CRC/C/NIC/CO/4 appropriate human, technical and financial resources for the full implementation of the Children and Adolescents Code and all related laws protecting and promoting the rights of children. Coordination 10. The Committee regrets that the National Council for the Comprehensive Care and Protection of Children and Adolescents (CONAPINA), established by the Children and Adolescents Code at the presidential level, with civil society participation, which was previously in charge of coordinating child policies, has lost its authority by virtue of Law 290 (2008) and is now under the Ministry of Family, Adolescence and Childhood (MIFAN), thereby affecting overall coordination, including with civil society. It is further concerned that a new National Social Welfare System (Sistema Nacional de Bienestar Social) has taken over the overall coordination of social policy, including that related to children, and consequently, the promotion and protection of children’s rights in general, not only those at risk, have lost specificity and transparency. 11. The Committee recommends that the State party consider strengthening the leadership and coordinating functions of CONAPINA as set out in the Children and Adolescents Code, and, in that respect, streamline the roles and activities of both MIFAN and the National Social Welfare System to ensure a comprehensive and well articulated system of promotion and protection of children’s rights. 12. The Committee notes with satisfaction that more than 100 of the 153 municipalities have set up Municipal Commissions on Children and Adolescents (Comisiones Municipales de la Niñez y la Adolescencia), with the participation of civil society and children, in order to provide leadership and coordination for programmes related to children’s rights at the local level. However, it remains concerned that their actual functioning is restricted by the lack of clarity in the overall system and the inadequacy of resources. 13. The Committee urges the State party to ensure that a Municipal Commission on Children and Adolescents is established in all municipalities and that they are provided with the necessary human, technical and financial resources to ensure clear leadership and coordination of programmes for children at the local level. National Plan of Action 14. The Committee notes that the State party has recently launched a National Plan for Human Development, but it is concerned that there is no information as to whether and how child rights goals and objectives are included therein, in consonance with the Children and Adolescents Code and the approved National Plan of Action for Children and Adolescents (2002-2011). The Committee also notes with concern that the Amor Programme (Programa Amor) and the Amor Early Childhood Education Strategy (Estrategia Educativa Amor para los más Chiquitos), created in parallel by the state party and coordinated by MIFAN, seem to have replaced the National Plan of Action, despite their limited focus on special protection. The Committee is concerned that these developments are a regression in terms of the integral promotion and protection of child rights, as established in the Children and Adolescents Code. 15. The Committee strongly recommends that the State party ensure that the National Plan of Action for Children and Adolescents (2002-2011) forms, in an explicit and clearly identifiable way, part of its overall planning efforts, including the National Plan for Human Development. The Committee recommends that the current ongoing evaluation of the National Plan of Action for Children and Adolescents is used to elaborate a new comprehensive plan of action for children that is fully integrated into the national development planning framework. It further recommends that this be 3