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Sub Regional Project on Eradicating Child Domestic
Work and Child Trafficking in West and Central Africa
anti-slavery international march 2003
I Project Summary
II Code of Conduct for Improving the Treatment of Child Domestic Workers 
and Child Victims of Trafficking
II Recommendations for Project Follow up
Anti-Slavery International would like to thank the following for helping
to fund this project:
Community Fund International Grants Programme
UK Department for International Development
The John Ellerman Foundation
The Rufford Foundation
Sub Regional Project on Eradicating Child Domestic Work and Child Trafficking in West and Central Africa
1
Sub Regional Project on Eradicating Child
Domestic Work and Child Trafficking in West
and Central Africa
October 2000- December 2002
I Project Summary
II Code of Conduct for Improving the Treatment of Child Domestic Workers and Child 
Victims of Trafficking
II Recommendations for Project Follow up
I Project Summary
Child labour is a major concern for a large number of institutions. This is shown by research carried out into
different areas of child labour and investment in programmes for the education, training and rehabilitation of child
victims of economic exploitation or trafficking.
Over the past ten years, Anti-Slavery International has given priority to raising awareness of the circumstances and
conditions under which children work in domestic service in households other than those of their own families.
Anti-Slavery International initiated a sub-regional project to set up a network of NGOs in five West African countries
(Bénin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger and Togo) and one from Central Africa (Gabon), to work together for the
eradication of abusive forms of work and the worst forms of child labour.
The conditions of work of child domestics are a form of servitude. They are often victims of various forms of abuse
(corporal punishment, bad treatment, economic and sexual exploitation). Girls are the most vulnerable. The main
objective of their placement, which is to provide an opportunity for education or of training for the future, is not
respected and their future is compromised. Such children are invisible workers. The treatment and servitude that
child domestic workers suffer is akin to slavery. Their contribution to society is significant, both socially and
economically, but to the detriment of their dignity and fundamental rights.
The initiation of children into work as part of a traditional system of education has been perverted into a
commercial transaction that leads to the trafficking of children from villages to the towns and between countries
within West and Central Africa. The research and campaigns to alert the public to the negative aspects of this child
labour have provided information concerning the size of the market. The phenomenon persists despite government
concern and their commitment to introduce the necessary legislative measures. These efforts are praiseworthy, but
it is essential that legislation is adapted to the real situations of the children working away from home (visits to
parents, illegal movement and trafficking of children) and consolidated with clear mechanisms for criminalizing the
trafficking of children and prosecuting the traffickers.
Participation of children in discussions about their situation is indispensable to finding solutions for child labour,
deprivation of education, non respect for their dignity and general violations of a child's rights. There is also the
need to develop processes for consulting parents, employers, employers' associations and trade unions on issues
that need to be taken into account concerning child domestic workers of pre-school and school age. Collaboration
must be established between governments, bilateral institutions and national and international NGOs to develop
actions for the education and rehabilitation of child domestic workers and child victims of trafficking. This will
allow the phenomenon of child trafficking to be tackled at national, sub-regional and international levels. However,
evaluation of such interventions is needed to identify the responsibility for better coordination of this work with
the views of the child victims and their families.
Sub Regional Project on Eradicating Child Domestic Work and Child Trafficking in West and Central Africa
2
The project began by undertaking complementary research studies, establishing a network of NGOs and linking
them with international institutions working for the implementation of the Conventions concerning the human
rights of children and those covering the worst forms of child labour. Training of the NGO partners engaged in the
protection of child rights was an important element of the project in order to reinforce their capacity for intervention
on issues of child domestic work and child trafficking.
Various seminars and consultations were organised to consult children on the issues and to allow the NGO
partners to define acceptable norms for the employment of children as domestic servants (meeting of child
domestic workers from Bénin and Togo in Lomé in July 2001, national consultation in Bénin (Cotonou, 2/3
November 2001) and Togo (Lomé, 9 November 2001), and partner meeting for Burkina Faso and Niger (Niamey,
26/27 September 2002).
A sub-regional consultation for representatives of nine countries (Bénin, Burkina Faso, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea
Conakry, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo) was held in Lomé, Togo in December 2002, to analyse the reports from the
project, based on a summary report prepared by a consultant.
