CRC/C/GTM/CO/3-4 sectoral coordination to recognize and realize children’s rights across Government, between different levels of government and between Government and civil society – including in particular children and young people themselves.” National Plan of Action 19. The Committee takes note of the adoption of the National Plan of Action for Children 2004-2015 and welcomes several initiatives based on sectoral plans of action aimed to address violation of children´s rights. However, it regrets the insufficient implementation of these plans, including the lack of adequate evaluation due to institutional weakness and limited allocation of resources. 20. The Committee recommends that the State party take all the necessary measures, including adequate financial resources, to implement the National Plan of Action including the sectoral plans of action at the local, regional and national levels, ensuring that they are in line with all of the Convention provisions and its two Optional Protocols. The Committee further recommends that the implementation of these plans be regularly monitored and evaluated with the participation of children and civil society. 21. The Committee notes that the National Commission on Children and Adolescents, which is in charge of the development and evaluation of public policies for children, undertook an assessment of the public child protection policy in 2009. However, it regrets the lack of information on the follow-up given to this evaluation as well as the insufficient professional and financial resources allocated to the Commission to adequately carry out its functions and duties. 22. The Committee recommends that the allocation of human, technical and financial resources to the National Commission on Children and Adolescents be increased in order to enable it to carry out its functions and duties adequately. The Committee further recommends introducing and promoting children’s rights in State policies covering civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights and evaluating their implementation. Independent monitoring 23. The Committee is concerned at the insufficient resources allocated to the Office of the Ombudsman (Procuraduría de los Derechos Humanos), which impedes it from adequately fulfilling its functions. The Committee is further concerned at reports that the Office might be politically biased, which results in weak audits, that it pays insufficient attention to monitoring and preventive work, and that it does not sufficiently follow up violations detected. 24. The Committee recommends that the State party allocate more resources to the Office for children and youth, which comes under the Office of the Ombudsman (Procuraduría de los Derechos Humanos), provide it with the necessary power to effectively perform its mandated monitoring functions, and take the necessary steps to correct its shortcomings, professionalize its work and ensure its independence in accordance with the Paris principles and the Committee’s general comment no. 2 on the role of independent national human rights institutions in the promotion and protection of the rights of the child. The Committee also recommends that the Procuraduría de los Derechos Humanos increase its accessibility, strengthen the local services provided through municipal defenders (“Defensores Municipales”) and create culturally adapted services in the indigenous communities, or establish community defenders (Defensores Comunitarios) working closely with the Ombudsman. 4