families of the missing and disappeared preferential access to relevant “Enterprise Sri Lanka” Loan Schemes. The Working Group welcomes the OMPs recommendation for interim relief which is separate from reparations, the provision of funds in the 2019 budget to support families of the disappeared and that support will be awarded to families in possession of a certificate of absence. However, the Working Group calls for further efforts to ensure that all families of disappeared persons are able to access social allowances or appropriate social and medical measures.