These discussions underlined the complexity of the issue of child labour. Child domestic workers are employed
within an informal family environment and cannot be integrated as a professional group within conventional
working systems. Such integration would presuppose an acceptance of the idea of child labour. Similarly the terms
norms and standards were also considered inappropriate as seeming to regularise the employment of children.
Such terminology implies the integration of child labour into the normal labour laws, whereas the context in which
children work is a social system which is neither determined by the laws nor included in national policies
concerning the well being and fundamental rights of children.
The aspects that guided the projects' thinking were:
• Τhe age of the child and its capacity to carry out the tasks required and the nature of those tasks;
• Τhe treatment of the children;
• Working conditions;
• Terms of employment;
• Hazardous work;
• Working environment;
• Methods of recruitment;
• Responsibility of parents, employers and members of employers' family;
• Τhe rural communities from where children are recruited;
• Dependence of the child on its employer, their isolation both within the employer's family and from other
child domestic workers;
• Their vulnerability and discrimination resulting from this.
This study of the situation allowed the preparation of a Code of Conduct for the treatment of child domestic
workers and child victims of trafficking. The Code of Conduct and Recommendations below are an extract from
the full report of the sub-regional project against child domestic work and the trafficking of children in West and
Central Africa.
II Code of Conduct for Improving the Treatment of Child 
Domestic Workers and Child Victims of Trafficking
Recommended by the Sub-Regional Project on Eradicating Child Domestic Work and Child Trafficking in West and
Central Africa (Lomé, December, 2002)
Age of child domestic worker and its capacity to carry our the tasks required 
Every child below thirteen/fourteen years of age ought not to be working.
Sub Regional Project on Eradicating Child Domestic Work and Child Trafficking in West and Central Africa
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This age limit is used because legislation in most West African countries considers that children of that age would
have finished compulsory schooling.   They can work or be apprenticed to a trade.   The social reality is that children
are placed in the care of relatives much earlier than school-going age.    Initiation into domestic work can easily
develop into abuse.  In such cases, if schooling is assured and the treatment is good enough (food, health, hours
of work, recreation/leisure), it is acceptable for a child to proceed with her stay in the host family in order to prepare
for her future.  However, it is recommended that the tasks that are expected of her are commensurate with her
physical capacity.  A child of school-going age who does not go to school and who is subject to inhuman treatment
must be removed from this situation (returned to her biological parents or placed in a social structure which will
ensure her education.
Working conditions, hazardous work and working environment
For child domestic workers it is necessary to establish a contract of employment in which are stipulated:
• The tasks to be carried out (in order to avoid having to carry out hazardous work);
• Hours of work, rest and weekly time off (for training or leisure);
• Wages (frequency and regularity of payment);
• Working environment adequate for the work expected. A child working in an unhealthy social 
environment, which could have a bad influence on her education, must be removed and sent to her 
parents or placed in a social structure, which will ensure her education.
Terms of employment, responsibility of parents, employers and members of
employers' family
Indications must be given as soon as the work begins about access to the work place, live-in accommodation,
sanctions (mistakes leading to reprimands or dismissal), relations with different members of the employer's family,
respect for the work timetable, visits by parents to their children's workplace (to break their isolation and to know
the employer), responsibility for the cost of medical care.
Methods of recruitment, responsibility of parents and communities
Recruitment of children for work outside their families of countries is very lucrative for traffickers in whom parents
place their hopes. They think they are making a considered choice for their children's future.  Experience has taught
them to the contrary.   Parents must be warned of the negative consequences of the employment of children
without opportunities for education and training for their future.    The interest of parents and children themselves
must be assured in order to avoid:
• Τhe isolation or complete separation for long periods or undetermined periods;
• The economic exploitation of children.
Parents should organise themselves to establish recruitment conditions for their children, taking into account
certain safeguards to ensure contact with their children.   The rural sending communities of child domestic workers
should put in place a system to control the movement of children who leave their areas.
Education and training
All child employment must compulsorily include: the education of below-age children and professional training for
children who have finished schooling, or for those who have never been to school, in order to ensure them an
economically independent future.
