• What resources do minorities control or manage locally for service
delivery? Are these services gender-sensitive?
• Are minority groups able to monitor the delivery of basic social services?
• Do the main social indicators, such as hunger, child mortality rates,
health conditions and school enrolment, reflect any particular difference
between the conditions of mainstream society and those of minorities?
6. Promotion and protection of participation in development
• In assessments and project design, have the widest possible consultations
with the targeted groups been ensured?
• Have efforts been deployed to ensure the participation of the most
marginalized and vulnerable (e.g., women, people living with HIV/
AIDS, children, people with disabilities, youth, non-citizens), including the
creation of conditions to ensure their equal involvement in the process?
• Has the rights-based approach to development been implemented,
including to ensure the active, free and meaningful participation of those
affected by the development processes?
• Have the legitimate interests of minorities been taken into account in the
development of national policies and programmes, including in planning
and implementation?
7.
Promotion and protection of the right of minorities to maintain
associations
• Is the right to form associations and trade unions ensured by national
legislation and equally accessible to workers belonging to minorities?
• Is there any particular obstacle in the country to minorities fully enjoying
these rights?
• Have efforts been made by minority civil society organizations to
establish a network for the exchange of information and the coordination
of action?
8. Promotion of access to decent work and economic opportunities
• Do minorities have equal access to employment and income-generating
opportunities? What is the situation of women belonging to minorities in
this respect? Is there a tendency for women or men belonging to minorities
to be concentrated in certain occupations or sectors (e.g., domestic and
care work, construction, manufacturing in export-processing zones)? If
so, what are the working conditions that prevail there?
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