Aspiration
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Short term Action Plan (ending 2020)
Aspiration 1: The African Children’s Charter, as supervised by the African
Children’s Committee, provides an effective continental framework for
advancing children’s rights.
By 2020 • the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sahrawi Arab Democratic
Republic, Somalia, São Tome and Principe, South Sudan and Tunisia have become State
parties to the African Children’s Charter;
• Botswana, Egypt, Mauritania and Sudan should have withdrawn their reservations under
the African Children’s Charter;
• Algeria, Botswana, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Madagascar,
Mauritius, Niger, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Somalia, São Tome and Principe,
Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan and Tunisia should have become State parties to the
Maputo Protocol;
• Kenya should have implemented the African Children’s Committee’s recommendations
in the Children on Nubian Descent case; Uganda should have implemented the Children’s
Committee’s recommendations in the Northern Ugandan Children case; and Senegal
should have implemented the Committee’s recommendations in the Senegalese Talibés
case;
• all States that have not yet done so (Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cape Verde, Djibouti,
Equatorial Guinea, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Seychelles, Swaziland and Zambia)
should have submitted their initial reports; all other State parties should continue to
submit periodic reports about the implementation of the African Children’s Charter;
• States should have given full effect to the Concluding Observations issued after the
examination of their reports;
• States should have co-operated fully with the African Children’s Committee in the
exercise of its promotional and protective mandate;
• States should have undertaken and supported activities to make the Children’s Charter
better known and understood at the domestic level, for example, by supporting activities
related to the annual Day of the African Child, with the full and effective participation of
children;
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