CRPD/C/GC/8 for the inclusive, comprehensive and transparent participation of organizations of persons with disabilities, including those experiencing intersectional discrimination.50 59. Lastly, the obligation to fulfil – containing the obligations to facilitate, provide and promote – requires States to adopt appropriate legislative, administrative, budgetary, judicial, promotional and other measures towards ensuring work environments are open, inclusive and accessible. 60. In order to meet the obligation to facilitate the right of persons with disabilities to work and employment, States parties are required to take positive measures to enable and assist persons with disabilities to undertake technical and vocational education and training, and to implement technical and vocational education plans to facilitate access to employment. States parties are also obligated to undertake or promote research and development of and promote the availability and use of new technologies, including information and communications technology, mobility aids, devices and assistive technologies, giving priority to technologies at an affordable cost.51 61. In order to meet the obligation to provide for the right of persons with disabilities to work and employment, States parties are obliged to recognize this right in national legal systems and to adopt a national policy and detailed action plan for its realization. The policy and plan should have sufficient resources allocated to it to increase the participation of persons with disabilities, particularly women with disabilities, in work and employment. States parties are also obliged to provide persons with disabilities with accessible information on the new technologies developed pursuant to the obligation to facilitate. 62. In order to meet the obligation to promote the right of persons with disabilities to work and employment, States parties should take steps to ensure appropriate education, information and awareness-raising campaigns, including gender mainstreaming, in both the private and public sectors. Awareness-raising campaigns should target private and public sector employers and employees, recruiters and employment agencies, and the general public, and should be in relevant languages and accessible formats for persons with disabilities. B. Core obligations 63. States parties have an immediate, minimum core obligation to ensure the satisfaction of, at the very least, minimum essential levels of the right of persons with disabilities to work and employment. 52 In the context of article 27, this core obligation encompasses the obligation to ensure non-discrimination and equal protection of employment.53 64. In its jurisprudence on article 5 of the Convention, the Committee has set out the immediate steps that States parties are required to take to achieve de facto equality and ensure non-discrimination on the grounds of disability in relation to the right to work and employment.54 In particular, in order to ensure the provision of reasonable accommodation pursuant to articles 5 (3) and 27 (1) (i) and to achieve or accelerate de facto equality in work and employment pursuant to article 5 (4), States parties should: (a) Facilitate the transition away from segregated work environments for persons with disabilities and support their engagement in the open labour market, and in the meantime ensure the immediate applicability of labour rights to segregated settings; (b) Promote the right to supported employment, including to work assistance, job coaching and vocational qualification programmes, protect the rights of workers with disabilities and ensure the right of workers to freely choose their employment; (c) Ensure that persons with disabilities are paid no less than the minimum wage and do not lose the benefit of disability allowances when they start work; 50 51 52 53 54 CRPD/C/DEU/CO/1, para. 10. Convention, art. 4 (1) (g). Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, general comment No. 3 (1990), para. 10. Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, general comment No. 18 (2005), para. 31. Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, general comment No. 6 (2018), para. 67. 13