- - the setting up and running of 10 informal basic education centres in the 10 Regional headquarters; the setting up of 430 Multipurpose Youth Promotion Centres (CMPJ) targeting the social integration, economic promotion as well as safe and educational leisure activities for youths; indentifying, referencing and monitoring cases of child forced labour; technical and financial support for the implementation of ILO Conventions ratified by Cameroon; the adoption of the National Policy on the Comprehensive Development of the Young Child. The study on forced labour and economic exploitation of children enabled a better grasp of the phenomenon. Awareness raising, , reintegration and re-adaptation of children who are victims of such practices helped to provide solutions to some of the concerns of this target group. However, the implementation of these actions is hampered by a number of obstacles, prominent among which are the poor reporting of authors, the lukewarm perception of child labour by the society, the ignorance of legal instruments related to child labour by local communities and some stakeholders involved in child protection, the insufficient budget resources to implement the National Action Plan for the Fight against the Worst Forms of Child Labour. In order to remedy the situation, the following actions are envisaged: - - implementing the Train My Generation Programme, put in place by Heads of CEMAC member States in 2013, which will help to address the various issues related to poverty and unemployment among the youth in order to contribute to the development of productive initiatives in favour of the target population; enhancing education, information and awareness among families and communities on the rights of the child; building the institutional capacities for the caring of children; pursuing sanctions against perpetrators of forced labour and other forms of economic exploitation of children. c) Sexual Exploitation (Art. 27) To give effect to the main recommendations relating to the sexual exploitation of children, the following major actions are to be noted: - - the punishment of culprits (in Bamenda, in the North West Region, for instance, 3 perpetrators of rape were respectively sentenced to 18 years, 1 year and six months of imprisonment, a child ritual practitioner received a 5-year prison sentence and 3 perpetrators of rape are currently awaiting trial); the consideration, in the national strategy to combat GBV, of aspects relating to the sexual exploitation, sale and trafficking of children; building the capacities of stakeholders in the child protection chain (security forces, lawyers, magistrates and social workers) on the specific rights of children who are victims of trafficking and/or exploitation; 38

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