braille versions of documents and sign language interpretation at meetings. There are victims and perpetrators who fled to other countries like South Africa, Botswana and Zambia. The Commission will need to consider how they can be involved in the process. It may need to consider modalities for working with regional partner organisations. 2.13 Participation of Women, Youth and Children Special attention must be paid to women, youth and children. Special tools could be deployed to facilitate their participation. The NPRC must assign a special office to ensure that the needs of women, youth and children are attended to and that their voices are amplified. Section 9 of the NPRC Act provides that a focal person on gender be appointed into every committee or unit of the Commission to attend to the special needs of women. In other cultures, women, youth and children are not allowed to attend meetings. Or if they attend, they are not allowed to speak. The Commission must carry out a special study and identify obstacles to participation and put in place measures to activate the participation of such groups. Other measures include the need to create special focus groups, community support structures and ensuring that the facilitation team has specific gender composition. 2.14 Special Measures for Participation of Children The participation of children, in particular, will need to be carefully programmed for. Child protection and safeguarding measures will need to be planned and trained and oriented specialists for each cognitive age group will need to support the process. There needs to be a child protection framework which is consistent with national law, and a focal person for child rights and child protection. The Commission may find it useful to engage with the education sector to facilitate a well-coordinated 9 THE CODE OF INCLUSION