A/HRC/19/64 strategies on how we can work together more closely to more fully realize the rights of all children in this region: a) South-South Cooperation for Child Rights i. Explore avenues to share, and otherwise make accessible to other countries in the Asia Pacific region, details of individual country experiences - both good practices and lessons learned - to advance children‘s rights; ii. Support the establishment of a central database for sharing knowledge on regional efforts to advance child rights, that will make country experiences more accessible; iii. Support the development of a regional strategy for South-South cooperation programmes for child rights. b) Child Protection and Child Welfare i. Explore the possibility of establishing a regional forum on inter-country exchange on inter-sectoral delivery of child protection services across technical disciplines, such as among social welfare, law enforcement, justice, health and education; ii. Develop a regional dialogue on approaches to child welfare and child protection services which focuses on prevention and encourages the mobilisation of local resources and cultural assets; iii. Enhance inter-country exchange and the sharing of good practices in the development of a social work force and their critical role in multi-sectoral approaches to preventing and responding to child protection concerns within a systems-based approach; c) Achieving the MDGs with Equity i. Engage in collaboration on how to improve the collection and use of data and evidence that will increase understanding of disparities and their underlying causes; ii. Formally assess, present and promote successful country experiences, and examine successful experiences elsewhere in reducing disparities to assess the feasibility of adapting and replicating them; iii. Encourage regional-level research studies to examine and review in detail relevant data and literature in support of initiatives designed to reduce disparities; iv. Explore the possibility of establishing a regional repository of knowledge, expertise and data on equity issues. d) Children and Disaster Risk Reduction i. Pursue concerted strategies, at national and regional levels, to encourage closer coordination among the range of governance, development and risk management institutions in Asia and the Pacific, with the aim of promoting more regular, systematic and results-oriented exchanges of knowledge, skills, resources, technology and information on disaster risk reduction, including child-centred DRR. ii. Mainstream community-based and child-centred DRR into regional and sub-regional development approaches, including through greater South-South exchanges on childsensitive risk assessments, so that risk-informed programme planning is factored into project design, implementation and evaluation as much as possible. iii. Increase exchanges among countries and sub-regions in Asia and the Pacific to ensure that practical measures for child-friendly disaster risk reduction are integrated into community-based DRR efforts - recognizing that risks first and foremost are local 63