CRC/C/MDA/CO/3 page 2 (d) The Strategy and National Action Plan of Education for All for the period 2004-2008. 5. The Committee also notes with appreciation that since consideration of its second report in 2002, the State party has ratified or acceded to, inter alia: (a) The two Optional Protocols to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, on 23 January 2008 and 20 September 2006, respectively; (b) The Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, on 24 July 2006; (c) the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, on 28 February 2006; (d) The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, on 16 September 2005. C. Factors and difficulties impeding the implementation of the Convention 6. The Committee notes that the State party has faced serious economic and social challenges during the past few years posed by the transition to a market economy, including increased unemployment, poverty and corruption, which have had an especially severe impact on children belonging to the most vulnerable segments of society. D. Main areas of concern and recommendations 1. General measures of implementation (arts. 4, 42 and 44, paragraph 6, of the Convention) 7. The Committee notes that several concerns and recommendations made upon the consideration of the State party’s initial report (CRC/C/28/Add.19) have been addressed, including through the implementation of a number of projects in relation to the Committee’s recommendations on preventing institutionalization, improving social assistance for vulnerable families with children at risk, and reintegrating children into families and communities. It nevertheless regrets that some of its concerns and recommendations, including those relating to issues such as the allocation of resources, child labour and juvenile justice, have not been adequately addressed or implemented. 8. The Committee urges the State party to take all necessary measures to address those recommendations from the concluding observations of the initial report that have not yet been implemented or sufficiently implemented. Legislation 9. While the Committee notes the efforts undertaken by the State party to harmonize legislation in order to ensure greater consistency with the Convention, in particular the amendments to the provisions of the Family Code and the Civil Code, it remains concerned at the lack of resources to implement these laws effectively. 10. The Committee recommends that the State party continue harmonizing its legislation with the principles and provisions of the Convention and allocate adequate human and financial resources to support the implementation of the relevant legislation.