Traduction de «Comité interministériel de l'Année de l'enfant » (Français → Anglais) :

Interdepartmental Committee on the Year of the Child

Interdepartmental Committee for the IYF [ Interdepartmental Committee for the International Year of the Family ]

Interdepartmental Committee on Child Abuse

However, analysis of the progress made in the light of the 4 common objectives reveals that: (a) the measures concerned with promoting access to the labour market have, in tandem with the NAP/empl, achieved considerable success; (b) pursuit of the reform of the social protection system has not affected attainment of the goals inherent in the Minimum Guaranteed Income scheme (scheme combining financial benefits with a socio-occupational integration plan); (c) the aim of having all persons in a situation of exclusion sign a "social integration contract" within one year was too ambitious and was difficult both to implement and to evaluate, since it requires multisectoral involvement and since the universe of individuals to be covered remains ...[+++] undefined (the same comment applies to the individualised follow-up of children and young persons within three months); (d) the setting up of a national social welfare helpline has made it easier for certain priority groups to obtain information and a rapid response to their problems; (e) the "Urban Social Development Contracts" and the "Rural Areas and Social Development" project, which were aimed at tackling the problems of the regional nature of exclusion, were abandoned for budgetary and policy reasons; (f) as regards mobilising stakeholders in the process, the Interministerial Monitoring Committee, set up expressly to monitor the NAPincl, operated only intermittently and its composition had to be altered following the change of government, hence its impact as an institutional co-ordination forum has been established only gradually; as regards civil society, the vague reference to the Co-operation and Social Solidarity Pact and the project for the creation of an NGOs Forum illustrates the low degree of involvement of these players.

Senator Andreychuk and I have been over this ground before, and we now know that there is the Inter-Ministerial Standing Committee on Child Rights. It exists, but some years ago there used to be a quite effective inter-ministerial working group on children that was very helpful at the time of the Victoria summit of sexually exploited youth.

For example, Sweden ’s Ministry of Health and Social Affairs has a Coordination Secretariat whose role is to work at a general level to coordinate processes so as to ensure that the perspective of the child is reflected in all levels of government policy, as well as to prepare Sweden ’s country report to the UN Committee.[257] England also has a cross departmental Cabinet Subcommittee on Domestic Affairs (Children’s Policy) that consists of representatives from all departments that meet regularly to ensure cross-departmental implementation of the Convention in England.[258] Judy Finlay, Ontario ’s Child Advocate, emphasized the need f ...[+++]or federal leadership in this regard, stating that

The suggested terms of reference for such committees could easily be replicated to create a similar interdepartmental body responsible for overseeing the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.