Subordinate Agencies and the Guidelines for Reviews of Laws Reported by the Various Subordinate Agencies of Executive Yuan. The government should implement mechanisms and procedures to assess the impact on the rights of persons with disabilities before important national medium- and long-term projects and laws are brought to review by the Executive Yuan. It should ensure that when stipulating and implementing important national projects and laws, the various agencies are all able to implement the idea of equality for persons with disabilities into the process of developing and carrying out measures, while also adhering to the General Principles set out in Article 3 of the CRPD. 17. Upon reviewing the CRPD Second Report and its statistical data, the NHRC found that the relevant central competent authorities have only presented general data regarding the implementation of each provision of the CRPD and its performance. However, they have made no mention whatsoever of issues related to the inequitable distribution of resources and implementation between different counties and cities. They were unable to put scheduled plans into place and lacked specific supervision and improvements. Some support services for persons with disabilities that fall under the authority of counties and cities have long lagged far behind the national average. After inquiring the central competent authorities, the reasons given for this situation mostly involve the financial difficulties of local governments. The NHRC is of the opinion that the current system is ineffective: the central authorities set the standards while local governments are charged with meeting these standards, with the budget for doing so split between the central and local governments and the central authorities imposing welfare service performance evaluations on local governments. Many of the rights and interests of persons with disabilities are not guaranteed due to their household registration or current place of residence. Thus, the NHRC recommends that the government take concrete measures and set out a schedule of objectives to improve the discrepancy in resource allocation between counties and cities. 18. The NHRC regards that schools and government agencies at all levels have failed to effectively raise the disability awareness of their employees. There is no system in place for evaluating the actual effects and results of training materials and awareness-raising sessions. Instead, the focus is only on quantitative data such as 15

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