The budget allocated for MINSANTE between 2011 and 2014 increased from 74.6 billion CFAF to 91.4 billion CFAF for the recurrent budget. On the contrary, the investment budget decreased slightly, over the same period, from 77.1 billion CFAF to 74.5 billion CFAF. The 2015 budget witnessed a significant increase, of 207,066 billion CFAF. Amongst the several difficulties, could be noted the absence of a mechanism for following up child protection activities and lack of a special support fund for the promotion of children's rights. To solve these difficulties, two main actions were implemented. This, on the one hand, was the coming into force in 2013 of a new financial regime of the State, adopted through Finance Law No. 2007/006 of 26 December 2007 which established the Programme Budget, whose execution allowed for a better mastery of the cost of conducting actions for children, and on the other hand, the revitalization of a coordination platform mechanisms for budgetary follow-up and control. d) Cooperation with Non-state Stakeholders Collaboration with the civil society is reflected in its involvement in the various activities organised by the government and the NCHRF in the areas of education, training, awareness-raising and advocacy. The civil society was associated with the preparation of implementation reports on legal instruments to protect the rights of the child. In the same vein, the State provided financial and technical support to CSOs for the promotion and protection of the rights of the child. Furthermore, MINATD popularized legislative and regulatory instruments to make CSOs sensitive in order to be granted the status of NGOs. However, MINATD has been encouraged to keep on convening the commissions to grant this status. In general, there is a marked improvement in the area of collaboration between government departments and civil society organizations for the promotion and protection of the rights the child. The CSOs are likely to be strengthened when they gradually implement the collaboration platform of all stakeholders in this area. e) Dissemination The Government, development partners, the NCHRF and the Civil Society have some efforts towards popularizing the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC). Thus, the following actions were taken: - organizing in 2013 and 2014, as part of the celebration of the Day of the African Child, two symposia on the promotion and protection of the rights of the child, involving community leaders, religious authorities, parents’ representatives, children parliamentarians and leaders of the civil society; - broadcasting radio and television programmes on the rights of children; - organizing awareness-raising campaigns through the media with commercials on the fight against child labour; - holding educative talks on the rights of children for parents, educators and children; - building the capacity of officials of central and external services of MINPROFF on international legal instruments on the rights of the child; 11