In the Special Session of the UN General Assembly
on Children, carried out in May of 2002, it was elaborated a document
named "A world fit for children".
In that document a Plan of Action for children was established that
propose the development of national action plans and, if it proceeds,
also regional plans for the end of 2003. The States Parties that
participated of the sessions assumed the commitment to apply this
Plan of Action, considering the possibility to adopt the following
measures:
1) Implement laws, policies and effective action
plans and assign resources to carry out and to protect the rights
of the children and to assure their well-being.
2) Establish or strengthen national organs as,
among other, independent mediators that defend the rights of the
children when it proceeds, or other institutions to promote and
to protect the rights of the children.
3) Elaborate national systems of surveillance and
evaluation to consider the effects of the measures adopted in connection
with the children.
4) Promote the conscience and the widespread understanding
of the children's rights.
Based on these objectives, the States began to work, with more or
less velocity, in the elaboration of the National Plans
of Action, being very varied the way in that this commitment
was assumed in the different countries of the world.
It is important to highlight that to be effective these plans must
guarantee the application of positive mechanisms to:
• Involve in their design and later execution all the government
organisms with power of decision that demonstrate a real interest
to include the topic of the childhood as a priority in the Public
Agenda of the governments.
• Include the participation of the civil society, through
their representative institutions or national or regional nets,
achieving that the same ones assume the commitment to collaborate
with the governments to guarantee that the national plans of action
contain measures of application of the CRC in each country.
• Achieve that children and youths participate actively in
the elaboration of the NPA, listening with attention their necessities
and ideas and allow opportunities to participate in arrangement
to their conditions they established, supporting their initiatives
and strengthening their capacities.
The Committee of the Child's Rights of the United Nations suggested
strategic steps for the elaboration of the Plans, indicating that
the same ones should deal with the changes of the public policies
and the necessary legislatives reformations within the framework
of the integral protection of the children's rights recognized in
the CRC, respecting the particular realities of
each country.
In turn, the NPA should be useful to make operative
the public policies in articulated and coordinated programs and
projects that optimize the rational use of the resources in order
to modify the general situation of the childhood.
The elaboration of these plans and their later application is part
of the commitments acquired in the World Summit of 2002 and each
plan should be constituted in an effective instrument to guarantee
the human rights of the children and adolescents in each country
and to become a historical possibility to change the world in favor
of them and to transform it in an "Appropriate World for children
and adolescents".
The inclusion of this topic in the agenda of the WorldForm
2004 reveals the importance of the same one and an opportunity
to know the state of advance of the National Plans in the different
countries of the world
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