CRC/C/RWA/CO/3-4 (b) Strengthen effective coordination among all ministries to ensure that early childhood development programmes and services are integrated and harmonized, and that such services meet quality standards, are affordable and accessible for all children, including children in vulnerable situations. I. Special protection measures (arts. 22, 30, 38, 39, 40, 37 (b)-(d), and 3236 of the Convention) Children belonging to minority or indigenous groups 56. The Committee is seriously troubled by the State party’s non-recognition of the existence of minority and indigenous people, including the Batwa community, which leaves them with no legal status or recognition. Furthermore, the Committee is deeply concerned that Batwa children continue to experience severe marginalization and discrimination as many live in extreme poverty and lack access to basic services, including adequate housing, safe drinking water and sanitation, education and health care. The Committee is specifically concerned that: (a) Batwa communities, including children, have been forcibly displaced from their ancestral forest lands without consent or compensation and deprived of their traditional livelihoods, which has resulted in serious damage to their distinct lifestyles, livelihoods and culture; (b) Batwa children, specifically girls, experience significant obstacles to their right to education compared to other population groups, including very high dropout rates, low levels of enrolment, and poor education outcomes; and (c) There is an absence of official information and disaggregated data on Batwa children, including on their socioeconomic conditions, access to education, adequate standard of living, and health care. 57. The Committee recommends that the State party include information in its next periodic report on measures and programmes relevant to the Convention on the Rights of the Child undertaken by the State party and in follow-up to the Declaration and Programme of Action adopted at the 2001 World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, as well as the outcome document adopted at the 2009 Durban Review Conference. The Committee specifically recommends that the State party: (a) Grant Batwa children and families recognition of their special status, recognize their rights to the natural resources of the forests, and develop initiatives to reconnect them with their ancestral habitats and cultural practices, as recommended by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, the United Nations Independent Expert on minority issues and the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living; (b) Adopt all necessary measures to combat all forms of discrimination faced by Batwa children and take immediate steps to ensure that in law and practice, Batwa children have full and equal access to education, adequate housing, health care and all other government services without discrimination. In these efforts, the Committee calls upon the State party to ensure that adults and children from Batwa communities and civil society organizations representing Batwa communities are consulted; 15