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.
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