State of the young child in India / / Mobile Creches.

• VerfasserIn: Mobile Creches (Organization : Mumbai, India),
• Author: Creches, Mobile
• Place / Publishing House: London ;, New York, New York : : Routledge,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (333 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

This Report is one of the first comprehensive studies on young children in India. It focuses on children under 6 years of age and presents key aspects of their well-being and development. With the highest number of neonatal, infant and under-5 deaths in the world, there is an urgent need to address...

Table of Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of boxes
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms
• Executive summary
• 1 The young child in India
• 1.1 Focus on the young child is long overdue
• 1.2 Policy and legal framework have not delivered consistent results
• 1.3 Sustainable development goals pose challenges but also opportunities for India
• 1.4 State is the primary duty bearer to ensure adequate care
• 1.5 A renewed policy focus on the young child is critical
• 2 Advancing physical well-being
• 2.1 Young child mortality
• 2.2 Sex selection and gender discrimination have major implications for the young child
• 2.3 Ill health among young children
• 2.4 Several factors determine child nutrition
• 2.5 Safe water deficit, open defecation and poor hygiene undermine child health
• 2.6 Key issues
• 2.7 Recommendations and action points
• 3 Promoting early childhood learning
• 3.1 Early learning matters
• 3.2 Early childhood education services are crucial for cognitive development
• 3.3 Innovations in ECCE have been notable, many with relevance for policy
• 3.4 Key issues
• 3.5 Recommendations and action points
• 4 Prioritising the disadvantaged child
• 4.1 Children face extreme vulnerability in many ways
• 4.2 Children born in poverty confront multiple deprivations growing up
• 4.3 Socially marginalised communities face specific challenges
• 4.4 Inadequate parental care impedes child development
• 4.5 Key issues
• 4.6 Recommendations and action points
• 5 Childcare and the childcare worker
• 5.1 Nurture and care during early childhood has been under-rated
• 5.2 Home-based childcare is crucial but increasingly challenging
• 5.3 Provision of childcare services is grossly inadequate
• 5.4 Good practices can provide policy pointers and lessons
• 5.5 Key issues.
• 5.6 Recommendations and action points
• 6 Fiscal allocations and expenditure for child development
• 6.1 The fiscal experience highlights gaps in public spending
• 6.2 Trends indicate continuing under-allocation
• 6.3 Sub-national trends show variations in management capability and spending
• 6.4 International comparisons show India's potential untapped
• 6.5 Key issues
• 6.6 Recommendations and action points
• 7 The way forward
• 7.1 Key issues must be addressed
• 7.2 Towards a wholesome childhood for all: major recommendations
• Annexures
• Annexure 1: Services provided under the ICDS
• Annexure 2: Technical note
• Annexure 3: Sustainable development goals
• Annexure 4: Extracts from draft national education policy
• Annexure 5: List of laws, policies and programmes mentioned in the Report
• Annexure 6: Statistical tables
• Annexure 7: Technical background paper contributions
• Glossary of terms
• List of contributors
• Core team members
• List of participants in roundtable consultation
• Partners
• Index.