(vii) Coordination and Monitoring of the Implementation of the Charter 19. The State Party has place in place the following mechanisms at the national and local levels for coordinating policies relating to children and for monitoring the implementation of the Charter: 19.1 The coordination of the implementation of the rights of the child is ensured at all levels, through two ministries (one for Zanzibar and one for the Mainland),32 as children issues are currently not Union Matters. Functionally, the State Party has ensured that children issues in the Mainland and Zanzibar are dealt with in accordance with the Charter. At the ministerial level, there are special departments/units that are responsible for coordination of children issues. When it comes to reporting, the Attorney General’s office has a role to coordinate submission of reports to international human rights treaty bodies, including the ACERWC.33 20. Despite undertaking the foregoing positive measures, the State Party faces of the following challenges in its efforts to ensure that coordination is mainstreamed at the Union level. 20.1 As children’s issues are not part of the Union Matter, there is no single national coordination body.34 There are different cultural realities relating to children in the two parts of the Union. 20.2 There are insufficient financial and human resources allocated to the relevant institutions to ensure that there is effective coordination between the two parts of the Union. 20.3 The standards of implementation of relevant ministerial policies that are implemented at the Local Government Authorities (LGAs) differ between the two parts of the Union due to their diverse governance structures. 21. In order to address the foregoing challenges, the State Party has ensured that there is an effective coordination mechanism. In particular, issues pertaining to policy, development, budget allocation, monitoring, implementation and reporting of the ACRWC in the Mainland are coordinated by the MCDGC, while issues pertaining to most vulnerable children (MVC) are coordinated by the MoHSW. Whereas in Zanzibar the MESWYWC coordinates children issues from the national to the SShehia levels,35 in the Mainland children’s issues at the LGAs’ level are coordinated by the Prime Minister’s Office, Regional Administration and Local Government (PMORALG). In addition, the MCDGC has established a National Advisory Committee to the matters relating to children both in Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar. 22. In particular, the State Party has huge progress in the implementation and coordination of various existing National action plans, strategies, programmes and child laws as follows: (a) establishment of the National Multisectoral Taskforce that meets quarterly, responsible for reviewing the implementation of the three years National Plan of Action on VAC (2013 – 2016); 32 Whereas in the Mainland children’s issues and actors are coordinated by the Ministry of Community Development Gender and Children (MCDGC), in Zanzibar they are coordinated by the Ministry of Empowerment, Social Welfare, Youth, Women and Children (MESWYWC). 33 See Section 14(1)(f) of the Office of the Attorney-General Act (2005). 34 There is a new development regarding this issue because Article 53 of the Proposed Constitution that was adopted ty The Constituent Assembly on 2 October 2014 protects the rights of the child. This means that when the Proposed Constitution is adopted at a referendum to be held later, all laws related to children’s issues from both parts of the Union will have to be adhere and conform to the provisions of the new Union Constitution. 35 Unlike in the Mainland where there are two ministries coordinating issues relating to children (i.e.the MCDGC and MoSW), in Zanzibar the MESWYWC is the sole coordination ministries through its Department of Women and Children (dealing mainly with prevention of child abuses) and the Department of Social Welfare (responsible for providing Responses to Child Abuses). 12