Sub Regional Project on Eradicating Child Domestic Work and Child Trafficking in West and Central Africa
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III Recommendations for Project Follow Up
The key points for the future made by the workshop (Lomé, December 2002) for the various actors are the
following:
1. For Partner Governments and NGOs
• Existence of clearly defined regulations for child trafficking and child domestic work that are regularly 
updated following consultations with NGOs;
• Existence of formal consultation mechanisms between the government and NGOs;
• Strengthening government and NGO cooperation in the countries where it already exists.
2. For National Legislation
• Ratification of the international legal instruments for the protection of children (already achieved in 
most cases);
• Harmonisation of national legislation with the international instruments that have been ratified;
• Regulation of systems in place for the protection of children;
• Regulation of the movements of children within countries.
3. For Sub-Regional Legislation
• It is recommended that formal systems are put in place for the repatriation of child trafficking victims and
for their reintegration on return. It was suggested that the International Organisation for Migration could 
help financially in establishing such systems.
• In March 2002, the country partners and the project participants attended a regional meeting in Bamako
(Mali) to consider the harmonisation of their national legislation under the framework of the "Bamako 
principles for the harmonisation of national legislation against the exploitation of children within 
francophone Africa and other African countries". These guiding principles concern: the protection of 
children against all forms of sexual and/or economic exploitation, the protection of children against all 
forms of ill treatment and/or violence, fixing the minimum age for obligatory education at 15 years, rules 
on child work that meet the ILO Conventions on Minimum Age and on the Worst Forms of Child Labour. The
workshop encouraged governments to complete their harmonisation work.
4. For the Partner Countries and the Project Partners
• Set up national and sub regional data collection centres for information concerning child trafficking and 
child labour;
• Set up a reception centre for returned, trafficked children in each country;
• Hold regular sub-regional meetings to exchange experiences;
• Reinforce the gains of the awareness campaigns (support of the international institutions/NGOs for 
campaigning follow up);
• Set up a permanent structure for the network;
Sub Regional Project on Eradicating Child Domestic Work and Child Trafficking in West and Central Africa
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• Distribution of the manual (a handbook on advocacy. Child Domestic Workers: Finding a voice; Anti-
Slavery International 2002) and training of specialists in its use;
• Diffusion and distribution of the Code of Conduct (adopted at the sub regional consultation held in Lomé
in December 2002) to those individuals and institutions involved in the promotion and protection of the 
rights of child domestic workers.
Conclusion: the Impact of the Project on NGOs
1. At the National Level
The NGO project partners, with the support of the media, have added to the knowledge of the situation of child
domestic workers and the phenomenon of the trafficking of children (research studies and national workshops).
Some journalists expect to include these themes within their regular reporting, thus establishing a permanent link
to the NGOs involved in the issue.
They have established or improved their links with the institutions of the State, international agencies and other
partners on the ground.
They have set up national networks of NGOs working on the issues of child domestic work and the trafficking 
of children.
2. At the Sub-Regional Level
The development of a sub-regional network has permitted the exchange of information between the NGO project
partners, national heads of the international agencies and with other organisations involved in the promotion of
the human rights of children.
The representatives of the countries invited to the sub-regional meeting (Gabon, Guinea Conakry, Mali, Senegal)
have asked to become part of this sub-regional network.
The project partners have decided to make the network permanent and have named it Action Group Against Child
Work and Trafficking/Child Domestic Workers (GAAT/CDW).
March 2003
Anti-Slavery International
Thomas Clarkson House, The Stableyard
Broomgrove Road, London SW9 9TL
Tel: +44(0)20 7501 8920 Fax:+44(0)20 7738 4110
e-mail:antislavery@antislavery.org
website: www.antislavery.org
Anti-Slavery International is committed to eliminating all forms of slavery in the world today,
including: debt bondage, forced labour, forced marriage, the worst forms of child labour, human
trafficking and traditional slavery. We campaign for slavery's eradication, press governments 
to implement national and international laws against slavery and support local organisations' 
initiatives to release victims of slavery by exposing current cases. It is inconceivable that in the
21st century, slavery is allowed to exist. We will continue the fight against it until everyone is free.


