Investing in Early Years in Human Capital for Future Resilience:

The chapter explains the importance of child development in relation to child rights and the SDGs by analysing the role of governance, policy and the localisation of intervention for holistic child development. [...] First, between the two ministries, the Department of Women and Child Welfare and the Education Department in each state, the purpose of and provisioning for the foundational stage needs to be aligned. [...] Further, Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (one of the most widely ratified convention of the United Nations) recognises a child’s right to be heard or express views freely and to have her/his views considered in decision-making to have the government ensure the realisation of their rights and their holistic development. [...] Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (one of the most widely ratified convention of the United Nations) recognises a child’s right to be heard or express views freely and to have their views considered in decision-making, to have the government ensure the realisation of their rights and their holistic development. [...] The vision of leaving no one behind requires that the process of localisation takes in to account the local contexts from Investing in Early Years in Human Capital for Future Resilience: For an Inclusive and Equitable World 55 the very exercise of setting the goals and targets to determining the means of implementation and using indicators to measure and monitor progress (UNICEF, 2022).