It should also be noted that each administration dealing with children’s issues receives and examines complaints from them and / or their representatives. Thus, considerable efforts have been made in order to comply with the recommendations that were made through the establishment of coordination mechanisms between the different stakeholders who deal with child protection. Furthermore, an assessment of the decentralization process, made by the Permanent Secretariat for Decentralization, reveals that key stakeholders have not taken a firm grip of the mechanism. . In order to overcome this, the Government organises regularly, with the support of development partners, sessions for strengthening the capacities of council executives. c) Budget Allocation for Implementing the Charter Resources earmarked for the implementation of actions for the promotion and protection of children are included in the overall budget packages of the various ministries concerned. Such allocations increased significantly between 2011 and 2014, for the Ministry of Social Affairs (MINAS), Ministry of Women's Empowerment and the Family (MINPROFF), Ministry of Basic Education (MINEDUB), Ministry of Secondary Education (MINESEC) and Ministry of Public Health (MINSANTE). MINAS, for its part, received respectively from 2011 to 2015 budget allocations as follows: 4,329 billion CFAF (2011); 4,705 billion CFAF (2012); 5,624 billion CFAF (2013); 5,966 billion CFAF (2014) and 6,210 billion CFAF (2015). For its part, MINPROFF’s budget experienced a relative increase from 2012 to 2015 as follows: 3,686 billion CFAF (2012); 4,453 billion CFAF (2013); 4,573 billion CFAF (2014) and 5,008 billion CFAF (2015). As for budgets allocated to the social ministries of education, in this case MINEDUB and MINESEC, for the specified period, there was an increase in these budgets, with a strong emphasis on the construction and maintenance of infrastructure, notably classrooms, water points, hand washing points, separate latrines for girls and boys, sports facilities, etc. From 2011 to 2014, the MINEDUB investment budget increased from 12.2 in 2011 to 20.6 billion CFAF in 2014. This over 75% increase enabled the equipment of schools with health infrastructure, with particular attention paid to the country’s northern regions, where the lack of health facilities contributed to the low enrolment of the girl child, the proliferation of water-borne diseases and non- observance of hygiene rules. The overall budget for 2015 is 188,583 billion CFAF, representing a slight increase of over 14 billion CFAF compared to 2014. Regarding MINESEC, its investment budget increased from 15.6 in 2011 to 20.7 billion CFAF in 2014, representing an increase of nearly 5 billion CFAF and an investment budget increase of 33.3% since 2011. The total amount allocated for MINESEC for 2015 stands at 251,478 billion CFAF, representing an increase of 29 billion CFAF compared to 2014, including 24,500 billion CFAF earmarked for investment. 10

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