As effective consultation is an integral part of the cost of an effective plan, governments should ensure that adequate resources are allocated to this function of NGO coordinating bodies. The costs involved in the NGO coordination process will include travel, communications, preparation and dissemination of materials and hire of venues. It is desirable to supplement the coordinating and representative role of leading NGOs by involvement in the consultation process of many other organizations engaged in the promotion and protection of human rights. These could include trade unions, professional associations, jurists and organizations representing women, children, minorities, indigenous people, persons with disabilities, rural dwellers and so on. The coordinating committee should give particular attention to ensuring effective consultation with representative members of vulnerable groups, which may be defined somewhat differently from country to country. 6.4 NGOs and community-based organizations dealing with economic, social and cultural rights The coordinating committee should make a particular effort to ensure the effective involvement in the consultation process of NGOs and community-based organizations (CBOs) dealing with economic and social issues as well as their counterpart government agencies. The importance of economic, social and cultural rights and the indivisibility of human rights are important themes that should be fully addressed under any plan. A valuable outcome should be increased awareness among those working in relevant fields, as well as among the general public, of economic, social and cultural rights such as the rights to health, housing and education and the right to development. This will promote a rights-based approach to these issues, centering on the entitlements of individuals and groups, as opposed to the more common servicedelivery approach that lays primary emphasis on political, bureaucratic and budgetary considerations. Work on these issues within the framework of the national plan will assist in the development of benchmarks that can be used in other contexts, for example reporting under relevant human rights treaties. 6.5 Educators, representatives of academic institutions, research institutions and human rights experts Promoting and protecting human rights are long-term activities in which a country’s education system plays an important part. The involvement of educators and representatives of educational institutions in the national action plan process will: • Encourage more effective relations with the education system; • Promote better provisions on human rights education in the plan; and • Facilitate better implementation of the plan's provisions within the education system. Consultation with those associated with research institutions will also assist in ensuring that the plan’s impact is disseminated on a wider and longer-term basis. 53