A/HRC/43/50/Add.3 94. The strategic objective of the programme is to support tasks aimed at facilitating access to culture, targeting a wide audience and fostering social inclusion. These activities should serve the purpose of achieving real, systemic and long-term effects in eliminating barriers to access to culture in the following dimensions: spatial, economic, socio-mental and competence, with particular emphasis on the needs of people from localities deprived of direct access to national resources of cultural goods, cultural institutions and artistic institutions. An important aspect is to take into account the needs of people with difficult access to culture and not involved in cultural life. The activities undertaken create conditions for the inclusion and cooperation of representatives of various social groups in the cultural life, gaining positive experiences in contact with culture and building the competence of the recipients of culture. The aim of the programme is to support non-commercial tasks, which provide free access to the cultural offer. An important assumption of the programme is to enable the participation and social integration of representatives of various social groups, including: school children and young people, the elderly, people with disabilities, environments which due to strong barriers (e.g. mental, cultural, legal) remain outside cultural and social life or have difficult access to it. An important element of the implemented tasks is establishing cooperation with other entities - schools, cultural institutions, nongovernmental organisations or care institutions - which will result in the creation of a coherent educational and cultural offer, contributing to social revitalisation and development of social capital. 95. Matters related to people with disabilities and their participation in cultural life are regulated in Poland by the resolution of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland of 1 August 1997. The Charter of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (M.P. of 13.08.1997, No. 50, item 475). Every year a report on the implementation of the provisions of the Resolution is drawn up, in which the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage participates. The reports are available in Polish:http://www.niepelnosprawni.gov.pl/p,121,informacje-o-realizacji-kartypraw-osob-niepelnosprawnych 96. The Polish government attaches great importance to the needs of people with disabilities not only in terms of access to cultural offerings, but in all aspects of life. The “Accessibility Plus” Programme is one of the five priority government actions. The programme was inaugurated in April 2018. 97. The aim of the Programme is to improve the quality of life and ensure the independence of life of all citizens, including the elderly and those with permanent or temporary restrictions. This is to improve the accessibility of public space, products and services in terms of architecture, information and communication. 98. The programme requires the involvement not only of the government but also of local governments, entrepreneurs, social organisations and residents It will be implemented until 2025. Ad Part III F Participation in civic space and cultural life - paragraph 85 99. Opinions on civic space condition in Poland and the Government activities regarding Non-Governmental Organizations presented in the Report are based on false presumptions and do not find any justification in the actual state of affairs. 100. The Report’s content is not consistent with the information provided to the pecial Rapporteur during meetings with diverse government bodies, in particular with the Plenipotentiary of Equal Treatment and Civil Society, Directors of Civil Society Department at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister and the National Institute of Freedom. 101. There is no legal act centralizing distribution of public Non-Governmental Organizations funding. There is no change in public funds distribution. The Act on the National Institute of Freedom transferred the management of public funds of the Civic Initiatives Fund (FIO) from the Department of Social Economy and Public Benefit at the Ministry of Family, Work and Social Policy to the National Institute of Freedom in order to make the FIO a tool that more effectively supports civic organizations involvement in the 19