CALL TO ACTION
Immediate and comprehensive policy interventions are required to meet the scale and urgency of violence against children.
• Establish and formalize mechanisms for safe and inclusive child participation in decision-making.
• Adopt and implement policies and legislation that protect children, in all their diversity, from violence, abuse, exploitation, neglect, and harmful practices in all contexts.
• Provide and strengthen a continuum of child protection prevention, early intervention, and response services; and enhance data systems and capacity. • Increase funding for and transparency in budgets (including Official Development Assistance) to End Violence Against Children.