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(h) To ensure that community and civil society institutions, services and
facilities responsible for early childhood comply with national quality standards,
especially in the areas of health and social protection, and to develop training
programmes to ensure a quality, suitable and well-trained workforce in these areas;
(i) To take all necessary measures to ensure that the child will be registered
immediately after birth and will have the right from birth to a name, the right to
acquire a nationality and, as far as possible, the right to know and be cared for by
his or her parents, and to implement these rights in accordance with their national
law and their obligations under the relevant international instruments in this field;
(j) To make all possible efforts to promote universal access to birth
registration, ensuring an effective, flexible and accessible system of registration;
(k) To take appropriate measures to ensure the full realization of the right to
education on the basis of equal opportunity for every child, including by providing
accessible, free and compulsory primary education directed to the development of
the personality, talents and mental and physical abilities of the child to his or her
fullest potential, and to improve coordination between primary education, early
childhood care and education services to ensure a better transition to primary
school;
(l) To develop care and educational networks for early childhood with
necessary regulations and appropriate quality, and to ensure that parents, in
particular working parents, legal guardians and other caregivers are provided with
appropriate support in order for their children to fully benefit from such
programmes, especially the poorest, most vulnerable and marginalized children;
(m) To support quality childhood development programmes, accessible to all
children, including in early childhood, through home- and community-based
programmes;
(n) To promote greater understanding and recognition that childcare is a
critical societal function and should be equitably shared between women and men
within the family and households;
(o) To promote and expand comprehensive early childhood care and
education strategies which acknowledge a key role for parents, legal guardians and
the extended family as well as the contribution of organized programmes of early
childhood education provided by the State, the community or civil society
institutions, including private education institutions;
(p) To consider formulating and implementing, at the appropriate level,
comprehensive early childhood care and education policies, to enhance information
and training for parents and other caregivers on quality childcare and on
understanding their role in children’s early education, and to promote training of
professionals working in areas related to early childhood education;
(q) To take effective measures to allow indigenous peoples to have
non-discriminatory access to all levels and forms of education provided by States,
and to promote access for indigenous individuals, particularly children, to education
in their own language, when possible, as addressed in the United Nations
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; 31
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