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Incorporate ECD into national development plans with clear implementation mechanisms including cost effective, innovative and scalable interventions.
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Develop and strengthen national systems on holistic ECD through a coordinating multisectoral mechanism for the development and review of legislation and policies, coordination of budget allocation and provision of quality services for young children while ensuring the inclusion of the 0–3 age group and children with special needs.
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Articulate the roles and responsibilities of each Ministry, the lead agency for ECD, and mechanisms for interagency collaboration.
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Increase government investment in ECD through recurrent budgets, with the goal of gradually increasing to accept international benchmarks.
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Improve coordination between government and non-government stakeholders who contribute to ECD.
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Provide the requisite resources (including adequate compensation, improved working conditions, the sharing of best practice and knowledge and competency frameworks) to professionalize the ECD workforce.
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Promote parents, community, and other stakeholders’ awareness of the importance of ECD.
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Develop, strengthen and use comprehensive data management, monitoring and assessment systems for informed decisions on early childhood.
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Encourage development partners to increase and harmonize assistance to support regional and national implementation of ECD related priorities.
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Prioritize ECD as a pathway to increase the resilience and adaptive capacity of communities to the effects of climate change and other emergencies; promote close collaboration between the areas of ECD and natural resources, environment and sustainable development; and commit to heightened advocacy for ECD in the global climate discourse and to call for global green financing mechanisms that allow for financing of ECD programmes and services.