The Commission has appointed an Executive Children’s Rights Focal Point to monitor children’s rights.
No specific budget for child rights, however, activities relating to children’s rights are covered by the general budget of the CDHC.
The Commission is the first NHRI to get affiliate status before the Committee. The Commission participated in the 40th Ordinary Session of the Committee. The Commission also responds to all requests for information from the Committee and is ready to deepen cooperation with the Committee.
The Commission in Cameroon actively collaborates with all ministerial departments responsible for children’s rights. It engages them in its activities and participates in their initiatives. Notably, the Commission collaborates with the Ministry of Justice and the entire judiciary and the police, to which it systematically refers cases brought before it or which it takes up, which involve criminal offences (Article 7 of the 2019 law). The Commission is also regularly requested by the Ministry for the Promotion of Women and the Family, and by the Ministry of Justice to contribute to the preparation of periodic reports of the State of Cameroon under treaties, including treaties relating to the rights of the child.
- The Commission has been a member of NANHRI since its inception and served as Vice-Chair from 2012 to 2014 and President from 2015 to 2017. It is also a member of the NANHRI’s Working Group on Sustainable Development.
The involvement of children in the work of the Commission is mainly through the campaign launched on 27 January 2023 on the creation of Human Rights Clubs in secondary schools and public and private universities across the ten regions of the country.
- Cooperates with the UNICEF and UNESCO
- Engages on issues of human rights education in primary and secondary education
- In the process of concluding a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Cameroon Child Rights Civil Society Organisation Network, a consortium of CSOs specializing in child protection.
The Commission promotes the Charter in its various undertakings. The Commission integrates the provisions of the Charter in its declarations and statements which are widely shared among governmental and non-governmental actors. The Commission also integrates the various elements of the Aspirations under Agenda 2040 in its promotional mandates. For instance, in March 2022, the CDHC referred to the President of the Republic Cameroon the issue of lack of birth certificates, which constitutes a violation of children’s rights to identity, education and nationality (Aspiration 3 of the 2040 Agenda), which is a problem that affected more than 4 million children in the country. Following this referral, mass birth certificate campaigns were ordered and announced by the competent authorities.
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