A/76/162 literacy and numeracy skills, as well as more effectively be able to acquire fluency in other languages. Physical barriers to education, including the absence of schools or transportation, must in particular be addressed and as a matter of priority in the case of marginalized and vulnerable minorities and indigenous peoples. 84. Development initiatives that discount or ignore the impact on minority and indigenous communities can exacerbate their economic exclusion and marginalization and lead to growing inequality, and this is particularly true of minority and indigenous women. Especially in the case of resource-based development initiatives affecting or involving parts of the country where minority or indigenous communities are based, initiatives must include prior local public consultations, impact assessment studies that are focused on those communities and action plans on how local minority or indigenous communities will be prioritized in employment schemes and sharing of the project revenues and benefits in order to comply with a human-rights-based approach to development, in particular the prohibition of discrimination in the sharing of prosperity. The situation of and impact on minority women must always figure prominently in all of these areas. 85. The Special Rapporteur recommends that international, regional and national human rights institutions support the work of States to monitor and report on discrimination and inequalities, including by collecting disaggregated data on the most important horizontal inequalities and disparities, such as ethnicity, religion and language, in addition to gender. 86. The Special Rapporteur reiterates the 2007 recommendations of the Independent Expert on minority issues that international development agencies: (a) Adopt policy guidelines on minority issues and their human rights which specifically address the particular barriers and discrimination faced by persons belonging to minorities, in addition to indigenous peoples; (b) Build institutional capacity and knowledge on the situation of minorities in respect to poverty and other human development indicators. This should include training for staff on the rights of minorities and applying human rights-based approaches to development; (c) Undertake dialogues with minorities on development priorities; (d) Collect disaggregated data on the impact on minorities of policies, programmes and projects; (e) Monitor budgetary support to ensure that resource allocations are appropriately targeting minorities or the regions in which they live; (f) Support States in the preparation of voluntary national reviews on the Sustainable Development Goals and all review procedures associated with these modalities to ensure that the impact of policies on minorities is appropriately covered; (g) Commission further research on the impact of development and poverty reduction strategies on minorities and ensure that country strategy papers for development cooperation reflect the situation of minorities and are published in minority languages; (h) 21-09902 Establish budget lines to support work on minority issues in development. 21/22