E/CN.4/1999/15/Add.1 page 7 (c) Community rehabilitation programmes; (d) Institutional reform, designed to prevent human rights abuses from happening again; and (e) Urgent interim reparations. 19. The Truth and Reconciliation proposals were developed around several principles, which were that reparations should be development-centred, simple and efficient, appropriate in cultural terms, community based, and must promote healing and reconciliation as well as capacity-building in communities. 20. Individual reparation will take the form of a scheme under which each victim of a gross human rights violation will receive an individual annual financial grant for a period of six years. Most of the value of the grant would acknowledge the suffering caused by the gross violation of human rights experienced by a victim. 21. Symbolic reparation conjures up images of monuments, but could take the form of a variety of other measures. It may include the erection of memorials and monuments on both national and local levels, as well as the identification of a “Day of Remembrance”. On a more individual level, symbolic reparation could also mean assistance to individuals in obtaining death certificates and finalizing outstanding legal matters, or clearing their names from criminal records. Victims may be eligible to have relatives exhumed or buried, or in some cases to receive a headstone or tombstone. 22. The Commission has further recommended that streets and community facilities should be renamed to reflect and honour individuals or events in communities. It identified a need for culturally appropriate ceremonies. Community rehabilitation programmes hinge on the main policy principle that reparation should be development centred, to empower individuals and communities to take control of their own lives. It therefore implies the provision of sufficient knowledge and information about available resources to victims through a participatory process. Among the categories of community rehabilitation recommended are health care, mental health care, education and housing. A programme to demilitarise the youth who have come to accept violence as a way of resolving conflict is included under emotional health care, as is a multi-disciplinary programme involving all ministries and departments to resettle the thousands of “internal” refugees driven from their homes due to political conflict. 23. Institutional reform overlaps with the broader aims of the Commission, including measures designed to prevent the recurrence of human rights abuses, for implementation in a wide range of sectors such as the judiciary, media, security forces and business; this reform should contribute to the development of a human rights culture in South Africa. The urgent interim reparation component of the Commission’s reparation and rehabilitation programme is aimed at providing limited financial resources to people in urgent need to enable them to access appropriate services and facilities. 24. The Commission has received around 15 000 statements from victims of human rights abuses or their parents, and 7 000 applications for amnesty. It has heard