-Establishment of mechanisms for inclusion of disabled children into mainstream schools;
-Introduction of the teaching of Braille and sign language in teachers’ curricula;
- Building of ramps in schools;
-Taking into account people with hearing impairment when covering major national
celebrations or ceremonies and news;
-Consider building ramps on the premises of the Ministry of Culture and the Arts (theatres,
museums tailored to the needs of the disabled).
E- Other activities 2011-2012
Apart from this space, the Ministry of Social Affairs, Solidarity and Humanitarian Action, the
Ministry of Promotion of Women and Integration of Women in Development and the
Ministry of Justice have joined civil society organisations to jointly lead, through legal
centres, public awareness campaigns for children explaining the various components of their
rights.
However, the parliament has no legal framework that defines its mission to ensure its proper
operation and the importance of its rationale; the budget for its operation remains inadequate.
Therefore, it is necessary to define the legal framework and increase its budget.
As a promoter of the systematic participation of children in the development, implementation
and monitoring and evaluation of all programmes that affect them, the local UNICEF office
has strongly supported the establishment of the Children's Parliament; UNICEF supported its
first CRC popularisation activities and continues to speed up the process.
Since its creation in 2003, the Children's Parliament is present in all phases of development,
implementation and monitoring and evaluation. He attends preparatory programmes
meetings, participates in various seminars and workshops on children’s issues, participates in
international meetings and is always present during semi-annual and annual reviews of all
sectoral programmes of the Congo-UNICEF cooperation programme. The principle is now
well understood and applied consistently. For now, the Children's Parliament works well, but
according to its main actors, problems that still arise are:
At political level and overall, the children's parliament has already acquired a certain
authority and a wide audience, which will be strengthened by its forthcoming institutional
status and the implementation of its action plans.
With regard to indigenous people, the results obtained under the protection of indigenous
children include a stronger partnership with indigenous organisations, NGOs, civil society,
bilateral cooperation and UN Agencies. This partnership was reflected at all decision-making
levels regarding the actions to be implemented in indigenous communities.
The implementation of the project to improve the conditions of access to basic services of the
Pygmy minority in the Republic of Congo (2001-2004) by the Association Espoir Renaît
(AER), in partnership with UNICEF, has received participatory consent of the main
stakeholders, the indigenous people themselves, who participated significantly and in a
practical manner, in its implementation and monitoring. The micro planning and the
participatory approach, which were developed, have contributed in some way to this
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