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Organizing training sessions for receptionists of ‟hotels, specialized training
institutions and community-based stakeholders;
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Permanent awareness activities for tourists by designing a logo to be
embossed on travel documents or posted in tourist areas; fliers for distribution
in all areas frequented by tourists.
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Informing tourists about prevailing regulations and laws, at the time of booking
their travel;
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Introducing telephone hotlines;
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Advocacy to prohibit all forms of suggestive publicity;
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Introducing a training module for judges, the police, and social workers;
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Raising awareness among children and teachers, starting with a pilot exercise
in one of the northern provinces;
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MINEDUB and MINESEC preparing modules for family life education and on
population, focusing on combating of all forms of violence against children,
especially sexual exploitation of children;
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Toll-free numbers ;
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Adopting an ethics code for Cameroonian professionals;
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Raising awareness among parents;
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Ratification of two additional protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the
Child;
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Updating and validating the National Plan of Action on slavery and sexual
exploitation of children.
Furthermore, national NGOs like CASPCAN have carried out studies on sexual
abuse in Cameroon, using sex-disaggregated data, (girls: 84.31 per cent, boys 15.39 per
cent), types of abuse and other aspects of sexual exploitation of children.