are enrolled at the International School "Chikh Bouamama" considering the language
constraints, and through a partnership with NADA Network, the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, Ministry of Education and the Office of the United Nations Refugee Agency
(UNHCR). All of them enjoy all the rights to health and recreation.
In 2009, a joint UNHCR-WFP mission observed low level qualifications of health
workers in the camps and the overlap of several different programmes for children
below five and pregnant and breastfeeding women. The integration of all these
activities into a single programme, the Integrated Health Programme of the Saharawi
child (Programa Integral de Salud Infantil Sahrawi - Pisis) nearly took a year of
collaboration with all partners in these activities and health authorities in the camps.
The creation of Pisis has harmonized criteria for the implementation of international
standards and provides support and advice on the ground to health care workers. After
endorsing the guidelines of Pisis in early 2010, additional training and support at the
clinical level have improved the implementation of the programme and its activities
and provided basic skills for health workers. The Pisis consists of several protocols to
improve the health and nutritional status of children below five in the refugee camps
of the Western Sahara including the treatment of the most common childhood
diseases, treatment of severe and moderate acute malnutrition and anaemia,
prevention of chronic malnutrition, growth monitoring and raising awareness on
hygiene and nutrition.
b) Children in armed conflict, including specific measures for the protection and
supervision of children (article 22 of the ACRWC):
284.In this context, it should be noted that the Algerian national law is in full
conformity with the relevant provisions of the African Charter on the Rights and
Welfare of the Child and the UN Convention on the Rights of child and its Optional
Protocol, based on the following regulations:
a. Ordinance No. 74-103 of 15 November 1974 (Chapter I, art.1) (Gazette of 10
December 1974), on the National Service Code, which sets the minimum recruitment
age of conscription to 19 years;
b. Presidential Decree No. 08-134 of 6 May 2008 (Chapter II, Art.10) (Gazette No.
24 of May 11, 2008), establishing the conditions for recruitment of professional
officers in the National People's Army at the age of 18 pursuant to Ordinance No. 0602 of 28 February 2006 on the general status of military personnel (Gazette No 12 of
11 March 2006).
285.It should be noted that this regulatory provisions apply to contracted military
officers, NCOs and mainly to lower rank officers and, by extrapolation to higher rank
officers based on a regulation dating from 1969 (Ordinance No. 69-90 of 31 October
1969 on the status of lower rank officers of the active ANP /Gazette No. 95 of 11
November 1969) and this is waiting to become a presidential decree.
286.To support the victims of the national tragedy, legislative and regulatory
provisions of the Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation were put in place,
these are:
Ordinance No. 06-01 of 27 February 2006 on the implementation of the Charter for
Peace and National Reconciliation, Presidential Decree No. 06-93 of 28 February
2006 relating to the compensation of victims of the national tragedy, and Presidential
Decree No. 06-94 of 28 February 2006 concerning the aid for poor families affected
by the involvement of one of their relatives in terrorism.
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