b) Ensure that the health care system has sufficient trained personnel, and essential healthcare facilities; c) Increase and strengthen investment in agriculture to achieve food security and control malnutrition among children; d) Improve the implementation of the free healthcare policy; e) Increase the scale of the school feeding programme in order to contribute to healthy living among school children; and f) Undertake necessary measures to gradually eradicate child and infant mortality from preventable causes. Child participation 16. The Committee commends the establishment of the Children’s Forum Network ( CFN) with an administrative wing and a children’s parliament in 2001. The Committee recommends the State Party to take measures to ensure the sustainability of the children’s parliament by providing the necessary financial and human resources. The Committee also recommends that children’s parliaments are established by law at the district level, ensure that children in vulnerable situation including girls and children with disabilities are represented, and establish a mechanism through which the views of children’s parliaments are given due consideration in the legislative and policy making processes in the country. The Committee further recommends the State Party to take legislative and other measures to ensure that in all judicial proceedings affecting a child who is capable of communicating her or his views, opportunity is provided for the chid to be heard. D. Civil rights and freedoms Right to name, nationality and birth registration 17. The Committee notes with appreciation the significant increase in the rate of birth registration in the period of 2008 to 2010. However, the Committee has learnt that there are still challenges with regard to the realisation of free, universal and accessible birth registration in the Country. The Committee notes the existence of the low accessibility of birth registration facilities particularly in rural areas; the high number of unregistered children; the decline of the rate of birth registration from 2010 to 2013; incomplete birth registration records as a result of the culture of naming children months after they are born; low awareness among families and communities of the importance of birth registration; weak decentralized systems for birth registration data collection; and lack of data on the rate and number of birth 7

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