CHAPTER THREE: DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL GOVERNANCE __________________________________________________________________________ iii. Recommendations of the APR Panel 288. The APR Panel recommends that the government:  Adopt a national gender policy that will serve as a reference and orientation framework for all sectors of development.  Guarantee women’s rights by enforcing the laws adopted.  Translate into local languages and disseminate the Individual and Family Code and all laws relating to the rights of women and the family.  Provide the MFE, as well as gender focal points attached to sector departments, with the necessary authority and human and financial resources to enable them to perform their tasks.  Allocate an adequate budget to the integration of gender issues in the policies and programmes of action of all departments.  Ensure that there is systematic education and training in the human and legal rights of women for all professional groups linked to judicial and extrajudicial activities, judges, doctors, lawyers, court clerks, bailiffs, traditional chiefs, and others.  Strengthen education about the human rights of women in the primary and secondary education curriculum.  Take all measures aimed at ensuring the equal access of women to elective and nonelective responsibilities, to political and administrative positions, and to political organisations and associations, through the adoption of positive measures of action such as quotas and the revision of electoral laws and legal texts. Civil society and the media are urged to strengthen awareness, in adults and children, of the human and legal rights of women. The private sector and civil society should promote the creation of an enabling environment for women to combine work and family life. Objective 8: Promote and protect children’s rights i. Summary of the CSAR 289. The CSAR gives a very brief account of the measures taken to protect children and young people. These include the creation of a Brigade for the Protection of Minors (BPM) and a Children’s Ministry; the creation of a Children’s 116