I can see this is a reference number for a Honduran legal document (PCM-41-2023), but it's not a law title in Spanish that needs translation. This appears to be a document code or citation number. If you have the actual Spanish title of the law you'd like translated, please provide that and I'll be happy to translate it into English.

To establish the State Secretariat of the Offices of Childhood, Adolescence and Family (SENAF), effective January 1, 2024, which shall be responsible for the leadership, formulation, coordination, management, monitoring and evaluation of public policy and regulations for the comprehensive guarantee and protection of the rights of children, adolescents and families, as well as specialized programs and services in this matter. Likewise, the Directorate of Childhood, Adolescence and Family (DINAF) is abolished, effective as of the aforementioned date of creation of the State Secretariat of the Offices of Childhood, Adolescence and Family (SENAF).

COMPETENCIES AND ATTRIBUTIONS. The competencies and attributions of the State Secretariat of the Offices of Childhood, Adolescence and Family (SENAF) shall be:

• 1)

  To lead and promote the implementation of the Comprehensive System for the Guarantee of Rights of Children and Adolescents in Honduras (SIGADENAH), whose objective is to guarantee, respect, protect and promote the exercise and full, effective and permanent enjoyment of the rights of all children and adolescents;

• 2)

  To lead and coordinate the functioning of the Subsystem of Special Protection against violations of the rights of children and adolescents, whose objective is the special protection and restoration of the rights of girls, boys and adolescents in a situation or at risk of vulnerability due to exploitation, abuse, neglect, harmful practices, violence, involvement in the justice system or other situations that generate violations of their rights (hereinafter, "situation of violation");

• 3)

  To coordinate a mechanism for the formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the National Policy on Childhood and Adolescence and its action plan, the National Strategy and programs for early childhood and prevention of violence against children in Honduras, as well as other public policies and strategies in favor of childhood and adolescence, considering specific needs by age group and priority attention groups;

• 4)

  To propose, design and ensure the implementation of programs to strengthen family environments aimed at providing comprehensive competencies for the care of children and adolescents;

• 5)

  To promote shared responsibility and social participation in the promotion, defense and protection of the rights of childhood, adolescence and family;

• 6)

  To develop programs of systematic and continuous training, dissemination and awareness regarding the rights of children directed at public officials, journalists, civil society organizations and children and other sectors, with the aim of strengthening in a cross-cutting manner the capacities in the matter of children's rights at all levels and ensure the inclusion of the rights-based approach, specialized care and determination of the best interests of the child in public administration in decisions within its competence;

• 7)

  To monitor and ensure the implementation by the State of Honduras of the observations of international mechanisms related to children;

• 8)

  To monitor the budget and public investment allocated to childhood, adolescence and family in Honduras, issuing recommendations so that this spending is effective and efficient;

• 9)

  To create and promote the functioning of the National Observatory on the Rights of Girls, Boys, Adolescents and the Family; with the aim of conducting constant monitoring and dissemination of periodic information on the situation of the rights of childhood, adolescence and family;

• 10)

  To collaborate and coordinate with other institutions involved in this matter, the actions related to the protection, monitoring and accompaniment of unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and family units to ensure effective community reintegration;

• 11)

  To handle and coordinate in the administrative venue the process of restoring the rights of children and adolescents in a situation of violation through binding protective measures;

• 12)

  To establish, monitor and evaluate the quality standards of operation of the institutions that provide services aimed at the care and protection of children, adolescents and families; as well as to transfer financial resources to the organisms responsible for the direct execution of these alternative care programs and other services necessary for the protection of children;

• 13)

  To supervise, monitor and certify Residential Alternative Care Institutions (IRCAS) and other forms of alternative care, as well as institutions where children and adolescents are under their care, for which a special regulation shall be issued;

• 14)

  To render an opinion on the protection standards of children's rights of civil associations whose purpose is activities related to childhood, adolescence and family, prior to the authorization of applications for legal status of the same. 15. To handle in the administrative venue the procedures related to the declaration of abandonment of girls, boys and adolescents; 16. To oversee the legal process of adoptions of girls, boys and adolescents who have been declared abandoned and to exercise the central authority provided for in The Hague Conference on Private International Law; 17. To exercise Legal Representation in the absence of mothers and fathers or other legal representatives of children, or by qualified threat to the violation of their rights; 18. Any other matter that legally corresponds to it, or that is delegated to it by the Presidency of the Republic.

