76^th MEETING OF THE DIRECTING COUNCIL OF THE
INTER-AMERICAN CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE

May 9-11, 2001
Montevideo, Uruguay

THE DIRECTING COUNCIL,

WHEREAS:

The Member States recognize the need to have indicators for monitoring and evaluating the Situation of Children and Adolescents in the countries;

The Plan of Action of the Third Summit of the Americas acknowledges the need to establish appropriate indicators in the countries, on children's health, development and welfare;

RESOLVES:

1. To instruct the Inter-American Children's Institute to develop a methodological proposal for generating comparable indicators that should be based on the structures of statistical information already available in the countries, coordinating with other entities in order to avoid duplicating efforts.
   
2. To request the Office of the Director General to report to the Directing Council, at its next Regular Meeting, on the fulfillment of this mandate.