Speakers at a roundtable yesterday stressed the need for coordination among different government agencies to formulate an effective child policy to protect child rights.

Coordination among government's education policy, health policy and other policies is important to formulate an effective child policy in the country, they said.

They were addressing the roundtable titled "Role of civil society in formulation and implementation of National Child Policy, 2010" in observance of Child Rights Week-2010 at the Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) in the city, says a press release.

Speaking as the chief guest, Meher Afroz Chumki, president of parliamentary standing committee on women and child affairs, emphasised the need for creating mass awareness about different child issues to implement the policy properly.

She said there are 6.3 crore children in the country. Moral education should be included in the child policy to transform this huge number of children into human resource, she added.

DAM Executive Director M Ehsanur Rahman urged the NGOs to play a significant role in implementing the policy.

ActionAid Bangladesh Country Director Farah Kabir, National Girl Child Advocacy Forum's President Badiul Alam Majumder, Mass Literacy Campaign's Vice Chairman Manjur Ahmed, Bangladesh Adivasi Forum's General Secretary Sanjeeb Drong were present at the meeting.