• The Ministry of the Interior and Patriotic Training, through the Department of Population,
coordinates civil status activities including the registration of births and deaths in registration
offices and centres;
• The Ministry of Public Security, which includes a specialised unit in charge of the protection of
minors and the protection of morals;
• The Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Employment which deals with the problem of child
labour through the implementation of the National Action Plan for the Elimination of the Worst
Forms of Child Labour 2010 -2015 ;
• The Ministry of Education, which coordinates activities in the field of children's education at preprimary, basic and post-basic level;7
• The Ministry of Public Health and AIDS which has the mandate to implement the country's health
policy and the fight against HIV. Programmes dedicated to the promotion and protection of
children's health are implemented. These are: Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI),
National Programme for Reproductive Health (PNSR), National AIDS Control Programme (PNLS);
• The Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture, which coordinates the activities of youth promotion,
participation and development. Mobilisation around the associative activities, capacity building of
youth associations, sports and social activities for the children, are among the prerogatives of this
Ministry.
16. At local level, a community mechanism for the promotion and protection of the rights of the
child called the Child Protection Committee (CPE) has been set up at municipal, communal and
provincial levels under the coordination of the CDFCs, which are decentralised entities of the
Ministry of Human Rights, Social Affairs and Gender.
17. In general, the different sectoral ministries work in synergy for the promotion and protection of
the rights of the child. In this regard, several actions have been undertaken to popularize the
national and international legal instruments on children's rights respectively adopted and ratified by
Burundi. Guides and elaborate training modules helped launch training actions across the country.
18. International NGOs and Civil Society Organisations working for children contribute to the
dissemination of the Charter and raise awareness about the rights of the child. By way of example,
since 2012, the Ministries of Justice and Public Security have been working with the NGO
International Bureau for Children's Right, IBCR, to mainstream children's rights and juvenile justice
in initial training programmes, as well as ongoing and specialised training. In 2015, 217 magistrates
and 75 police officers were trained on the rights of the child and juvenile justice.
19. In May 2016, the Ministry of Justice organised a 3-week training course on Children's Rights
and Juvenile Justice for magistrates prosecuting or dealing with cases involving juveniles in conflict
with the. Thanks to these ongoing trainings of magistrates and police officers, we went from 440
minors aged 15 to 18 years old in conflict with the law in 2012 to 151 at the beginning of 2016.
These various information and training tools aim to:
• popularise the rights of the child;
• Ensure a thorough understanding of the principles and content of the various child rights
instruments and develop the implementing domestic instruments;
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The post-basic school includes vocational training and literacy, subjects on modern Letters and Science
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