• 1.1.4 The total resources received and the percentage allocated to children’s programmes
• R 15. The Committee recommends that the State party does everything in its power to increase
the budget allocated to children's rights and, in this context, to ensure the provision of
sufficient human resources in this field and ensure that the implementation of children’s
policies are considered as a priority. The Committee also recommends that the State party find
ways to undertake a systematic evaluation of the impact of budgetary allocations on the
implementation of child rights and collect and disseminate information in this regard.
• Even if there is no system to track budget allocations and expenditures related to the realisation of
children's rights, it is important to underline the State's efforts.
• 1.1.6 Measures taken to disseminate the provisions of the Convention.
• R 19. The Committee recommends that the State party strengthen its efforts to disseminate the
principles and provisions of the Convention in order to sensitize the society about children's
rights through social mobilization. It also recommends that the Convention is translated in all
national languages as to reach the entire population. Moreover, it encourages systematic
education and training efforts to raise awareness on the provisions of the Convention to
members of all professional groups working for and with children.
• According to Article 42 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, concrete actions have been taken
with regard to the dissemination of the Convention.
• Seminars, workshops, conferences, meetings and various cultural and recreational activities were
organized to sensitize the authorities, the public and the children themselves to issues of childhood and
to raise awareness about the Convention.
It is in this same context that the celebrations of commemorative days devoted to the child include:
- The International Day against Female Genital Mutilation, 6 February;
- The World Day against Child Labour in June -12;
- The Day of the African Child - June 16;
- The International Refugee Day - June 20;
- The day on violence against Women and Children -19 November;
- Commemoration Day of the CRC - 20 November;
- The World AIDS Day - December 1;
- The Disability Day - December 3
- National Solidarity Day - August 25
- The International Youth Day - August 12
- The International Day of Families - 05 May
- World Population Day -11 July
- The World Health Day - April 7
- World AIDS Orphans Day -07 May
- The International Day of the Girl Child- October 11
- World Breastfeeding Week 1st to October 7th
Training sessions on topics related to the Convention have been organised since 2001 for social
workers, judges, carriers, armed forces and Security, teachers, community and religious leaders,
associations and children’s movements, media agents, community-based organisations in order to
strengthen mechanisms of prevention and support for victims of child trafficking, abuse and exploitation
of children, in relation to armed forces and armed groups, children in conflict with the law, children
victims of gender based violence and children with disabilities.
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