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Apart from these two policy documents, there are other planning documents for child
protection. These include plans and programs aiming the same purpose of child
protection.
The National Policy and Strategy for Social Protection (PSNPS) carried out from 2004
to 2013 aimed at supporting vulnerable people, homes and communities, with a
strategic focus for the protection of children;
The programs stemming from the Growth Strategy for Poverty Reduction, which in its
intervention components from 2007 to 2009, and then from 2011 to 2015, included
actions aimed at family promotion, child protection and development, particularly
through the facilitation of access to care;
The Child Protection Policy and Strategies of November 2007 : through which
strategic lines of action have been defined to better identify the types of vulnerabilities
via efficiently coordinated actions and cooperation between partners and a more
effective implementation of the laws, with a focus on prevention, and improved child
participation;
The national policy for the promotion of gender, which is particularly aimed at
promoting gender equality in schools and at reducing school drop-out, on the one
hand, and on finding ways and means of combating early marriage ;
The policy of psycho-social care for people living with the human immunodeficiency
virus (PLWHA) and orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) (July 2006);
The National Plan for the Fight against Child Trafficking (2008-2012), which aimed to
identify and assess the situation of child exploitation in relation with child trafficking;
and then identify and strengthen the institutional and organizational legal frameworks
for the prevention, rehabilitation and reintegration of child victims of trafficking;
The National Action Plan on the Family (2009 to 2016) which analyzes the socioeconomic reality of the family in Benin, then decline the strategic lines of action for
building the economic capacities of families, improving access to social services, and
the protection of families with special needs
The National Action Plan for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour in
Benin (PAN) 2012-2015;
The National Policy for the Development of Justice Sector (PNDSJ) 2015-2025