CRPD/C/GC/5 with the principles of universal design and legislative guidelines on construction, as outlined in the Committee’s general comment No. 2; (e) Provide all persons with disabilities with substantive and procedural rights to live independently within the community; (f) Inform persons with disabilities about their right to live independently and be included in the community in ways they can understand and provide empowerment trainings with the aim of supporting persons with disabilities to learn how to enforce their rights; (g) Adopt clear and targeted strategies for deinstitutionalization, with specific time frames and adequate budgets, in order to eliminate all forms of isolation, segregation and institutionalization of persons with disabilities; special attention should be paid to persons with psychosocial and/or intellectual disabilities and children with disabilities currently in institutions; (h) Create awareness programmes that tackle negative attitudes and stereotypes about persons with disabilities and secure community transformation in an effort to develop individualized and accessible mainstream services; (i) Ensure the participation of persons with disabilities, personally and through their representative organizations, in transforming support services and communities and in the design and implementation of deinstitutionalization strategies; (j) Design comprehensive policies and legislative guidelines and allocate financial resources for the construction of affordable and accessible housing units, the built environment, public spaces and transport, along with an adequate time frame for their implementation and sanctions which are effective, deterrent and proportionate for violations by public or private authorities; (k) Allocate resources to the development of appropriate and sufficient persondirected/“user”-led and self-managed support services for all persons with disabilities, such as personal assistance, guides, readers and professionally trained sign language or other interpreters; (l) Design tendering processes for providing support services for persons with disabilities living independently in the community that take into account the normative content of article 19; (m) Establish mechanisms to monitor existing institutions and residential services, deinstitutionalization strategies and the implementation of living independently within the community, bearing in mind the role of the independent monitoring frameworks; (n) Carry out the monitoring and implementation envisaged under article 19 in full consultation with and with the participation of persons with disabilities, through their representative organizations. 18