Sub-Regional Project on Eradicating Child Domestic Work and Child Trafficking in West and Central Africa

Sub Regional Project on Eradicating Child Domestic Work and Child
Trafficking in West and Central Africa
Code of Conduct
Anti-Slavery International
Thomas Clarkson House, The Stableyard
Broomgrove Road, London SW9 9TL
tel: +44(0)20 7501 8920
fax:+44(0)20 7738 4110
email:antislavery@antislavery.org
www.antislavery.org
Enfants Solidaires d’Afrique et 
du Monde (ESAM)
08 B.P. 0049 TRI Postal
Cotonou  Benin
tel: + 229 30 52 37  
fax: + 229 31 38 37
email: esam@firstnet.bj
Groupe de Recherche - Action pour un
Développment Endogène de la Femme 
Rural du Burkina (GRADE)
01 B.P.  3656 Ouagadougou 01  
Burkina Faso
tel: + 226 43 51 33
fax: + 226 31 26 53
email: grade_frb@yahoo.fr
Action Contre L’Exploitation des Enfants 
et des Femmes (ACEEF)
B.P. 2640  Immeubles Fouad
Quartier Chinois  Conakry Guinea
tel: + 224 11 54 95 48 
fax: + 224 13 40 12 99
email: ongaceef@yahoo.fr
COCTE/Vidomegon
BP 2433 Libreville
tel: + 241 333130/521230
email: coctelibga@yahoo.fr
Association pour la Lutte contre le 
Travail des Enfants au Niger
(ALTEN)Organisation pour la Prevention du 
Travail des Enfants au Niger (OPTEN)
Stade Général Seyni  Kountché Porte 1135 
Niamey  Niger
tel/fax: + 227 72 48 52
email: alten.opten@caramail.com
WAO Afrique 
B.P. 80242399 168 Rue Tokoin
Solidarite  Lome  Togo
tel: + 228 225 89 90  
fax: + 228 2173 45 
email: wao.afrique@bibway .com
The African Centre for Human Development
C 407/4A Homowo Road
Kokomlemle  Accra
PO. Box 0S 273  Osu  
Accra  Ghana.
tel: + 233-21 223031, 020-8167434
fax: 024-780427
email: achd@africaonline.com.gh
The impact of the project 
on NGOs 
At the national level
The NGO project partners, with the support of
the media, have added to the knowledge of
the situation of child domestic workers and
the phenomenon of the trafficking of children
(research studies and national workshops).
Some journalists expect to include these
themes within their regular reporting, thus
establishing a permanent link to the NGOs
involved in the issue. They have established
or improved their links with the institutions 
of the State, international agencies and 
other partners on the ground.  They have 
set up national networks of NGOs working 
on the issues of child domestic work and 
the trafficking of children.
At the sub-regional Level
The development of a sub-regional network
has permitted the exchange of information
between the NGO project partners, national
heads of the international agencies and 
with other organisations involved in the
promotion and protection of the human
rights of children.
“… The child occupies a unique and
privileged position in African Society
and that for the full harmonious
development of his personality, the
child should grow up in a family
environment in an atmosphere of
happiness, love and understanding”
and “ … due to the needs of his
physical and mental development
requires particular care with regard to
health, physical, mental, moral and
social development, and requires legal
protection in conditions of freedom,
dignity and security.” 
“Taking into consideration the virtues
of their cultural heritage, historical
background and the values of the
African civilization should inspire and
characterise reflection on the concept
of the rights and welfare of the child.”
Preamble, African Charter on the Rights 
and Welfare of the Child, 1990 
Anti-Slavery International would like to thank the
following for helping to fund this project: 
Community Fund International Grants Programme
UK Department for International Development
The Baring Foundation
The John Ellerman Foundation
The Rufford Foundation
all illustrations: Peter Williamson
Anti-Slavery International is committed to eliminating all forms of slavery in the world
today, including: debt bondage, forced labour, forced marriage, the worst forms of child
labour, human trafficking and traditional slavery. We campaign for slavery’s eradication,
press governments to implement national and international laws against slavery and
support local organisations’ initiatives to release victims of slavery by exposing current
cases. It is inconceivable that in the 21st century, slavery is allowed to exist. We will
continue the fight against it until everyone is free.  
have been ratified;
l Regulation of systems in place for the 
protection of children;
l Regulation of the movements of 
children within countries.
