CEDAW/C/GC/36 segregated by gender, untrained or unsupportive staff, lack of appropriate sanitary protection materials and lack of information on puberty and menstrual issues, contribute to social exclusion, reduced participation in and focus on learning and decreased school attendance. 31. The Committee recommends that States parties take the following measures to ensure the availability of physical facilities for the education of girls and women: (a) Provide adequate budgetary, human and administrative resources to ensure that adequate provision is made at the primary and secondary levels to accommodate all girls according to their respective population age cohorts; (b) Address imbalances in budgetary allocations for disadvantaged and marginalized groups of girls and women based on socioeconomic status, location, ethnicity, gender identity and religious persuasion; (c) Institute temporary special measures, in line with article 4 of the Convention, to increase the number of qualified teachers, in particular women, where the teaching force consists predominantly of men, including through the provision of appropriate and continued training; (d) Monitor the implementation of the right of girls and women to education by regularly collecting data disaggregated by sex, location, age, school type and ethnic group on access at all levels of education, including the following indicators: number of female and male students enrolled, and as a proportion of the overall school-age population, at each level of education; retention, dropout, attendance and repetition rates; average years of schooling for female and male students; rate of successful transition between school levels, including for early childhood to primary, primary to secondary and secondary to tertiary or vocational; number of male and female teachers, as an indication of the level of parity among teachers; and female and male literacy rates at different age levels; and by using the information to inform decision-making, policy formulation and periodic reports to the Committee on barriers to girls’ and women’s access to education; (e) Adopt strategies to encourage and monitor school enrolment, attendance, retention and reintegration after dropout, based on disaggregated data; (f) Improve sanitation facilities by providing sex-segregated toilets and washrooms in all schools, as well as access to safe drinking water. 32. The Committee recommends that States parties take the following measures to ensure access to education for all girls and women: (a) Ensure that girls and women living in rural and remote areas have access to education, in line with articles 4 and 14 (d) of the Convention, and adopt temporary special measures, when appropriate, to support their right to education; (b) Ensure that schools are physically accessible and located within safe distances from students’ homes, in particular in rural and remote areas; (c) Provide opportunities for access to programmes of continuing education, including adult and functional literacy programmes, in particular those aimed at reducing any gaps in education between men and women (article 10 (e)); 8/23 17-19774