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A. OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME

1. General objective: To create a strong switch of concept and action in the whole society about the protection of children. To prevent, gradually reduce and eventually solve substantially by the year 2002 the question of children wandering in search of a living, children having to work in hard and noxious conditions, children abused on their lives, health, dignity and honour and law offending children.

2. Concrete objectives:

- To prevent, gradually reduce and eventually solve in a fundamental way by the year 2002 the question of children wandering in search of living . To settle fundamentally by the year 2002 the question of children under 15 years old of age having to work in hard, noxious and dangerous conditions.

- To prevent, gradually reduce and eventually solve fundamentally by the year 2002 the question of children abused or their dignity and honour and sexually abused, especially for commercial purpose; to organize the education and medical treatment for and reintegration of these children into the community.

- To check the spread, gradually reduce and eventually eradicate by the year 2002 the use of drugs among children.

- To struggle to prevent, gradually reduce the kinds of crime of abusing children (such as murder of children, child rapes, kidnapping, traffic or swapping children, inducement of children to use drugs, serious maltreatment of children ...) and criminality in the child age. To fundamentally reduce by the year 2002 the commitment of serious crimes by children.

B. MAIN PROJECTS OF THE PROGRAMME

- Project 1: To check and settle the question of children wandering in search of a living and the abuse of child labour.

- Project 2: To prevent the abuse of the dignity and honour of children, sexual abuse of children especially for commercial purpose.

- Project 3: To prevent and combat the use of drugs among children,

- Project 4: To struggle to prevent and combat the crimes against children and criminality in the child age.

- Project 5: To organize the popularization, education and consultancy in different forms (such as communication centres, education and consulting centres) for the families and communities on the protection and care for children with special circumstances

1. To elaborate, complement and perfect the legal system and policies on the protection of children, concentrating on elaborating draft laws for submission to the X^th National Assembly: the draft Law on Criminal Proceeding (amended) the Law on Marriage and the Family (amended), the Law on Protection Care and Education of Children (amended).

   To elaborate and issue in time the regulatory and legal documents in order to direct the implementation of the above Laws right after they are adopted by the National Assembly. The ministries, branches and the People's Committees in the localities should continue directing the implementation of the current regulatory and legal documents on the protection of children in order to make a vigorous progress in this work.
   
   

2. To step up the legal education. To organize the regular popularization and education and to launch widespread communication campaigns in the whole country as well as in key areas, key groups of the population with a view to raising their knowledge and sense of responsibility and the sense of duty of all branches, all echelons and communities and all families for the protection of children. To pay importance to guiding the families and communities in the education of children especially girls and other children in the 12-15 age group.
   
   

3. The agencies managing socio-economic programmes (at the centre and in the localities) the national target programs, especially the national target programmes (eradication of hunger, alleviation of poverty, employment, prevention and fight against crime, prevention and fight against HIV/AIDS) It is a necessary to bring the targets of this program into the above programmes and to elaborate a support plan for the families with children with special circumstances and for the children with specially difficult circumstances themselves.
   
   

4. To mobilize the integrated strength of entire society into the protection of children. To build a healthy living environment in society. To continue mobilizing the masses to build a movement of the entire population taking part in the protection of children. To build and implement the status for coordinate in protecting, caring for and educating children in the family, at the school in the society. To encourage the establishment of the networks and interlinked and cooperative activities among the law enforcement agencies and specialized agency with regard to children, the communication agencies, the mass organizations, the social organizations, the families, the economic units and charitable individuals.
   
   

5. To promote international cooperation in the protection of children on the principle of conforming with the national and international laws: to increase the mobilization of the international resources in support of the Programme; to increase the exchange of information and experiences among the nations in the region and in the world on this work.
   
   

6. To build a mechanism of coordinating actions among branches, to build policies toward the forces engaged in social work, the network of volunteers working with the children at the grassroots. To raise the capacity of work of the agencies and mass organization related to the strategy of protecting the children with special circumstances (including prevention, settlement, rehabilitation and reintegration into the community). To increase research on the objects and the strategy of protecting children.

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Notes:  Other part of the Plan of Action deals with assignment of responsibilities of concerned ministries and agencies.