For sub-regional legislation
l It is recommended that formal systems 
are put in place for the repatriation of 
child trafficking victims and for their 
reintegration on return. It was 
suggested that the International 
Organisation for Migration could help 
financially in establishing such 
systems.
l In March 2002, the country partners 
and the project participants attended a 
regional meeting in Bamako (Mali) to 
consider the harmonisation of their 
national legislation under the 
framework of the “Bamako Principles 
for the harmonisation of national 
legislation against the exploitation of 
children within francophone Africa and 
other African countries”. These guiding 
principles concern: the protection of 
children against all forms of sexual 
and/or economic exploitation, the 
protection of children against all forms 
of ill treatment and/or violence, fixing 
the minimum age for obligatory 
education at 15 years, rules on child 
work that meet the ILO Conventions on 
Minimum Age and on the Worst Forms 
of Child Labour. The workshop 
encouraged governments to complete 
their harmonisation work. 
For the partner countries and the 
project partners
l Set up national and sub regional data 
collection centres for information 
concerning child trafficking and child 
labour;
l Set up a reception centre for returned, 
trafficked children in each country;
l Hold regular sub-regional meetings to 
exchange experiences;
l Reinforce the gains of the awareness 
campaigns (support of the international
institutions/NGOs for campaigning 
follow up);
l Set up a permanent structure for the 
network;
l Distribution of the manual (Child 
Domestic Workers: Finding a voice; 
A handbook on advocacy. Anti- Slavery 
International 2002) and training of 
specialists in its use;
l Diffusion and distribution of the Code 
of Conduct (adopted at the sub regional
consultation held in Lomé, December 
2002) to those individuals and 
institutions involved in the promotion 
and protection of the rights of child 
domestic workers.  
Sub regional project on
eradicating child domestic 
work and child trafficking in
west and central Africa
Code of conduct
The age of child a domestic worker and
his/her capacity to carry out the tasks
required - every child below fourteen years
of age ought not to be working. 
This age limit is used because legislation in
most West African countries considers that
children of that age would have finished
compulsory schooling. They can work or be
apprenticed to a trade. The social reality is
that children are placed in the care of
relatives much earlier than school-going
age. Initiation into domestic work can
easily develop into abuse. In such cases, if
schooling is assured and the treatment is
good enough (food, health, hours of work,
recreation/leisure), it is acceptable for a
child to proceed with his/her stay in the
host family in order to prepare or their
future. However, it is recommended that
the tasks that are expected of them are
commensurate with their physical capacity.
A child of school-going age who does not
go to school and who is subject to inhuman
treatment must be removed from this
situation (returned to their biological
parents or placed in a social structure,
which will ensure their education.
Working conditions, hazardous work and
working environment 
For child domestic workers it is necessary
to establish a contract of employment in
which are stipulated:
l The tasks to be carried out (in order to 
avoid having to carry out hazardous 
work);
l Hours of work, rest and weekly time off 
(for training or leisure);
l Wages (frequency and regularity of 
payment);
l Working environment adequate for the 
work expected. A child working in an 
unhealthy social environment, which 
could have a bad influence on her 
education, must be removed and sent 
to her parents or placed in a social 
structure, which will ensure her 
education.
Methods of recruitment, responsibility of
parents and communities
Recruitment of children for work outside
their families or countries is very lucrative
for traffickers in whom parents place their
hopes. They think they are making a
considered choice for their children’s
future. Experience has taught them to the
contrary. Parents must be warned of the
negative consequences of the employment
of children without opportunities for
education and training for their future.
Parents should organise themselves to
establish recruitment conditions for their
children, taking into account certain
safeguards to ensure contact with their
children. The rural sending communities of
child domestic workers should put in place
a system to control the movement of
children who leave their areas. The interest
of parents and children themselves must
be assured in order to avoid:
l The isolation or complete separation for 
long periods or undetermined periods;
l The economic exploitation of children.
Education and training
All child employment must compulsorily
include the education of children of school
going age and professional training for
children who have finished schooling, or
for those who have never been to school,
in order to ensure them an economically
independent future.
Project Summary
Child labour is a major concern for a large
number of institutions. This is shown by
research carried out into different areas of
child labour and investment in programmes
for the education, training and
rehabilitation of child victims of economic
exploitation or trafficking. Over the past ten
years, Anti-Slavery International has given
priority to raising awareness of the
circumstances and conditions under which
children work in domestic service in
households other than those of their own
families. Anti-Slavery International and its
partners from Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana,
Niger and Togo and Gabon, initiated a sub-
regional project to set up a network to work
for the eradication of abusive forms of work
and the worst forms of child labour.
