A/HRC/11/9 page 3 CONTENTS Paragraphs Page I. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................. 1 - 10 4 II. CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMMES .............................................. 11 - 16 5 III. CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMMES AS A COMPONENT OF SOCIAL PROTECTION SYSTEMS .......................................... 17 - 20 7 THE HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK FOR CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMMES .......................................................... 21 - 65 8 A. Ensuring an adequate legal and institutional framework for cash transfer programmes ..................................................... 29 - 33 10 B. Ensuring that cash transfer programmes reach the most vulnerable and the most excluded members of society .............. 34 - 43 11 C. Ensuring accountability, transparency and access to information .................................................................. 44 - 50 13 D. Ensuring meaningful and effective participation ........................ 51 - 54 14 E. Conditional versus unconditional cash transfer programmes ..... 55 - 60 15 F. The current economic crisis, cash transfer programmes and human rights ......................................................................... 61 - 65 16 V. GROUPS IN NEED OF PARTICULAR ATTENTION ................... 66 - 88 17 A. Women and gender equality ....................................................... 66 - 72 17 B. Children ...................................................................................... 73 - 83 18 C. Persons with disabilities ............................................................. 84 - 88 21 THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE AND COOPERATION ..................................................................... 89 - 94 22 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ............................ 95 - 99 23 IV. VI. VII.

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