CRC/C/15/Add.259 page 4 role regarding the implementation of children’s rights. The Committee acknowledges PCHR’s activities regarding children’s rights, however is concerned at its limited mandate and resources. 13. The Committee recommends to the State party, with reference to the Committee’s general comment No. 2 (2002) on the role of independent national human rights institutions in the promotion and protection of the rights of the child, that it consider broadening the mandate of PCHR regarding the monitoring of children’s rights and providing PCHR with adequate resources in order to strengthen the investigation of individual complaints filed by children in a child-sensitive manner. Allocation of resources 14. The Committee notes the slight increase in budgetary allocations for children’s social services, the State party’s efforts to implement the 20/20 initiative for budgeting and the priority given to low-income families and combating poverty, for example through the creation of a Poverty Alleviation Fund. The Committee also notes with deep concern that the State party’s debt servicing takes up more than 30 per cent of its national budget and that insufficient attention has been paid to sufficient budgetary allocations for children and to article 4 of the Convention regarding budgetary allocations to the implementation of the economic, social and cultural rights of children to the maximum extent of available resources. 15. The Committee recommends that the State party strengthen its efforts to reduce its level of debt servicing in order to, inter alia, allow an increase of budgetary allocations to the realization of children’s rights and, in particular, the implementation of the economic, social and cultural rights of children. In order to be able to evaluate the impact of expenditures on children, the Committee recommends that the State party establish a systematic assessment of the impact of budgetary allocations on the implementation of children’s rights and identify the yearly budgetary amount and proportion spent on persons under 18 years of age. Data collection 16. The Committee welcomes the various efforts to improve data collection but it remains concerned that in some areas covered by the Convention, including children with disabilities, migrant children, children living in extreme poverty, abused and neglected children, children within the justice system and children belonging to minorities and indigenous children, data are lacking or insufficient. 17. The Committee recommends that the State party strengthen its existing mechanisms for data collection and develop indicators consistent with the Convention and, where necessary, establish additional mechanisms for data collection, in order to ensure that data are collected on all areas of the Convention and that these are disaggregated, inter alia, by age for all persons under 18 years, gender, urban and rural areas and by those groups of children who are in need of special protection. It further encourages the State party to use these indicators and data to formulate policies and programmes for the effective implementation of the Convention.