This report on the conditions and status of the very young children in the 0-6 age group in India has been prepared in the context of the periodic review process of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). The report itself has evolved through a process of consultations and dialogue among different kinds of practitioners concerned with child care and development in India. Our focus is on the very young child as we believe that this most crucial and formative stage in a child’s development needs special and specialised attention. As a citizens’ review, it has adopted a critical perspective which is a useful tool and method of arriving at a true picture of the status of the young child in India, of developing and enhancing

an understanding of the issues involved, and of generating public demand without which the rights enunciated in both the Indian Constitution and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) cannot achieve their full potential. The perspective takes a holistic view that the condition, status and destiny of young children is constantly affected by and indeed closely interconnected with the overall social, economic, political and cultural developments in the country; even as they have special needs but voiceless and mediated rights to care, to health, to educational and cultural development, and to freedom from discrimination, all of which cannot be subsumed or assumed to be provided for within the general or natural social order of things.
 

	Undoing our Future: Summary of the Report on the Status of the Young Child in India read more... << download full text  >>
	Media Advocacy on Early Childhood Care and Development (2005-2008: Process Documentation) read more... << download full text  >>
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	Proceedings of the Regional Consultations on the Status of the Young Child read more... << download full text  >>
	A Primer on ECCD: A Booklet (Hindi)(English) This booklet is developed with an objective to create awareness on the issues affecting the young child. The focus is to understand how the environment of early development related to pre natal environment and post natal care and child caring practices affect the survival, growth and development during early years. It attempts to delineate strategies to facilitate optimal development of the child within the framework of lifecycle and rights approach. The text of this booklet has been organized under the basic sub stages of the lifecycle approach to sensitize and build the technical capacities of the partner organizations to enable them to provide age appropriate interventions for improving child survival, growth and development. read more... << download full text (English)  >> << download full text (Hindi)  >>