A/RES/48/96 Page 24 7. Organizations should be permanently represented on the national coordinating committee or similar bodies. 8. The role of local organizations of persons with disabilities should be developed and strengthened to ensure that they influence matters at the community level. Rule 19. Personnel training States are responsible for ensuring the adequate training of personnel, at all levels, involved in the planning and provision of programmes and services concerning persons with disabilities. 1. States should ensure that all authorities providing services in the disability field give adequate training to their personnel. 2. In the training of professionals in the disability field, as well as in the provision of information on disability in general training programmes, the principle of full participation and equality should be appropriately reflected. 3. States should develop training programmes in consultation with organizations of persons with disabilities, and persons with disabilities should be involved as teachers, instructors or advisers in staff training programmes. 4. The training of community workers is of great strategic importance, particularly in developing countries. It should involve persons with disabilities and include the development of appropriate values, competence and technologies as well as skills which can be practised by persons with disabilities, their parents, families and members of the community. Rule 20. National monitoring and evaluation of disability programmes in the implementation of the Rules States are responsible for the continuous monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of national programmes and services concerning the equalization of opportunities for persons with disabilities. 1. States should periodically and systematically evaluate national disability programmes and disseminate both the bases and the results of the evaluations. 2. States should develop and adopt terminology and criteria for the evaluation of disability-related programmes and services. 3. Such criteria and terminology should be developed in close cooperation with organizations of persons with disabilities from the earliest conceptual and planning stages. 4. States should participate in international cooperation in order to develop common standards for national evaluation in the disability field. States should encourage national coordinating committees to participate also. /...