UNITED NATIONS • Forum on Minority Issues communities. Sensitization programmes should also be tailored for the majority communities with a view to eradicating existing stereotypes that may make employers reluctant to employ or promote minority women. 86. Governments should ensure that minority women realize their economic rights by developing policies geared to build their capacity and creating new employment opportunities for them as alternatives to traditional gendered occupations. Governments should also guarantee access of minority women working in the informal economy to non-contributory and contributory or insurance-based schemes. Minority women’s burdens can also be alleviated by providing sufficient child benefits, which would allow them to secure child care and pursue employment, as well as by making other key social services accessible to minority women in their communities. 87. Governments should implement policies and programmes, including gender-responsive budgeting, in regions where minorities predominantly live and ensure minority inclusion in gender budgets and programmes for women’s economic empowerment. 88. Certain measures, including the creation of specific projects for minority women in such areas as training, including in livelihood diversification, and support for business initiatives or quota systems to enhance their participation, could be envisaged to ensure the equal participation of minority women. Programmes for employers to assist them to fight discrimination or to raise cultural awareness, mentoring and positive action in recruitment should be considered. 89. Governments should facilitate minority women’s access to microcredit to allow them to establish small business initiatives, and design training programmes on how to effectively use microcredit and run businesses. 90. Minority women may face challenges relating to property rights and barriers to their ownership of land and property and their control of assets in some minority communities owing to certain factors, including traditional and customary practices and inheritance laws that assign property rights to men. This can leave minority women highly vulnerable. Governments should work together with minority communities, their leaders and minority women to eliminate traditional and cultural practices that discriminate against women and create inequalities in such areas as access to land and inheritance rights of minority women. Governments should also ensure that property and inheritance laws safeguard fully the rights of minority women. 91. A review of service provision to minority communities and needs assessment projects should be undertaken in order to reveal priority areas of concern relating to minority women. Governments should establish national programmes that facilitate access for all, including minority women, to basic health and social services without discrimination. 62 Compilation of Recommendations of the First Four Sessions 2008 to 2011