Introduction
World Summit: Follow-up actions
The World Summit Plan of Action set out a range of measures for
follow-up actions and monitoring at the national
and international levels which were considered crucial if commitments
to goals and specific actions were to be fulfilled. These included
the formulation of national and subnational plans of action; the
re-examination of existing national and international programmes,
policies and budgets
to see how they could give higher priority to children; encouragement
of families, communities, social and religious institutions,
business and the mass media to support the goals of the Plan of
Action; establishment of mechanisms for the regular and timely collection
and publication of data to
monitor indicators on the well-being of children; strengthening
of arrangements for responding to natural
disasters and man-made calamities; and efforts by government,
industry and academic institutions aimed at technological breakthroughs,
more effective social mobilization and better delivery of services
to accelerate progress towards the Summit goals.
In the first 10 years of the implementation of the Convention
on the Rights of the Child, the Committee on the Rights of the Child
has urged States parties to adopt essentially the same set of measures,
including, in addition, heightened
advocacy and awareness, law
reform and the establishment of independent
offices to monitor, promote and protect children's rights.
More on World Summit follow-up actions
(NB the following pages are also linked from the
above paragraphs)
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