The conditions of work of child domestics
are often a form of servitude. They may be
victims of various forms of abuse (corporal
punishment, bad treatment, economic and
sexual exploitation). Girls are the most
vulnerable. The main objective of their
placement, which is to provide an
opportunity for education or of training for
the future, is not respected and their future
is compromised. Such children are invisible
workers. The treatment and servitude that
child domestic workers suffer is akin to
slavery. Their contribution to society is
significant, both socially and economically,
but to the detriment of their dignity and
fundamental rights.
The initiation of children into work as part
of a traditional system of education has
been perverted into a commercial
transaction that leads to the trafficking of
children from villages to the towns and
between countries within West and Central
Africa. The research and campaigns to alert
the public to the negative aspects of this
child labour have provided information
concerning the size of the market. The
phenomenon persists despite government
concern and their commitment to introduce
the necessary legislative measures. These
efforts are praiseworthy, but it is essential
that legislation is adapted to the real
situations of the children working away
from home (visits to parents, illegal
movement and trafficking of children) and
consolidated with clear mechanisms for
criminalizing the trafficking of children and
prosecuting the traffickers. 
Participation of children in discussions
about their situation is indispensable to
finding solutions for child labour,
deprivation of education, non-respect for
their dignity and general violations of a
child’s rights. There is also the need to
develop processes for consulting parents,
employers, employers’ associations and
trade unions on issues that need to be
taken into account concerning child
domestic workers of pre-school and school
age. Collaboration must be established
between governments, bilateral institutions
and national and international NGOs to
develop actions for the education and
rehabilitation of child domestic workers
and child victims of trafficking. This will
allow the phenomenon of child trafficking
to be tackled at national, sub-regional and
international levels. However, evaluation of
such interventions is needed to identify the
responsibility for better coordination of this
work with the views of the child victims and
their families.
The project began by undertaking
complementary research studies,
establishing a network of NGOs and linking
them with international institutions working
for the implementation of the Conventions
concerning the human rights of children
and those covering the worst forms of child
labour. Training of NGO partners engaged
in the protection of child rights was an
important element of the project in order to
reinforce their capacity for intervention on
issues of child domestic work and child
trafficking. Various seminars and
consultations were organised to consult
children on the issues and to allow the
NGO partners to define acceptable norms
for the employment of children as domestic
servants.
Discussions underlined the complexity of
the issue of child labour. Child domestic
workers are employed within an informal
family environment and cannot be
integrated as a professional group within
conventional working systems. Such
integration would presuppose an
acceptance of the idea of child labour.
Similarly the terms norms and standards
were also considered inappropriate as
seeming to regularise the employment 
of children. Such terminology implies the
integration of child labour into the normal
labour laws, whereas the context in which
children work is a social system which is
neither determined by the laws nor
included in national policies concerning
the well being and fundamental rights 
of children.
The aspects that guided the projects’
thinking were:
l The age of the child and its capacity to 
carry out the tasks required and the 
nature of those tasks
l The treatment of children
l Working conditions
l Terms of employment
l Hazardous work
l Working environment
l Methods of recruitment
l Responsibility of parents, employers 
and members of employers’ family
l The rural communities from where 
children are recruited
l Dependence of the child on its 
employer, their isolation both within 
the employer’s family and from other 
child domestic workers and their 
vulnerability and discrimination 
resulting from this.
Research and discussion of the problem
resulted in the preparation of this Code of
Conduct for the treatment of child domestic
workers and child victims of trafficking. The
Code of Conduct and Recommendations
below are an extract from the full report 
of the sub-regional project against child
domestic work and the trafficking of
children in West and Central Africa, which
is available in French and English
www.antislavery.org
Recommendations
For partner governments and NGOs:
l Existence of clearly defined regulations 
for child trafficking and child domestic 
work that are regularly updated 
following consultations with NGOs;
l Existence of formal consultation 
mechanisms between the government 
and NGOs;
l Strengthening government and NGO 
cooperation in the countries where it 
already exists.
For national legislation
l Ratification of the international legal 
instruments for the protection of 
children (already achieved in most 
cases);
l Harmonisation of national legislation 
with the international instruments that 


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