for instance governments and other clients of pmscs can include in their contracts clear mechanisms for accountability guarantees that human rights abuses will be prosecuted incentives to increase the recruitment of female personnel and assurances that personnel have completed gender training and are properly vetted these regimes should be guided by the existing international legal framework this framework includes standards that mandate the integration of gender issues the possibility of the state being held responsible for violations by pmsc personnel and the direct accountability of pmsc personnel for violations of international humanitarian law international human rights and criminal law and national laws