The Committee recommends that the State party: Collect data disaggregated by, among others, age, sex and geographical location, and monitor regularly the situation of children living in poverty in order to develop adequate policies and programmes to assist them; Strengthen its efforts to provide material assistance and support to economically disadvantaged families and to guarantee the right of children to an adequate standard of living particularly with regard to health, nutrition, education and housing; Ensure that the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy and all other programmes aimed at reducing poverty and improving the standard of living in the country give priority attention to the rights and needs of children; Develop and adopt a comprehensive child protection strategy and expedite the adoption of the National Social Protection Policy to ensure sustained access of disadvantaged children and families to health and other basic services as well as sustainable livelihoods; and Seek technical assistance in this regard from, among others, UNICEF, the World Bank and ILO.
d) Elabore y adopte una estrategia amplia de protección de la infancia y acelere la aprobación de la Política Nacional de protección social para asegurar el acceso permanente de las familias y los niños desfavorecidos a los servicios de salud y de otro tipo y a medios de vida sostenibles; y