Ensure a child rights-based and gender sensitive approach to all relevant policies and legislation;

Ensure that all children are given the full enjoyment of their rights – leaving no one behind, by particularly considering the situation and needs of children at risk, including migrant children and children in minority communities in all relevant policies, legislation and programs;

Harmonize the definition of a child with international standards so a child is defined as all persons under 18 years old;

The terms “Child pornography”, “Child prostitution” should be replaced by appropriate terms;

Each case of sexual exploitation of a child must be treated as sexual exploitation or human trafficking of children;

Incriminate conscious attendance of pornographic performances with participation of children by the relevant laws;

In relation to acts pertaining to child exploitation in prostitution, the relevant laws should prescribe as aggravating circumstance the fact that the perpetrator, intentionally or negligently, endangered the life of the child or that the crime involved severe violence or caused serious harm to the child;

Consider stricter penal policy on criminal acts related to Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC);

Consider changes in law on the age for sexual consent and review the protective mechanisms when it comes to sexual exploitation of children above the age of sexual consent;

Continue with the implementation of child friendly justice in practice as well as a child-friendly approach;

Include child participation in developing and implementing policies and programs,

Involve survivors in developing and implementing policies and programs;

Involve at-risk communities, including minorities, in developing and implementing policies and programs; and

Address gender inequalities between boys and girls and include the topic of CSEC and sexual exploitation of children online (SECO) in school curriculums and provide earmarked funding and appropriate training to ensure efficient implementation.

Promote code of conduct against CSEC among travel and tourism sector;

Implement capacity building and preventive activities on combating CSEC in travel and tourism sector;

Develop transparent procedures to identify and report SECO cases within the IT sector

Ensure that the best interest of the child is a primary consideration in ePrivacy and eCommerce policies and legislation; and

Involve representatives of travel and tourism in national referral mechanisms and implementation of existing standard operating procedures (SOP).

Allocate earmarked funding for combating CSEC and particularly SECO;

Continue with the trainings for law enforcement and judiciary representatives;

Initiate signing of Memorandums of cooperation among countries in the Region on CSEC and particularly SECO;

Overcome legal and administrative obstacles in order to use available platforms for CSEC and particularly SECO investigations (like Better Internet for Kids (BIK);

Strengthen human resources of law enforcement, judiciary and service providers to prevent burnout of staff working on CSEC and particularly SECO cases;

Encourage exchange among professionals in different countries in the Region and beyond; and

Organize joint regular meetings and training for law enforcement and prosecution representatives on national and regional level.

Review public funding mechanisms to the CSO sector, especially to CSOs providing direct assistance to victims which falls within states responsibility;

Raise capacities of CSOs on CSEC and particularly SECO;

Develop and support services and reintegration programs for victims of CSEC and particularly SECO;

Make services available to all children, particularly those in rural and economically and socially challenging environments or otherwise belonging to most marginalised or vulnerable communities;

Include participation of children in developing services and preventative measures;

Develop preventive programs on CSEC and particularly SECO for parents;

Adjust preventive activities to the language and IT tools children are mostly using; and

Build capacities and encourage the media to report on cases of CSEC and particularly SECO in line with code of conduct.