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discrimination, the best interests of the child, survival and development, and participation,
universality, transparency and accountability in all governmental actions and processes
related to it;
(b)
To make children a priority in budgetary allocations and spending as a means
to ensure the highest return on the limited resources available;
(c)
To take steps to improve interministerial coordination and cooperation
regarding investment in the rights of the child at all levels, to ensure, as appropriate, that
subnational authorities have the necessary financial, human and other resources to
effectively discharge their assigned responsibilities, and to implement safeguards to ensure
that decentralization or devolution does not lead to discrimination in the enjoyment of
rights by children in different regions;
23.
Calls upon States, regardless of their level of development or resource
constraints, to ensure the satisfaction of, at the very least, the minimum essential levels of
enjoyment of all economic, social and cultural rights by making every effort to use the
resources that are at their disposal to satisfy as a matter of priority these minimum levels;
24.
Emphasizes that, where the available resources are demonstrably inadequate,
States are still required to take targeted measures to move as expeditiously and effectively
as possible towards the full realization of the rights of the child, including within the
framework of international cooperation;
VII.
Holistic child protection systems
25.
Calls upon all States to take all necessary measures to establish holistic child
protection systems, including through laws, policies, regulations and appropriate budget
allocation, to ensure access to services across all social sectors, including but not limited to
health and nutrition, education, social welfare, security and justice, in order to address the
multiple needs and underlying vulnerabilities of all children without any discrimination;
26.
Reminds States of their obligation to register births without discrimination of
any kind, and calls upon States to do so irrespective of the status of the child’s parents, and
to ensure free birth registration, including free or low-fee late birth registration limited to
cases that would otherwise result in a lack of registration, by means of universal, accessible,
simple, expeditious and effective registration procedures, without discrimination of any
kind, as a means for providing an official record of the existence of a person and the
recognition of that individual as a person before the law, and granting access to services
and enjoyment of all the rights to which the child is entitled;
27.
Calls upon all States to take all necessary measures to ensure that the rights
of the child to life, survival and development and to the enjoyment of the highest attainable
standard of physical and mental health are promoted, protected and fulfilled, without
discrimination of any kind, including through the development and implementation of laws,
strategies and policies, with appropriate budgeting and resource allocation and adequate
investment in resilient and responsive health systems and public health services, with an
adequately skilled, well-trained and motivated workforce, and ensuring its availability,
accessibility, affordability, acceptability and quality;
28.
Also calls upon States to make progress towards the implementation of
universal health coverage and to ensure access to all people, including children, without
discrimination, to a nationally determined set of promotive, preventive, curative and
rehabilitative health services, including sexual and reproductive health-care services, and to
identify the underlying determinants of children’s health and risk factors of both noncommunicable and communicable diseases;
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