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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:
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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:
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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;
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