The State Secretariat of the Offices of Childhood, Adolescence and Family (SENAF) shall have a Undersecretary of State. The organic and functional structure of the institution, including its Directorates, shall be established by means of a Regulation that must be issued within a period not exceeding ninety (90) days from the date of entry into force of its creation, by Ministerial Agreement of the State Secretariat of the Offices of Childhood, Adolescence and Family (SENAF), in coordination with the State Secretariat of the Office of Finance (SEFIN).

For the development of its attributions, the State Secretariat of the Offices of Childhood, Adolescence and Family (SENAF) must have specialized technical personnel in the matter, duly accredited.

The assets assigned to the Directorate of Childhood, Adolescence and Family (DINAF) shall be transferred to the State Secretariat of the Offices of Childhood, Adolescence and Family (SENAF), effective January 1, 2024, following the corresponding procedure. TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

LIQUIDATION COMMISSION. Authorization and instruction are granted to the future head of the State Secretariat of the Offices of Childhood, Adolescence and Family (SENAF), to proceed as Liquidation Commission of the Directorate of Childhood, Adolescence and Family (DINAF), with full powers in matters relating to the liquidation of personnel, payment of liabilities and debts, disposition of goods and assets; with said Commission expressly authorized to assume all the competencies and attributions that corresponded to the Directorate of Childhood, Adolescence and Family (DINAF), exclusively for its liquidation, for which purpose it may request the assistance of the State Secretariat of the Office of Finance (SEFIN), of the National Administration of Civil Service (ANSEC), of the State Secretariat of the Offices of Labor and Social Security, as well as of the Administrative Managerships of institutions involved in this matter and other State institutions if necessary, with these being obligated to provide their immediate cooperation. Upon conclusion of the liquidation, a report shall be presented to the Presidency of the Republic regarding the operations carried out and findings encountered.

CONTINUITY OF UNITS. In order to guarantee a gradual and progressive transition effective January 1, 2024, as well as the completion of pending administrative, technical and financial operations, the continuity is authorized of the units of the Directorate of Childhood, Adolescence and Family (DINAF) that are necessary, granting the head of the State Secretariat of the Offices of Childhood, Adolescence and Family (SENAF) the powers to continue with the representation and administration of the Directorate of Childhood, Adolescence and Family (DINAF), exclusively for the purpose of its liquidation, until the corresponding transfers and operations are concluded.

The National Institute for the Care of Juvenile Offenders (INAMI) is assigned as a deconcentrated body of the Public Administration to the State Secretariat of the Offices of Childhood, Adolescence and Family (SENAF), which shall integrate and preside over its Board of Directors as the governing body.

A STATE OF EMERGENCY is declared in the Subsystem of Special Protection of the rights of children and adolescents for the year two thousand twenty-three (2023), with the aim of supervising and regularizing the operation of institutions that provide services aimed at the protection of children, adolescents and families, as well as guaranteeing the continuity and efficient provision of the same during the period of institutional transition; authorizing the Directorate of Childhood, Adolescence and Family (DINAF) to carry out the direct contracting of all goods and services that are necessary for such purpose, such as works, design, consulting, supplies, construction, installation and supervision, among others. Likewise, the protective measures that are necessary must be reviewed and issued to safeguard the rights and integrity of girls, boys, adolescents and families, particularly those who are institutionalized.

The hiring that is carried out under this Decree must be developed following the provisions established in the State Contracting Law and its Regulation, and in accordance with national legislation, seeking to obtain the most advantageous and quality conditions for the Public Administration, as well as the greatest transparency and oversight in the process.

Authorization and instruction are granted to the State Secretariat of the Office of Finance (SEFIN) to carry out the necessary budgetary and financial operations to ensure the functioning of the State Secretariat of the Offices of Childhood, Adolescence and Family (SENAF), guarantee that the Directorate of Childhood, Adolescence and Family (DINAF) can meet the Declaration of State of Emergency; as well as to comply with everything established in this Decree.

The State Secretariat of the Offices of Childhood, Adolescence and Family (SENAF) shall assume the financial obligations that may be generated in administrative or judicial instances of the acts carried out that are generated after the restructuring process.

The provisions of equal or lesser rank that oppose this Decree are hereby repealed. When the Law, Executive Decrees, Regulations, current norms, contracts for the provision of services, Agreements, Conventions or others, mention or refer to the Directorate of Childhood, Adolescence and Family (DINAF), it shall be understood as referring to the Secretariat of Childhood, Adolescence and Family (SENAF).

This Decree shall be executed immediately and shall be published in the Official Gazette "La Gaceta." Given at the Presidential House, in the city of Tegucigalpa, municipality of the Central District, on the eighth (08) day of the month of September of the year two thousand twenty-three.