• Monitoring Pressure: Help to enforce existing national and regional policy through aggressive monitoring by NGOs and by way of community level educational programs to hold individuals and organizations accountable. This would include examinations of gender discrimination in health care, education and adequate nutrition as well as issues such as violence, sexual violence and abuses of power in community and family structures.

• Make existing policies more effective: Review existing laws related to children. Revise and synthesize current legislation for more cohesive, more enforceable laws, particularly in the areas of domestic child abuse and trafficking.

• Improve birth and death registration: Improve the birth and death registration system in order to better control and to hold those accountable for infanticide, foeticide and discriminatory practices leading to early death. At the very least, this will provide a more accurate picture of the statistical situation.

• Don’t divide further: The issue must be examined in terms of vulnerable groups of both sexes rather than dividing communities, countries and strategies further by gender. Programming at micro-levels should include boys and girls.

• Sensitize men and boys: Patriarchy is of course a hugely powerful force oppressing the Girl Child and women in general. We should encourage gender sensitization programmes for all, especially men and boys.

• Continue to work on the basics: Girl Child discrimination is one of the symptoms of poverty and underdevelopment. As a result, access to health care, proper nutrition, a complete education and a sustainable income must continue to be worked toward or any kind of gender inequality will be impossible. (Girl Child malnutrition can’t be "solved" without first looking at general malnutrition.) The issue of Girl Child should be looked at not in isolation but as part of the larger development picture.

• Look at moral causes of discrimination: Examine morality structures in order to understand why communities differ in their treatment of the Girl Child. SAP to undertake "vulnerability mapping" of South Asia pointing out current and potential risk zones.

• Involve the Girl Child: Community education programmes to involve and encourage the participation of Girl Children themselves.

• Involve media: Continue with lobbying media in order to promote the issue further in public arenas.

• Educational options: Implement and encourage non-formal education opportunities to address the reality of child labour and village life.

• Educational Incentives: Implement incentives for mother for the continued attendance of their children in schools.

• Expand role of the school: Introduce health care facilities and nutritional programmes within schools.

• Ameliorate work-place conditions: Improve the conditions within children’s work environments. Lobby to include nutritional programmes and compulsory non-formal schooling for all those under 16.

• Protect girls involved in trafficking: Women and girls involved in trafficking should have access to free legal assistance, diplomatic protection and representation, freedom from persecution by those in positions of authority. Voluntary confidential HIV testing must be available.

• Set up a SAARC regional trafficking body: A regional body should be set up by SAARC in order to protect and represent the interests of trafficked women and girls based on international human rights standards.

• More female role models: Encourage and support more female role models as teachers, community representatives and responsible leaders. Introduce these successful women and girls and have them promote and educate based on their own experiences.

• Assemble existing GC research: Establish a regional Girl Child "clearinghouse" where all recent research and reports on the situation of the Girl Child and Girl Child rights would be gathered. The aim would be to prevent repetition and to formulate strategies and programmes with all the available information in hand. SAP-I could coordinate this effort.