mechanism for children living and working on the streets and other vulnerable children. The emergency and long term care solutions for children out of home care, with focus on improving the situation of urban street children and other vulnerable children in Dar es Salaam. It is a joint project between the MOHSW and three NGOs (KIWOHEDE, Dogodogo Centre and MAKINI,) with the aim to respond to the urgent need of the situation of children in the streets of Dar es Salaam. The project targets the following categories of children: (a) a child who is alone and at risk, lives, sleeps, works and eats on the streets without adult supervision and care; (b) a child who is part- or fulltime on the street but goes “home” in the evenings (c) a child who is begging with their parents/other care on the streets; (d) a child who has just arrived to the streets; (e) a child who lives in poverty or is a victim of family breakdown and thus is at risk of migrating to the street; children living in the slums; and (f) a child engaged in domestic work, brothels and other types of child labour. 229. The State Party has also established a National Child helpline which is available across all telephone networks in the country through dialing 116. The call center is now situated in Dar es Salaam but all the people in the country access it. Other initiatives include adoption of the regulations on foster care, children homes, adoption, retention homes, apprentices and child employment in 2014, Development of the guideline for Psychosocial Care and Support Services for Most Vulnerable Children and Youth in Tanzania in 2014. The main objective of this guideline is to promote the effective and comprehensive fulfillment of basic psychosocial needs and the realization of high quality of psychosocial outcomes for MVC and their families in Tanzania. Moreover, those measures to a great extent have ensured that MVC, such as street children and children in conflict with the law, are provided with appropriate care and protection. 230. The State Party has also taken measure to deinstitutionalize children and to further develop placements with foster cares for children deprived of a family environment which includes; adopted the regulation for foster care placement and adoption in 2011 which guide the procedures of fostering children and adoption, review and develop the guideline for foster care and adoption, development of children home regulation and guideline for establishment and management of children home. All these measures aim to encourage children grow under the family environment. 231. In addition, CSOs in collaboration with the department of social welfare is the process to harmonize the national children’s home guidelines of 2006 to that of UN Guidelines on alternative care has being adopted by the UNCRC in 2009. Also in February 2014 SOS Children’s Villages Tanzania has launched the national “Care for Me” Campaign embedded with “quality care to every child”. This campaign is coordinated hand to hand by DSW. Through this campaign, Social Welfare at all level are encouraged to provide technical support including supervision of the institutions which provide alternative care but also to enforce the non-registered institutional to be registered. The ministries of community development, gender and children, constitutional affairs and justice are supporting this “Care for Me” campaign on the implementation of UN Guideline on Alternative Care. 232. During the reporting period the campaign has reached over 2,000,000 Tanzanian through printed and electronic media like radio, TVs and Blog. Over 50 social welfare officers at ward and district levels have been taking part to educate the public on quality care to every child to especially those children without parental care. The UN Guidelines on alternative care has been translated into Swahili version to make it more accessible and well understood by the stakeholders and government official, specifically over 500 copies have been distributed to ward councillor, social welfare and community development officers. 233. Currently, the State Party is widely consulting with all stakeholders on its endeavour to ratify the Hague Convention on Inter country Adoption. Once the consultations are complete it will be in a position to state the consensus so far reached. 64