In response, several actions have thus been envisaged, viz.: - pursuing the qualitative and quantitative training of teachers; - increasing the budgets allocated to education sector, as well as advocacy for partners to increase their support for government actions; - better coordinating projects carried out on the field in order to facilitate access to education; - organizing awareness-raising activities for education community members on the importance of quality education and their extension to the whole country, especially inservice teacher training, strengthening the pedagogical supervision chain, improving on the teacher’s living conditions; - improving on the procedure for providing the minimum package to its beneficiaries; - increasing the number of and equipping training centres for children who are school dropouts. b) Leisure, Recreation and Cultural Activities (Art. 12) As part of the promotion of leisure, recreational and cultural activities for children, the following actions were taken: - - - - organizing camping and holiday camps (activity revamped in 2013 in the South and Adamawa Regions for 50 children and then continued in 2014 in the following Regions: Centre (223 children), South (110 children) and North West (100 children); organizing school games by the National Federation of School Sports (FENASSCO), taking into account the handicap approach; organizing entertaining and educative radio and TV programmes for children; organizing cultural activities for children, particularly, holiday workshops (training on national languages, plastic arts, music, drama/comedy, traditional games, transmission of cultural values , makeshift activities, etc.) ; promoting access to books and reading culture; setting up services and organizing pre- and post-school activities within schools (establishing students associations and school clubs, children's government in primary schools); organizing annual campaigns to promote sports and recreation, known as “INJS sports-loisirs-vacances” [INJS leisure-holidays-sports] when school children are on holiday, particularly for children of all ages. c) Health and Health Services (Art. 14) Health sector goals, that were aligned in 2009 with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), are defined in the Health Sector Strategy as follows: By 2015, - reduce by two-thirds, the under-five mortality rate; - reduce by two-fifths, maternal mortality; - reduce by one-third, the burden of diseases among the poor and the most vulnerable populations; - enable 80% of existing health districts to reach at least the consolidation phase; - enable 100% of health facilities at the strategic and intermediary levels to play their role of providing technical and strategic assistance and guidance. 22

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