relevant national partners, have developed training programmes to improve the technical capacities of key State officials and members of civil society to undertake the reform of children-related laws and policies and to prepare accurate and effective State reports under the African Children’s Charter. By 2020, CSOs/NGOs - • working on the rights of children should have obtained observer status with the African Children’s Committee and should be fully participating in the sessions and work of the Committee; • should have made use of the procedures before the African Children’s Committee, by submitting communications and shadow reports; • should have assisted with the translation into local languages, the popularisation and dissemination of the African Children’s Charter, the Committee’s activities and the rights of the child, more generally. 39