A/HRC/41/46 (j) Ensure that monitoring mechanisms are in place after trafficked persons have accessed services, with a view to assessing to what extent their social inclusion process has been successful. 67. With regard to survivors’ empowerment: (a) Allocate adequate resources to empower survivors of trafficking to become agents of change within their families and communities; (b) Include survivors in the design, implementation and evaluation of all anti-trafficking interventions aimed at social inclusion, taking into account the fact that their participation must take place on a strictly voluntary basis; (c) Ensure that a transformative perspective guides services for survivors of trafficking, with a view to them achieving full independence and empowerment. 68. With regard to trafficked persons’ access to empowerment measures in the long term: (a) Combat stigma against trafficked persons for association with prostitution and/or failed migration projects, including in cooperation with civil society organizations, particularly women’s rights groups, trade unions, traditional and religious leaders, faith-based organizations and the private sector; (b) Provide trafficked persons with comprehensive and easily accessible information about protection services in a language they understand and at all stages of their recovery, in cooperation with civil society; (c) Ensure that the social inclusion of trafficked persons is non-conditional upon the initiation or the outcome of criminal proceedings, and takes place irrespective of the possession of legal residence status; (d) Ensure that trafficked persons are not criminalized, prosecuted or detained – and remove any criminal records – for unlawful activities in which they may have been involved as a direct consequence of their trafficking situation, and also to enable them to access health care, accommodation, education, the job market, social security and bank loans, among other things; (e) Ensure trafficked persons’ access to long-term medical services, including psychological and psychiatric services; (f) Ensure trafficked persons’ family reunification, if they so wish, and their residence status, as essential prerequisites for their social inclusion; (g) Provide trafficked persons with viable alternatives to exploitative conditions, by facilitating their access to the labour market, in cooperation with the private sector, in order to prevent further exploitation and retrafficking; (h) Adopt a gender-sensitive and child rights-based approach in all phases of the social inclusion process, with particular consideration for the child’s right to be heard; and design social inclusion programs for children, including unaccompanied and separated children, who are transitioning to adulthood; (i) Ensure that trafficked persons are not only provided with temporary shelter, but are also provided with the opportunity to access safe and affordable independent accommodation with no discrimination of any kind, giving due consideration to the specific needs of men and of transgender persons; (j) Invest more effectively in public–private partnerships in emerging sectors that could offer viable employment opportunities to survivors, such as through computer literacy, microcredit, financial management, foreign language learning, agriculture and food processing, and community services; (k) Consider reforming consular offices’ practices, by, inter alia, providing specialized training and resources to staff, to ensure adequate access by and support 19