P a g e | 15 2.5 Measures taken or planned to disseminate knowledge of the principles and provisions of the Charter to adults and children Given that the CPW Act is an embodiment of the provisions of the Charter, the primary push has been for its dissemination to the community and training for the role players. The GoL manages country-wide efforts to disseminate the provisions of the CPW Act and its underlying child focused messages to stakeholders, community leaders and village members. Printing of fifteen hundred copies of the Act was paid for by UNICEF in 2013 in order to provide copies to interested stakeholders and members of the judiciary who required the Act to properly implement it. The CPW Act has been simplified for community members into a succinct A5 document and translated into Sesotho by Management Sciences for Health (MSH) in partnership with MoSD. MSH is a not-for-profit corporation which aims to strengthen health systems. Their main aim is to strengthen the overall sustainability, quality and reach of care and support interventions for vulnerable children and their care-givers living with HIV and AIDs. UNICEF also coordinated with MoSD to produce a simplified version of the CPW Act which is a call to action specifically for community leaders. The Act has also been posted on the internal government portal for further distribution and dissemination. There has been recent discussion to make the government portal available to the public. The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) with the technical assistance of The University of Western Cape are currently conducting the second of three, week-long training sessions on the provisions of the Act for key role players. The first of the trainings was provided in December 2013 to Magistrates, prosecutors and members of the Office of the Master of the High Court. The second training will focus on social workers employed by MoSD, members of the CGPU, and the probations unit. The third training is scheduled for March 2014 and is aimed again at the judiciary to provide a follow up with more detail on sections pertinent to their day-to-day work. Emphasis has been to provide the trainings to recipients who have never before received CPW Act training. This has been a joint project lead by MOJ, funded by Global Fund with technical assistance provided by UNICEF. Heads of department within the MoSD present regular radio segments on Lesotho National radio and television to discuss issues relating to children and specifically children with disabilities. They also facilitate annual celebrations of commemorative days, with the assistance of donor funding, such as the Day of the African Child and Disability Day. The MoET in conjunction with Sentebale hold evening classes for herd boys. The children are taught basic level literacy, as well as life-skills such as prevention of HIV, what constitutes abuse and where to report it, and how to cook simple meals for themselves when herding away from home. MOET also have a special education unit to focus on the schooling needs of children with disabilities.

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