26.          Apart from these two policy documents, there are other planning documents for child protection. These include plans and programs aiming the same purpose of child protection. The National Policy and Strategy for Social Protection (PSNPS) carried out from 2004 to 2013 aimed at supporting vulnerable people, homes and communities, with a strategic focus for the protection of children; The programs stemming from the Growth Strategy for Poverty Reduction, which in its intervention components from 2007 to 2009, and then from 2011 to 2015, included actions aimed at family promotion, child protection and development, particularly through the facilitation of access to care; The Child Protection Policy and Strategies of November 2007 : through which strategic lines of action have been defined to better identify the types of vulnerabilities via efficiently coordinated actions and cooperation between partners and a more effective implementation of the laws, with a focus on prevention, and improved child participation; The national policy for the promotion of gender, which is particularly aimed at promoting gender equality in schools and at reducing school drop-out, on the one hand, and on finding ways and means of combating early marriage ; The policy of psycho-social care for people living with the human immunodeficiency virus (PLWHA) and orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) (July 2006); The National Plan for the Fight against Child Trafficking (2008-2012), which aimed to identify and assess the situation of child exploitation in relation with child trafficking; and then identify and strengthen the institutional and organizational legal frameworks for the prevention, rehabilitation and reintegration of child victims of trafficking; The National Action Plan on the Family (2009 to 2016) which analyzes the socioeconomic reality of the family in Benin, then decline the strategic lines of action for building the economic capacities of families, improving access to social services, and the protection of families with special needs The National Action Plan for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Benin (PAN) 2012-2015; The National Policy for the Development of Justice Sector (PNDSJ) 2015-2025

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