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Financing Investments in Young Children Globally Summary of a Joint Workshop by the Institute of Medicine, National Research Council, and The Centre for Early Childhood Education and Development, Ambedkar University, Delhi (2015) / Chapter Skim
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4 Lessons on Financing Investments from India
Pages 27-32

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... . Das noted that two reasons for this underinvestment are the poor alignment of financing 1  This section summarizes information presented by Subrat Das and Protiva Kundu, C ­ entre for Budget and Governance Accountability.
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From page 28...
... He gave the example of a housing project for urban poor that was intended to give preference to women with children, but failed to be implemented properly. Das highlighted one essential challenge to implementing and funding policies for child development -- the low magnitude of public resources available in India, or what Das termed a "limited fiscal policy space." Gross domestic product (GDP)
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From page 29...
... Das asserted that at both the central government and state government levels, these initiatives are underresourced, lacking adequate staff, training, and materials, and underfinanced, lacking funds to provide high-quality services.
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... , Das and his team noted that monitoring and supervision of services is not done because there are no resources to hire such finance and accounting staff. Because there are few supervisors on staff, the child development officers themselves take on a number of tasks meant for other positions and cannot sometimes fulfill their own duties.
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From page 31...
... He noted, however, that it is very difficult to prove corruption and that the perception of corruption is not enough to promote change in the government. Social audits, public hearings, and other actions by the court are necessary to prove wrongdoing, and such actions often lie outside the scope of many organizations.
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... LESSONS LEARNED In his discussion, Bose explained that a pattern has emerged: civil society movements pushed the courts to actively establish general principles of governance for the best interests of society, efforts which were taken up by the central government in a series of legislation that led to expanded and sustainable financing of early childhood development programs. He emphasized that not only did the courts recognize certain rights but also the government acted to uphold those rights.
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  • childhood development
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