A/HRC/9/21 page 10 protect children’s rights and prevent violations. The Special Rapporteur takes a programmatic view of country visits: violations are an indicator of problematic situations that all partners in a given country or region must address. 33. The Special Rapporteur wishes to explore the feasibility of conducting regional or transnational missions, though the different kinds of situations currently covered by her mandate makes an analysis of the regional and transnational dimensions essential for a more comprehensive view (regional or transnational) of the situation with regard to the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. 34. With respect to communications sent to Governments, including requests for information in the form of questionnaires, the Special Rapporteur wishes to develop this part of her mandate in order to obtain a more realistic and practical view of the problems related to the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. In order to do so it will be necessary, as emphasized above, to better explain the terms and scope of her mandate to the organizations concerned, in particular grass-roots organizations and associations, and to victims or potential victims. To that end the Special Rapporteur will in the first instance review and update the questionnaire in order to make it more accessible to victims, civil society associations and grass-roots organizations. 35. As part of her work, the Special Rapporteur plans to pay particular attention to the follow-up to her various activities, in particular country visits and communications. She will look especially closely at the possibility of follow-up missions to countries and will publish follow-up reports to country missions, based on information gathered from the Governments concerned and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations concerning the implementation of recommendations. She will also step up her interaction with local partners so as to keep abreast of the implementation of her and her predecessors’ recommendations. 36. The Special Rapporteur is aware of the important role played by technical and financial partners (international bilateral/multilateral cooperation; intergovernmental organizations), the media, international and regional police/customs organizations, international Internet companies and the tourism sector, and will develop close ties of cooperation with these partners in order to achieve her objectives. IV. REFLECTIONS ON THE MANDATE 37. Given the short time that has elapsed since the Special Rapporteur’s appointment, the present report provides only an outline of the direction that her work will take during her mandate. Having read the reports of her predecessors and held discussions with the United Nations specialized agencies, funds and programmes (UNICEF, ILO), major NGOs, other mandate holders, treaty bodies (in particular the Committee on the Rights of the Child), the independent expert to direct an in-depth study of the question of violence against children and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, the Special Rapporteur emphasizes the need to develop an integrated system for child protection, based on a global, intersectoral and multisectoral approach that takes account of the best interest of the child and child protection, and encompasses (a) prevention; (b) medical, psychological, social and legal support; and (c) promotion of the rights of the child.