The Children’s Committee will co-ordinate the implementation, monitoring and evaluation at the continental level. It will, on a continuous basis, collect and share best practices, as emerging from the State-reporting process, reports by civil society organisations and otherwise. Children should be involved in the monitoring and accountability process for this At the national level, the State co-ordinates an annual review of progress and Agenda. remaining challenges in achieving the objectives of each Action Plan, by facilitating a stakeholder platform or meeting, attended by all relevant stakeholders, including nonState partners and children, to review the achievements towards the implementation of the Agenda. State parties undertake to consolidate these annual reviews into a comprehensive report for each of the five phases, and to submit these reports to the African Children’s Committee. After the end of every period in the five-phased implementation process (2020, 2025, 2030, 2035 and 2040), the African Children’s Committee will facilitate a stakeholders’ platform meeting in respect of State parties, attended by all relevant stakeholders, including non-State partners and children, to review the achievements relating to the implementation of the Agenda at the national and regional level, in order to identify the main challenges and formulate priorities for the following five years. Following the stakeholder platform, the African Children’s Committee will submit The Action Plan for the first phase, ending in 2020, is attached to this Agenda. the outcome of these deliberations in the form of State of the Africa’s Children Report to the Assembly of the Union. The relevant AU organs will develop an Action Plan for each of the subsequent five-year periods, based on the results of the assessment of the previous period by State parties and the AU Assembly. There is a need for reliable data-gathering system 34