The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has also highlighted the need to mainstream child rights in the new aid modalities. The Committee has stated that:

• It takes note of and encourages efforts underway to reduce poverty in the most heavily indebted countries through PRSPs. As the central, country-led strategy for achieving the MDGs, PRSPs must include a strong focus on children's rights.
  


• Governments, donors and civil society should ensure that children are given a prominent priority in the development of PRSPs and sector-wide approaches to development (SWAps).
  


• Both PRSPs and SWAPs should reflect children’s rights principles, with a holistic, child-centred approach recognising children as holders of rights and the incorporation of development goals and objectives which are relevant to children.