CRC/C/VNM/CO/3-4 juvenile justice, in particular as regards legislation and expedition of the law reform process. It also recommends that the State party strengthen the coordination and coherence of legislation to support the implementation of the Convention. The effective implementation of its Strategy on the Development of the Legal System should be undertaken and sufficient resources allocated for the effective enforcement of child-related legislation, in particular the 2004 Law on the Protection, Care and Education of Children and its envisaged amendment in 2013, as well as the decrees to implement that Law. Coordination 11. While the Committee notes that the coordination of children’s issues was transferred to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs in 2007, the Committee is concerned that the devolution of powers from national to provincial, district and communal levels of government has contributed to an inconsistent implementation of the Convention, particularly at the local level, in the light of the dissolution of all local committees of the previous coordinating body. In this context, the Committee remains concerned about the adequacy of the coordination mechanism at the communal level, and about the lack of sufficient human resources responsible for children’s issues at that level. 12. The Committee recommends that the State party develop effective mechanisms to ensure a consistent application of the Convention in all provinces by strengthening coordination among the national, provincial, district and communal levels. In doing so, the State party is urged to ensure that the Department for Child Protection and Care within the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs is strengthened and provided with the necessary human, technical and financial resources to implement child-rights policies that are comprehensive, coherent and consistent at the national, provincial, district and communal levels. National plan of action 13. While noting the National Programme of Action for Vietnamese Children for the period of 2011-2020, which is soon to be adopted, the Committee is concerned about the absence of proper coherence and coordination between the different existing national policies and programmes affecting children, leading to a weakening of the impact of some policies and overlapping mandates in some sectors. 14. The Committee recommends that the State party adopt the National Programme of Action for Vietnamese Children without any delay and allocate sufficient funds for its implementation. The Committee also urges the State party to strengthen the coherence and coordination of plans, programmes and policies to support the implementation of the Convention in totality. In doing so, the State party is encouraged to continue to mainstream child rights within all policies and national programmes, and to allocate sufficient human, technical and financial resources for effective implementation. The Committee recommends that the State party continue to monitor and evaluate these policies and programmes to track progress and results, with a view to further refining child-related policies, plans and programmes. Independent monitoring 15. The Committee strongly reiterates its previous concern (CRC/C/15/Add.200, para. 12) about the lack of an independent monitoring body for the promotion and protection of children’s rights as outlined in the Committee’s general comment No. 2 (2002) on the role of independent human rights institutions. 3