E/C.12/VEN/CO/3 enforced and by strengthening child labour monitoring mechanisms and support measures for poor families. The Committee urges the State party to include in its next report disaggregated statistical data that will allow it to assess the incidence of economic exploitation in the State party. Domestic violence 23. The Committee is concerned about the low number of investigations and convictions in cases of violence against women and the absence of a national s trategy for the prevention of domestic and gender-based violence (art. 10). 40. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Effectively investigate, prosecute and punish all acts of domestic and gender-based violence; (b) Develop a coherent strategy to prevent domestic and gender-based violence, including campaigns to raise general public awareness of the negative effects of domestic and gender-based violence; (c) Carry out training programmes on the criminal and serious nature of domestic and gender-based violence aimed at public officials, such as law enforcement officials, prosecutors and judges, as well as social workers and teaching staff. (d) Extend the protection for victims of domestic and gender-based violence, inter alia, by establishing a sufficient number of shelters nationwide, including for individuals belonging to indigenous peoples. Poverty 24. Despite the significant reduction of poverty due to the implementation of social programmes known as “missions”, the Committee notes with concern that in recent years there has been a downward trend in the results of poverty reduction efforts (art. 11). The Committee recommends that the State party should undertake a comprehensive and independent evaluation of the so-called “missions” in order to identify the obstacles to further progress in the fight against poverty. Thereafter it should take the necessary corrective measures, while ensuring that these and other programmes with similar goals have a human rights-based approach and sufficient resources for their implementation and paying due attention to disparities and gaps between urban and rural areas and to the needs of the most disadvantaged and marginalized groups. Right to adequate housing 25. Notwithstanding the progress made in the area of housing with the roll-out of the Great Venezuelan Housing Mission and the involvement of various citizens ’ movements, the Committee is concerned at the continued existence of informal settlements, the persistent housing shortage in the State party and at reports concerning defects in the dwellings that have been built and the deterioration of the urban environment (art. 11). In the light of its general comment No. 4 (1991) on the right to adequate housing, the Committee recommends that the State party adopt a comprehensive social housing strategy that: (a) Is based on the right of every individual to adequate and affordable housing, with clearly defined standards of quality and habitability; GE.15-11219 7/10