-Education and literacy of children with disabilities to facilitate access by persons with
disabilities to quality education and appropriate education;
-Access to protection, public service, health, sports and recreation, information, culture and
communication to meet the integration needs of disabled people within the population and the
development of services provided: (i) vocational training to enable people with disabilities to
access permanent employment; (ii) the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the
action plan.
4. Strategic Framework school enrolment and re-enrolment of disabled children with
the following components:
-Redevelopment of the legal framework to ensure enrolment rights and re-schooling of
disabled children;
-Improving specific conditions and promoting a communication environment;
-Support towards funding and capacity building of specialised institutions;
-Promotion of partnership and cooperation;
-Promotion of accompanying measures, monitoring and evaluation.
5- The National Gender Action Plan:
With respect to girls and women, the advantage is that for the past fifteen years they have
benefited from a dynamic institutional framework (Ministry for the Promotion of Women and
Integration of Women in Development). This ministry has managed to pass a bill to protect
victims of sexual violence. It regularly organises awareness days, information and advocacy
on the situation of women and particularly on violence of any kind towards women. It hosts
an observatory on violence and remains active in reporting and combating child abuse,
mutilation and violence. The results will be presented in the following chapters.
Furthermore, a recent survey (2013) notes the persistence of harmful social and cultural
practices such as female genital mutilation, forced marriage, child marriage, breast ironing,
children accused of witchcraft, children accused of murder, street children, child sacrifice,
preference of a boy.
While expressing some reservations about the methodology and statistical consistency of the
data collected, on the development of such practices and the explanations given, the reported
facts are real crimes, and deserve to be taken into account to determine the magnitude and
take necessary corrective action.
Table no. 1 Children of Brazzaville identified as victims of harmful practices
Age groups
0 - 4 years
5 - 9 years
10 - 14 years
15- 17 years
21
Victims
Number
2
10
84
109
Not concerned
%
0.9
4.7
40.0
51.9
Total
0
20
122
120
2
30
206
229