Page 16 - Cameroon/Plan International partnership in the area of child rights (5,000 birth certificates issued in 2005, water supply facilities built), education (several classrooms built and equipped), health (health promotion) and community and capacity building and agriculture; - Increased involvement of civil society organizations in child advocacy and supervision. These include the Chantal Biya Foundation, African Synergies for AIDS control and human suffering, UNHABITAT, ASSEJA, COCADE, EIP, DET, ACAFAS, AGIR and Emmanuel Cameroon. Also, involvement of local decentralized authorities, including the street children project carried out by the Douala IVeme city council in partnership with the Strasbourg city council; - Signing of an agreement between the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Italian NGO, AIAS D‟AFRAGOLA, for the construction of a rehabilitation centre for handicapped persons at Maroua. This will contribute to improving technical facilities for testing and treating handicaps among children; - Introduction of child rights issues in religious talks and sermons (apostolic letter dated 9 October 2005 sent by Monsignor Paul Verdzekov, Archbishop of Bamenda, to all Christians about child trafficking; FEMEC training seminar for the church, on child rights at Kribi in July 2004; advocacy in August 2005 for adoption of specific legislation against slave trade, raising awareness of listeners during broadcasts by Catholics, protestants and Muslims on CRTV, Canal 2 international, STV 2 and faith-based radio networks); memorandum by the national secretary for private Islamic education making Islamic pre and primary schools free in the northern region, to combat endemic under-enrollment in the region. In Cameroon, faith-based schools are open to all children without discrimination; - Significant increase in public budget allocations to administrations in charge of carrying out child rights, namely Ministry of Urban Planning (MINEDUB), Ministry of Security (MINESEC), Ministry of Social Affairs, (MINAS), Ministry of Youth (MINJEUN), and Ministry of Health (MINSANTE); - Systematic formulation of ministerial and sectoral strategies, including social development, to improve planning of activities and allocation of resources needed to improve the living conditions of the people, especially children and other vulnerable persons; - Development of several programmes and projects PCIME, PNLS, PNLP, PPCOEV (Global Fund and Bi Multi), PEC (LUTRENA and WACAP), Cameroon-UNICEF Cooperation 2003-2007;