A/HRC/13/65 page 6 Government to discharge its various responsibilities. The Government needed more troops to end the insurgency, as well as the support of the international community both financially and in terms of technical support. 7. The Minister for Gender, Women and Family Affairs and the Minister for Finance echoed the views of the President. They emphasized that the Government was awaiting fulfilment of the pledges made by the international community at the International Conference on Somalia held in Brussels in April 2009 to fund Government activities. 8. The Government hopes that the tide would turn soon in the fight against anti-Government elements, particularly Al-Shabaab. It is in the process of adding more troops to its security forces and training them properly; some troops have already been trained in neighbouring countries. The Government’s efforts are hampered by a lack of resources, however, and sometimes the troops cannot even be paid their salaries or provided with sufficient food allowance. Nevertheless, the Government hopes to take on the enemy in the near future. 9. The Government has plans for improving the education and health system in the country; for example, the Government hopes to open more educational institutions, including in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs). Such institutions would help prevent children in the camps joining Al-Shabaab. Given many people’s financial difficulties and the need to survive in a wartorn country, children’s primary reason for joining Al-Shabaab is to feed themselves and help their families. Al-Shabaab is taking advantage of this situation and recruiting children from poorer families by offering them money. The Government also wants to create jobs in IDP camps so families can support their children rather than send them to join opposition forces. It is also seeking to return IDPs. 10. The Government believes that Al-Shabaab is fast losing the people’s trust, especially since the suicide bombing at Shamo Hotel in December 2009, during which innocent people and children were killed. People saw how Al-Shabaab was destroying mosques, attacking symbols of indigenous Sufi culture and killing people in the name of jihad. Al-Shabaab is planting fear into the minds of the people in areas under their control and receiving support from Al-Qaida and other unpopular foreign criminal elements. The Government is thinking of creating human rights courts that would help people follow up their cases against the perpetrators of human rights violations. The Government’s removal of the heads of the security forces and police demonstrated the determination of Government to clean up the administration. The ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child is under way. B. Meetings with United Nations officials and others 11. There is a general consensus among United Nations officials that the survival of the Transitional Federal Government for one year in a very challenging security situation is in itself a significant achievement. The Government has undertaken a number of initiatives which showed that it has started to take up the functions of State seriously. The initiatives include: relocation of the new Government to Mogadishu; formulation of an annual budget for Somalia for the first time in years; collection of revenue internally; the launching of a radio station, etc.