CRC/C/HND/CO/3 page 4 14. The Committee recommends that the State party implement effectively the National Opportunities Plan for Children and Adolescents, with the aim of giving effect to the principles and provisions of the Convention, and for this purpose allocate adequate resources both at national and local level. The Committee further recommends that all other specific programmes and plans that may have an impact on children take this National Plan into account and be properly coordinated with it. Coordination 15. The Committee notes the State party’s efforts towards institutional reform of IHNFA aimed at reinforcing it. However, it is concerned that IHNFA still lacks adequate institutional structure to efficiently perform its coordination mandate throughout the country. It notes that its previous concerns over the lack of adequate human and financial resources of the Institute, expressed upon consideration of the State party’s second periodic report, still remain valid. It is further concerned that most of the budget allocated to the Institute is spent on recurrent expenses and that a large number of its staff have not yet been adequately trained. 16. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Complete the institutional reform aimed at strengthening IHNFA; (b) Provide IHNFA with adequate human and financial resources, including the necessary continuity of an adequately trained staff, to be able to properly carry out its mandate, i.e. to develop and coordinate the State policy on children and all the activities aimed at the implementation of the Convention. Independent monitoring 17. The Committee welcomes the work of the National Commissioner for Human Rights (CONADEH). This Commissioner has the mandate, inter alia, to receive and consider complaints about violations of children’s rights. The Committee also welcomes the activities of the municipal human rights commissioners, which should incorporate the functions of “defensores de la niñez”. However, it is concerned that an independent human rights institution focused on children is still lacking and that the municipal commissioners only exist in a limited number of municipalities. 18. The Committee recommends that the State party take the necessary measures to expand the presence of the municipal commissioners to all municipalities. It further recommends that, taking into account the Committee’s general comment No. 2 on national human rights institutions (2002) and the Paris Principles (General Assembly resolution 48/134, annex), the State party establish a national Ombudsman for Children, and provide that person with adequate human and financial resources. The Ombudsman should coordinate his/her activities with those of the municipal commissioners and be explicitly mandated to deal with complaints from children in a child-sensitive and expeditious manner.