government ministries and monitoring and evaluating the policy implementation (paras. 25~27). In effect, however, CPCC, after having met for the first time in December 2004 and held the last annual session in November 2007, is practically inactive now. At present, CPCC is simply written in the Child Welfare Act, with no presence in reality. Consequently, the coordination on child policy in relation to implementation of CRC is being conducted separately, when necessary, with each of the relevant government ministries or departments. 2) Questions 8. Why is CPCC not functioning now? How is the intergovernmental process being made to monitor the implementation of CRC and coordinate the relevant policies? Children's Rights Monitoring Center 1) Current situation 9. The Children's Rights Monitoring Center is part of the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, a state-run research institute, but its monitoring of the CRC implementation is conducted as a program commissioned by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. The Children's Rights Ombudspersons (consisting of adults and children) appointed for the monitoring purpose had been operation until December 2008 but stopped functioning for the following one year and a half until new Ombudspersons were appointed in June 2010. In this light, it does not seem that the Children's Rights Monitoring Center is properly serving as a standing monitoring body within the Government. The Government has not undertaken sufficient measures to devise national legislation and ensure the budget for public monitoring. 2) Questions 10. What is the reason that the Children's Rights Monitoring Center is not established as a proper permanent body for monitoring of CRC implementation? What measures is the Government planning to take to ensure substantial performance by a public agency in this regard? - 3 -