A/HRC/37/56 support for exercising their legal capacity. Demonstrations can provide legislators, policymakers and the wider community with valuable information about the functioning, cost and value of supported decision-making, thus contributing to a better legal and policy design. 68. Pilot initiatives should be implemented in collaboration with civil society organizations, particularly organizations of persons with disabilities who represent the full range of potential support users, including persons with intellectual disabilities, persons with psychosocial disabilities, persons with dementia, autistic persons and persons with brain injuries. That is in order to benefit from the outreach capacity of organizations of persons with disabilities, their knowledge of the local context and their mobilization and advocacy capacity (see A/HRC/34/58, para. 64). Supported decision-making experiences can also benefit from involving a broad range of local stakeholders, including authorities and service providers. Evaluation should be considered during programme design, including qualitative data that incorporates the perspectives of participants. C. Research 69. States should undertake or promote research in relation to legal capacity and supported decision-making. Research can offer legislators and policymakers valuable information and possible lines of action to guarantee the right to legal capacity and to implement supported decision-making. There is a need for more quantitative and qualitative data on the current use of different forms of substitute decision-making to understand the extent and impact of that human rights violation, including involuntary commitment to a mental health facility and forced treatment. Similarly, despite the increasing implementation of supported decision-making schemes, there is still a clear need for better quality data to inform subsequent initiatives and policy design. Research on supported decision-making has predominately concentrated on formalized forms of support, with little attention paid to other informal forms of support in decision-making, such as natural support networks or the support provided in the framework of peer support groups. There is a need to understand how all those forms of support operate and how they relate and contribute to the exercise of legal capacity of persons with disabilities. 70. Importantly, research on supported decision-making should respond to the rights of persons with disabilities and include the perspective of the disability community. In line with article 4 (1) (d) of the Convention, States should refrain from funding or engaging in any research project that is inconsistent with the right to legal capacity of persons with disabilities, as enshrined in article 12. Research should, wherever possible, be led by researchers with disabilities, be participatory and include the views of persons with disabilities and their organizations in all phases. Outcomes should be published in accessible formats, including easy-to-read versions. D. Access to justice 71. While the recognition of the right to legal capacity is fundamental to guaranteeing access to justice, it is also essential for the protection and restoration of legal capacity. 25 As required by article 13 of the Convention, States must take appropriate measures to ensure effective access to justice for persons with disabilities on an equal basis with others and promote appropriate training for those working in the field of administration of justice. States should also take all appropriate measures to ensure that persons with disabilities have access to procedural and age-appropriate accommodations, including supported decisionmaking, in all legal proceedings before, during and after trial. 72. States must ensure that all persons under substitute decision-making regimes have access to an effective remedy and consider a moratorium on new applications. They must also guarantee that all persons with disabilities who have experienced any form of 25 16 See Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, general comment No. 1, para. 38.