CRC/C/TJK/CO/2 Committee also recommends that the State party establish follow-up and evaluation mechanisms to assess progress achieved and identify possible deficiencies. Allocation of resources 16. The Committee welcomes the reforms made in financing the education and health sectors. Nevertheless, the Committee notes that the investments in the areas of health, education and social protection remain very low, and comprise very small percentages of the GDP. The Committee notes that, as a result of the international economic crisis, the remittances from Tajik migrant workers abroad, which amounted to a significant proportion (30 per cent) of the GDP, have decreased dramatically. In addition, the Committee notes the lack of information about the subsidy programmes and their monitoring mechanisms. The Committee notes that much effort needs to be made by the State party to ensure transparent and efficient budgetary management and evaluation of the impact of investments on children. 17. The Committee recommends the full implementation of article 4 of the Convention by: (a) Increasing substantially the budget allocations for education, health and social protection of children and strengthening the effectiveness of existing systems; (b) Elaborating strategic budgetary programmes to reduce the disparities and to target the rights of disadvantaged groups, including children with disabilities, children living in poverty, children living in remote areas, children infected with HIV/AIDS, orphans, girls and others; (c) Strengthening the capacity of public officers in budgeting, planning, monitoring and evaluating the impact of the investments at the central and local levels; (d) Creating monitoring and evaluation systems for various existing subsidy programmes; (e) Creating a transparent system in order to eradicate corruption and to ensure that allocations targeting children reach their beneficiaries. Data collection 18. While noting that some efforts to reform the national statistics system have been undertaken by the State party, the Committee remains concerned that data for persons under 18 years of age relating to the rights contained in the Convention is not systematically collected and disaggregated to assess progress and to design policies to implement the Convention. 19. The Committee reiterates its previous recommendations that the State party should collect data concerning all persons under the age of 18. It emphasizes that such data is essential to make an analysis of the children’s situation in order to design targeted policies. The Committee recommends that the data collected and generated from the State Statistics Committee be disaggregated, inter alia , by age, sex, geographic location, ethnicity and socio-economic background and is effectively used to inform policy makers, and that efforts be made to increase the capacity of the governmental agencies to analyze the data. The Committee again recommends that the State party seek technical assistance from, inter alia, UNICEF, in this regard. 4