CEDAW/C/60/D/48/2013 9. The Committee makes the following recommendations to the Sta te party: (a) Specifically to the authors of the communication: grant the authors appropriate reparation and adequate compensation commensurate with the seriousness of the violation of their rights; (b) In general: 37 (i) Expedite the constitutional review process and address the status of customary laws to ensure that rights guaranteed under the Convention have precedence over inconsistent and discriminatory customary provisions; (ii) Ensure that all discriminatory customary laws applicable in the State party, in particular provisions of the Local Customary Law (Declaration) (No. 4) Order, are repealed or amended and brought into full compliance with the Convention and the Committee’s general recommendations, including by district councils where applicable, with a view to providing women and girls with equal administration and inheritance rights upon the dissolution of marriage by death, irrespective of their ethnicity or religion; (iii) Ensure access to effective remedies by guaranteeing that courts will refrain from resorting to excessive formalism and/or unreasonable and undue delays; (iv) Provide mandatory capacity-building for judges, prosecutors, judicial personnel and lawyers, including at the local and community levels, on the Convention, the Optional Protocol thereto and the Committee’s jurisprudence, as well as on the Committee’s general recommendations, in particular Nos. 21, 28 and 29; (v) Encourage dialogue by holding consultations between civil society and women’s organizations and local authorities, including with traditional leaders at the district level, with a view to fostering dialogue on the removal of discriminatory customary law provisions; (vi) Conduct awareness-raising and education measures to enhance women's knowledge of their rights under the Convention, in particular in rural and remote areas; (vii) Put in place a coordinating mechanism in charge of the preparation of the State party’s observations on individual communications submitted under the Optional Protocol, as well as of the monitoring of the implementation of the Committee’s recommendations under the Optional Protocol. 10. In accordance with article 7 (4) of the Optional Protocol, the State party shall give due consideration to the views of the Committee, together wi th its recommendations, and shall submit to the Committee, within six months, a written response, including information on any action taken in the light of the views and recommendations of the Committee. The State party is also requested to publish the Committee’s views and recommendations and to have them widely distributed in order to reach all relevant sectors of society. __________________ 37 15-05820 With reference to the recommendations to the State party in its concluding observations of 1990, 1998 and 2008. See A/45/38, para. 99; A/53/38/Rev.1, part two, para. 230; and A/63/38, part two, para. 111. 13/13