- the bodies set up to manage the refugee status have not gone operational the non-existence of regional and local branches of refugee management bodies; the poor appropriation by local communities of the refugee problem; the inadequate material, financial and humanitarian resources to address the evergrowing influx of Nigerian and Central African refugees; the inadequate mastery by some public stakeholders of refugee rights protection standards. In order to overcome the above mentioned difficulties, it is recommended that the process of transferring the roles of determining the status of refugees from the HCR to the Government be completed, make the refugee management bodies go operational, set up regional and local branches of these bodies by giving them appropriate running budget allocations. d) Children of Imprisoned Mothers (Art. ) Since Cameroon presented its report in 2011, there has not been any special law relating to palliative sentences to the imprisonment of mothers with their children. However, this issue remains a major concern for the State of Cameroon which would like to draw from the experiences of other African States on the matter. In the meantime, some Civil Society stakeholders have distinguished themselves in caring for children born to imprisoned mothers. Such is the case with the Relais Parents-Enfants Association, the NGO Mère-Enfant, Justice and Peace Commissions, that organize specific actions targeting children whose mothers are in prison, especially in preparing for the school year (school kits, various textbooks and manuals), and in organizing end-of-year festivities (Christmas Tree Ceremony with the handing over of presents to children). Actions were equally geared towards other categories of vulnerable children, namely, street children. In this regard, the following should be noted: - pursuing the implementation of the project to fight against the street children phenomenon; - the setting up of two pilot regional multi-sector mobile brigades for the fight against the street children phenomenon in Yaounde and Douala; - the annual capacity building campaigns in favour of social workers in providing care to street children; - the organization of home-coming actions for 855 former street children; of which 585 reintegrated the classical educational system and received educational support; - the systematic going back to school of children placed in foster institutions and the social and vocational training in view of greater empowerment; - the strengthening of the inter-sector coordination mechanism for the fight against the street children phenomenon; - the implementation of the pre-marital, matrimonial and family education programme that takes into consideration the prevention of the street children phenomenon; - the validation of the handbook on community schools as a didactic tool intended for teachers on the ground; - the institutional placement of street children in reception and rehabilitation centres for minors. 35

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