This year we will engage children and consult parents, communities and civil society on the challenges, gaps and opportunities to scale up an integrated response to our commitments. As signatories to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, we are required to develop a national plan of action for children. In this regard, we are reviewing and consulting the 1997 National Plan of Action for Children, the NPAC. Consultations are under way with national departments, provinces, municipalities and various sectors.