on communications and in Concluding Observations, including follow-up visits to States; the Committee should in particular have followed up on the implementation by Kenya, Uganda and Senegal in the Children on Nubian Descent case, the Children in Northern Uganda case and the Senegalese Talibés case; • should be undertaking regular missions to countries where children are in crisis and should be holding widely-published public hearings on issues of importance to children’s rights; • should be widely published and visible in its activities; a complete and updated record of its activities, including State reports, C Observations, mission reports and its annual reports, should be easily accessible on its website and other formats; • should, in collaboration with its partners, have developed and widely disseminated evidence-based communication and advocacy tools on the rights of children in Africa; • should have significantly reduced delays in finalising submitted communications; • should have interpreted the African Children’s Charter as an autochthonous instrument in its jurisprudence, Concluding Observations and interpretive elaborations; • should be collaborating with the African Commission through regularly-held meetings between them, in order to identify synergies, gaps, complementarities and to exchange experiences, lessons and knowledge (including jurisprudence) and to avoid the unnecessary duplication of efforts; • should have engaged the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) with a view to closer collaboration between the APRM process and State reporting under the African Children’s Charter; • should, within the framework of the African Governance Architecture (AGA), consistently be engaging relevant AU organs on matters of joint concern, such as the Peace and Security Council, the Pan-African Parliament, and the AU’s Economic, Social and Cultural Council. By 2020, African Union’s - • political organs should have ensured the required resources to strengthen the human resource and institutional capacity of the African Children’s Rights Committee, allowing it to appoint on a permanent basis at least two legal officers and to undertake at least six missions per year; • Executive Council and Assembly should consistently have included an item on their agenda on the rights of the child; • political organs should, in collaboration with the African Children’s Committee and 38

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