Data collection — a key tool to enable the mapping of rehabilitation services: • By identifying existing rehabilitation services in the country against torture victims’ needs; • Evaluating how victims’ needs are provided for by NGO-led rehabilitation services and how this complies with the General Comment framework; • Evaluating what services the state provides, including in terms of general mental health services; • Evaluating other available resources or partners that could provide resources, e.g. private hospitals, specialist medical centres, etc.; • Establishing or strengthening systems to ensure confidentiality of torture victims. Following IRCT’s strategic framework, we are working on the right to rehabilitation in the following ways: 1 Strengthening capacity Raising awareness is an important first stage to achieving the implementation of the right to rehabilitation. For example through: • Informing victims of torture, health and legal professionals and other key stakeholders of states’ obligations and victims’ rights under Article 14 of the UNCAT; • Capacity development (provided to state agencies, medical/legal professionals, via university curriculum); • Peer supervisory networks (internal and external), particularly of health and legal professionals, social workers, other professionals in contact with survivors of torture. Collecting data – states and rehabilitation service providers should carry out systematic data collecting on rehabilitation, in order to provide disaggregated overviews of compensation and rehabilitation provided to torture victims. Accessing funding – Article 14 places an absolute obligation on states to provide for as full rehabilitation as possible (i.e. not related to the available resources of the state or to the responsibility of the state as a perpetrator). However, the IRCT recognises that until this is achieved, other funding sources need to be accessed, for example: • Partnerships between rehabilitation centres, IRCT and other stakeholders should be encouraged to strengthen collaboration and access more funding opportunities; • Lobbying at the national and international level is required to encourage states to donate to the UNVFVT. 2 Influencing policy Creating the policy and legal framework to operate rehabilitation services, for example through: 26 International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims