awareness. Support for the reconversion of former excision practitioners through incomegenerating activities, made them to surrender their knives. Difficulties identified mainly relate to the persistence of early and forced marriages (because 8.7% of girls aged between 15 and 19 got into their first marriage before 15 years); insufficiency of routine data collection on FGMs; the tracking of interventions in the fight against FGMs; insufficiency of financial and human resources in the fight against GBV and NCPs; the low number of programmes for the reintegration of children who are victims of FGMs and NCPs. To remedy the situation, measures have been taken, relating to: developing the strategy for the promotion and protection of children’s rights; the utilization of the findings of the anthropological study on harmful cultural practices that infringe on the rights of children for the setting up a comprehensive communication plan in view of eradicating such practices; the inclusion of negative traditional practices in major nationwide surveys such as EDS, MICS and ECAM. b) Child Labour (Art. 15) In the area of economic exploitation, including child labour, Cameroon drew up actions and programmes to meet the provisions of the ACRWC. These actions focused, among other things, on: - - - the study on child labour and youth employment in Cameroon, conducted in 2012 by the NIS; the inclusion of the WACAP-LUTRENA Project into the 2012-2014 programme budget, following the evaluation of the pilot phase; building the capacities of about 60 children in 2013, on participation and advocacy for the fight against abuses and violence against children in situations of employment, led by the NGO International Day of the African Child and Youths (IDAY Cameroon) in association with the Association of Working Children and Youths; the validation, in March 2014, of the National Plan of Action for the fight against the worst forms of child labour; the handing over of start-up kits to some children trained in learning trades (plumbing, sewing, motor mechanics, carpentry, hairdressing, etc.); during the pilot phase of the project to combat the trade and trafficking in children in cocoa-farming and commercial agriculture in the Centre, South West and North West Regions (WACAP- LUTRENA); the setting up, in 2014, of a National Committee on the fight against the worst forms of child labour; the study for the possibility to ratify Convention 189 of the ILO on domestic workers; the organization, in October 2014, of a multi-sector workshop on the domestic labour of children; the organization of several multi-sector campaigns and workshops on issues related to child trafficking, crowned by a Government declaration on the matter, in October 2014; the enhancement of literacy, informal basic education and vocational training programmes in response to the specific needs of children from urban and rural areas (PAJER-U, PIAASI); 37