THINGS TO CONSIDER: DEVELOPING A COMPREHENSIVE LAW AND/OR POLICY TO EFFECTIVELY PROHIBIT CORPORAL PUNISHMENT  Developing a comprehensive law and/or policy to effectively prohibit corporal punishment in all settings involves promoting an educational and non-punitive approach to discipline as well as informing and providing parents, teachers and caregivers with the relevant tools and skills to implement alternatives to violent discipline. Relevant stakeholders must be engaged in the process and effective monitoring and accountability mechanisms should be in place/set up. 1. What laws or policies already exist that prohibit corporal punishment (stocktaking exercise) or otherwise protect children from violence (such as laws covering education, domestic violence, child protection, criminal law, antitorture laws, etc.)? 2. Which stakeholders are to be engaged during the policy-making process? How will they be consulted? 3. What communication strategies will be used (both pre- and post-adoption of policy or law), when will they be implemented (timeframes), and who will be the target audiences? 4. What are the plans for capacity building programmes: who will roll out the programmes (authority), who will be trained (recipients), timeframes, costs? 5. What arrangements will be made for monitoring and evaluating the effective implementation of the law or policy, making sure to identify challenges and areas for improvement? 6. Which accountability mechanisms already exist in national laws? Are additional mechanisms needed, or can existing mechanisms be delegated responsibility to redress child rights violations? What should be the main characteristics of these mechanisms? 7. What financial, human or technical resouces are needed to implement the policy and/or law? 8. Which partners are available to support the process, and how will they be engaged? TOOL: Positive Discipline and Alternatives to Corporal Punishment of Children 14/15