A/67/230 institutional developments, and of positive experiences, current gaps and priority areas of concern. 54. The analysis conducted so far reveals an evolving picture, a picture where violence against children is gaining visibility on the national agenda, with increasing legislative action, policy interventions and information campaigns to safeguard children’s freedom from violence, and with some promising initiatives to capture the prevalence of this phenomenon. 55. However, progress remains uneven, with insufficient efforts to develop a cohesive and well-resourced national strategy on violence against children; uncoordinated policy interventions; dispersed and ill-enforced legislation; insufficient investment in family support, in capacity-building for professionals, and in safe and child-sensitive mechanisms to address incidents of violence; and overall, with scarce data and research to break the invisibility of this phenomenon and promote evidence-based decision-making. 56. Although the findings of the survey will be captured more fully in an analytical report to be issued later in 2012, the most significant highlights are presented below, with a special emphasis on the priority areas identified by the Special Representative’s mandate. A. National integrated strategy 57. In all regions, important efforts are being made to develop national agendas to prevent and eliminate violence against children. In their majority, Governments’ responses indicate that they have a policy framework in place, be it a broad action plan on children or on child protection, or multiple strategies to address particular manifestations of violence or specific settings where incidents occur. 58. At the same time, less than 20 per cent of Governments indicate in their replies that they have a comprehensive agenda for preventing and responding to all forms of violence against children. Several Governments acknowledge that existing frameworks are fragmented or at various stages of development and that only in very few cases have sectoral policies been put in place to address violence in all settings. As a result, there remain significant gaps in the effective protection of children. 59. Coordination remains a challenge in many countries, with only two thirds of respondents acknowledging that a lead coordinating governmental institution is in place to oversee action relating to violence against children. In a number of cases, multiple coordinating bodies have been established, but the collaboration between them is uneven and not always effective. Overall, enhanced efforts are still required to secure an institutionalized process of coordination across central departments, and between national and decentralized authorities. This concern is also highlighted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child in its concluding observations. 60. Two other areas call for further attention. First, monitoring mechanisms to assess progress are still lacking in the vast majority of countries, and evaluation of implementation efforts remains the exception. Second, although there has been some allocation of, at times very limited, national resources for children, very few Governments set aside specific funding for violence-related interventions, and most of them acknowledge an insufficient availability of human and financial resources to support implementation efforts in this area. 16 12-45164