family heads by providing them with necessary inputs. Furthermore, as concerns child education, a Handbook on Community Schools was drafted and approved in 2013. It should be noted that efforts have been made to improve the support provided to families, through the implementation of support programmes and the putting in place of a support fund for the education of children from the least privileged families. However, human, technical and financial resources remain insufficient to effectively provide support to parents in the exercise of their responsibilities. As an example, it is worth mentioning the temporary stoppage of social workers’ training, which is hindering the implementation of population guidance programmes. To remedy the situation, there are plans to train and retrain social workers, as well as enhance lobbying activities in order to raise the financial resources of the social sector intended for family support. b) Parental Responsibilities (Art. 20) The Government organises information sessions for parents, especially women, on the modalities for collecting alimony for children in collaboration with technical and financial partners as well as Civil Society Organisations. In addition, legal and social assistance is provided to female heads of low-income single-parent families in the process of collecting alimony for children. In this regard, a legal assistance programme dubbed “Legal Clinics”, being implemented by the Civil Society in three Regions (Centre, Littoral and East) supports limited-income parents in the collection of alimony. The mixed progress recorded in this domain testifies to the limited scope of actions undertaken, due to the difficulties faced in implementing Law No. 2009/004 of 14 April 2009 on the organization of legal assistance, and the cumbersomeness of the procedure to benefit from such assistance. Data on legal assistance from 2010 to 2012 is not stable. To address the situation, several measures have been taken to include in the Civil Code (currently under review), concerns related to the collection of alimony for children which did not find satisfactory responses in existing instruments, especially by simplifying the procedure for benefiting from legal assistance. As such, the Government, through the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and the Family, developed a list of families that can temporarily welcome children deprived of family care. c) Adoption (Art. 24) In response to the provisions of the ACRWC, adoption-related concerns have been taken into consideration in the draft Civil Code under finalization. As concerns international adoption, Cameroon rejected the recommendation related thereto, during its passage before the Human Rights Council, as part of the 2013 Universal Periodic Review. The country, however, undertook to examine the possibility of ratifying The Hague Convention No. 33 (1993) on the Protection of Children and Cooperation in matters of International Adoption, after assessing the application process 28