measures to detention provided for by the Criminal Procedure Code considering the low number of children registered in borstal institutions312. 502- During the period 2013-2017, and on the whole, the separation of minors from adults was respected. Although all the prisons in the country not not have facilities to accommodate minors, 79 of the 89 prisons nationwide were functional, of which 36 have a wing for minors and 15 a building for minors. 503- Platforms for juvenile justice stakeholders were set up to facilitate the concerted management of the challenges identified. Similarly, stakeholders including Judicial and Legal Officers, Welfare workers and Judicial Police Officers were trained on alternative measures to detention313. 504- Besides, in a bid to promote the optimal supervision of children in conflict with the law, the Penitentiary Administration absorbed 20 Welfare workers as at 31 December 2017. 505- CSOs helped in carrying out this action with especially the “Juvenile Justice Reform: diversion, alternatives to detention, humane incarceration and reintegration of children” Project executed from 2015 to 2017 by the Centre for Human Rights and Peace Advocacy, in partnership with the Bamenda Urban Council and health services financed by the European Union. In addition to the capacity development activities organised for the criminal chain stakeholders, and assistance to minors in judicial proceedings, the Project enabled the construction of the Juvenile Justice Reform Diversion Centre in Bamenda to continue to receive children in conflict with the law and vulnerable children. 506- Furthermore, the State undertook to rehabilitate the said institutions. In this regard, the modernization Project of the Institut Camerounaise de l’Enfance of Betamba worth CFAF2,571,500,000 was launched on 17 November 2017. The Project that is estimated to be executed within 36 months, was carried out by the Department of Engineering of the Cameroon Army. The Centre d’Accueil et d’Observation of Bepanda, Douala was rehabilitated and reopened. 507- In spite of the efforts mentioned above, challenges including insufficient specialised placement and care structures for detained minors, procedural bottlenecks, lack of a regulatory framework on the duties of assessors and probation officers, lack of adequate financial and human resources to support the alternatives to detention of minors are still registered in the juvenile justice sector and need to be addressed by the State. 3: Children in Prison with the Mothers 508- During the reference period, the presence of children in prison with their mothers was a concern. Such presence was due either to the birth of the child during the prison term of the mother, or the refusal of the mother to confer the child on a third-party during the prison term, or the refusal of family members or the lack of known family ties outside the prison. Thus, as at 21 September 2018, for example, the female wing of the Central Prison, Maroua had an enrolment of 57 women of which 4 were pregnant, and 2 minor girls. At the same time, 18 children accompanied their mothers in prison. 312 From 2015 to 2017, some 172 minors were placed in public institutions for minors in conflict with the law and which have an intake capacity of 466 persons. (Institution Camerounaise de l’Enfance, Betamba (23); Centre d’accueil des mineurs, Bertoua (23); Institution Camerounaise de l’enfance, Maroua (41); Centre d’Accueil et d’Observation, Bepanda, Douala (40) ; Home Atelier, Bali (12) ; Centre d’Accueil et d’observation, Bafoussam (10) ; and Borstal Institute, Buea (23). 313 A workshop on the evaluation of the implementation of sections 700 to 745 of the Criminal Procedure Code relating to juvenile justice, organised in November 2015 by MINAS; 2 seminars in Maroua by MINJUSTICE from 25 to 27 May (which year?), and from 24 to 26 June 2015. 86