A/HRC/50/25 (d) Foster community support systems and raise awareness of girls’ and young women’s activism, including by developing training programmes for families, communities and teachers on how to support and empower girls and young women in exercising their rights. 78. National human rights institutions, including children’s ombudspersons, should fulfil the following responsibilities towards the promotion, protection and empowerment of girl and young women activists; (a) Disseminate information about their institutional mandate and work, and support girl and young women activists in training and human rights education; (b) Promote the work of girl and young human rights defenders and educate the public, authorities and stakeholders about their positive role in society; (c) Work closely with girl and young women activists through child, youth and gender-centred approaches; (d) violations. Facilitate access to reporting and seeking redress for human rights 79. Donors should adopt measures that empower and support girl and young women activists in all their diversity. Specific measures should include: (a) Investing in girls and youth networks by streamlining dedicated funding to provide financial and non-financial resources directly or indirectly to girl-led and youth-led grass-roots organizations and movements while respecting their organizational autonomy; (b) Instituting flexible funding packages and grant application and reporting processes for groups led by girls and young women and for unregistered grass-roots networks, including the opportunity to co-apply for shared grants and funding for selfand collective care; (c) Putting in place processes for integrating the views, interests and decisionmaking roles of girl and young women activists in the planning and implementation of making grants and other activities. 80. The United Nations should promote girls’ and young women’s activism in the following ways: (a) The human rights bodies should prioritize: (i) Mainstreaming gender-, child rights- and youth-sensitive approaches throughout their work and ensuring adequate resourcing for that work; (ii) Instituting and enhancing child- and youth-friendly platforms and processes that ensure girl and young women activists are regularly, meaningfully and inclusively engaged in deliberations and decision-making and that their engagement is sustained and not tokenistic; (iii) Using language that is responsive to girls and young women, avoiding jargon and introducing communication that is clear and accessible to all girls and young women; (iv) Making available age-appropriate, accessible and timely information on the human rights system to enable girl and young women activists to effectively engage with its mechanisms; (b) United Nations agencies must ensure that girl and young women activists have access to United Nations mechanisms and spaces, with the necessary safeguards and without discrimination, by building internal capacity and allocating the necessary technical and financial resources, directly or indirectly, to girl-led and youth-led grass roots in a flexible and inclusive manner. 81. Parents, family and community members should promote, empower and actively support girls’ and young women’s activism. They should seek information about their obligations and exercise their parental or supervisory authority in a manner that 20