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xxvii. Step up efforts to expand the public health system by prioritizing construction and
rehabilitation of health centers in the rural areas;
xxviii. Adopt appropriate policies to provide adequate resources to rural health centers, to
ensure provision of medical services to these areas;
xxix. Take all necessary measures to ensure allocation of the requisite budget to the
health sector;
xxx.
Strengthen reproductive health programs and policies in order to ensure increased
access to family planning by women and adolescent girls;
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xxxi. Continue to take all necessary measures to guarantee that free and compulsory
primary education is universal, including ensuring access to children from rural
areas and indigenous communities;
xxxii. Monitor and ensure effective implementation of the All Inclusive Education Policy;
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Women
xxxiii. Ensure the adoption of training on policies and programs to implement the Law on
Domestic Violence against Women, in order to build the operational and
institutional capacity to combat violence against women;
xxxiv. Take the necessary measures to ensure expansion of programs to address domestic
violence to the rural areas;
xxxv. Adopt robust measures to combat violence against women including through
ensuring prompt investigation and prosecution of such cases;
xxxvi. Strengthen existing programs to reduce the high rate maternal mortality rate;
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Children
xxxvii. Take the necessary measures to prohibit and prevent harmful cultural practices
including female genital mutilation and early marriage;
xxxviii. Adopt measures to combat child labour and ensure prompt investigation and
prosecution of perpetrators;
xxxix.
Monitor the program on registration of births, to ensure its effective
implementation;
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