A/HRC/13/29 engagement in the promotion of the implementation of the Convention. For example, this could include: scrutiny for compliance of existing national legislation, regulations and practices, as well as draft bills and other proposals, to ensure they are consistent with the requirements of the Convention; and provisions of technical advice to public authorities or other agencies in construing and applying the Convention, including on the basis of observations and recommendations and general comments issued by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. 65. Human rights impact assessments, as tools that measure the impact of policies or other interventions on human rights, could prove particularly useful to Governments in assessing what measures to adopt for the purpose of promoting implementation of the Convention.46 By way of reference, it should be noted that some treaty bodies have recommended that States parties conduct human rights impact assessments in relation to their treaty obligations. The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has recommended that human rights impact assessments “be made an integral part of every proposed piece of legislation or policy initiative”.47 66. Protection under the Convention can include a broad range of different activities that range from the investigation and examination of individual and group complaints to taking cases to court, to the conducting of inquiries and issuance of reports. 67. Monitoring the implementation of the Convention can be approached from multiple perspectives. On one hand, it can be achieved through assessing progress, stagnation or retrogression in the enjoyment of rights over a certain period of time. The development of indicators and benchmarks is a particularly effective way to monitor implementation, particularly with regard to the progressive realization of economic, social and cultural rights in the Convention.48 68. Another approach with which many human rights institutions are familiar is that of monitoring human rights violations, a common methodology of which is the collection or keeping of records of the complaints filed by alleged victims before relevant judicial or quasi-judicial complaints mechanisms. Considering the specific barriers persons with disabilities have traditionally faced in accessing justice, this data should be integrated with information on violations from other sources, such as civil society organizations and organizations of persons with disabilities participating in the framework. D. The participation of civil society 69. Article 33, paragraph 3, requires the involvement and full participation of civil society and in particular of persons with disabilities and their representative organizations in the monitoring process. This requirement further specifies the general principle of participation of persons with disabilities in article 3 of the Convention and the general obligation in article 4, paragraph 3, of the Convention to closely consult with and actively involve persons with disabilities through their representative organizations in the 46 47 48 GE.09-17748 See report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on implementation of economic, social and cultural rights (E/2009/90), paras. 35–38. Concluding observations on the report of the United Kingdom E/C.12/1/Add.19, para. 33; see also concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on the report of the Netherlands, CRC/C/15/Add.114, para. 13. OHCHR has made important progress in developing a conceptual framework of qualitative and quantitative human rights indicators and produced several reports in this regard. See for example HRI/MC/2006/7 and HRI/MC/2008/3. 15