The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (2009) recommended: o o o o o . o . The mainstreaming of the National Plan of Action (NPAC) by providing and clearly identifying specific budget lines for it across all relevant sectoral and regional programs of the national budget; The provision of adequate resources to local government units in all municipalities, cities and provinces to implement NPAC and the Convention on the Rights of the Child in an open, consultative and participatory way; The provision of adequate human and financial resources to the Child Rights Center of the Commission on Human Rights to ensure it can effectively and independently exercise its mandate; The application of a child rights approach in budgeting by implementing a tracking system for allocation and use of resources for children throughout budget, thus providing visibility to investment on children; this may include using the tracking system for impact assessments on how investments in any sector may serve the best interests of the child, ensuring measurement of differential impact of investment on girls and boys; The definition of strategic budgetary lines for disadvantaged or particularly vulnerable children and for those situations that may require affirmative social measures, ensuring that such budgetary lines are protected even in situations of economic crisis, natural disasters or other emergencies; ln the context of decentralization, ensuring transparent and participatory budgeting through public dialogue and participation, especially of children, and for proper accountability by local authorities; Prevention and elimination of corruption in all sectors of society, including by strengthening its policies oriented at transparency and probity; and Continuous allocation of appropriate resources for the health sector. The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child also reviewed the Philippines' performance with respect to the Optional Protocol on lnvolvement of Children in Armed Conflict (CRC-OP-AS), which the country ratified on August 26, 2003; the Committee (2008) recommended: o o The provision of adequate human, financial and technical resources for the full implementation of the Optional Protocol; and The provision of necessary human and financial resources to the Commission on Human Rights and to the Deputy Ombudsman to enable them to actively monitor compliance with the Optional Protocol, to provide facilities where children may be housed, and to ensure that children can easily access these bodies to submit complaints. The United Nations Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (2009) recommended: o 68 The provision of adequate funds to: Establish the Shared Government Information System on Migration (SGISM) as a harmonized database, including disaggregated data; Strengthen collaboration with Philippine Embassies and Consulates for improving data collection; Adopt a harmonized mechanism for gathering statistics on irregular migrants; and o o o