adoption of appropriate policies, programs and legislation; • Promote the adoption of mechanisms and measures that allow greater participation of women in decision-making sphere; • Promoting equal rights and opportunity between men and women in civic, economic, social and cultural areas; • Advocating and protecting women, motherhood and the family against all forms of violation of human rights, establishing the political, institutional and legal conditions for the physical, mental and intellectual development of the child; • Ensuring an integrated approach to gender in policies, national development programs and legislation; • Ensuring the existence of national strategies, programs and legislation to protect women, children and society against harmful practices, all forms of discrimination, domestic violence, sexual abuse, exploitation and other practices that endanger the health and physical integrity of women and children; • Strengthening the family's role in moral and civic education and training, based on the defense of values, moral and ethical principles, that underpin the unity, cohesion and balance of Guinean society; • Ensuring the improvement of the legal and institutional framework of parents in the defense and promotion of the rights of women, children and the family. 3.3.2. Participatory Integration 55. The different mechanisms established in a permanent or specific manner, are used here to respond to concrete situations, with a well-defined structure, generally by means of order, decree, resolution of superstructure or intermediate entities. 3.3.3. Coordination and Interaction 56. Coordination actions at various levels of intervention among similar institutions with similar objectives, regarding children's issues and motivate the interaction among different actors to seek consensus or solutions that contribute to improving the deliverables required by all. 57. The Ministry for Social Solidarity, Family and Fight against Poverty (MSSFLP), is a government institution responsible for establishing, implementing and monitoring government policy in the areas of the family and the fight against poverty. Although the Directorate-General for Social Solidarity and Family, whose functions are confined to the problem of social protection of vulnerable groups, the MSSFLP, in its organizational chart, includes the Institute for Woman and Child (IMC). This institution, has been granted the prerogatives of coordinating policies and implementing Government strategies concerning the promotion of women's and children's rights. 15

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