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specific early childhood programmes, and to further enhance the efforts of the
international community to improve cooperation to assist developing countries in
achieving all internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium
Development Goals;
(aa) To develop or enhance programmes to support parents, legal guardians
and other caregivers in their child-rearing role through the development of
health-care, education and social welfare services, including quality early childhood
development programmes, prenatal and post-natal services and social safety
programmes for disadvantaged groups;
(bb) To ensure that funding for comprehensive early childhood development
programmes is considered during resource allocation in order to ensure their full
implementation;
(cc) To provide training, as appropriate, with the aim that early childhood
professionals and educators have sufficient skills and knowledge connected to
responsive care and stimulation, proper nutrition and health, and that they are
sufficiently remunerated and incentivized;
(dd) To develop, strengthen and implement national systems for collecting,
monitoring and evaluating disaggregated national data on relevant aspects of early
childhood development, including on neonatal, infant and under-five mortality rates;
44. Calls upon all Member States, and invites the United Nations system, to
strengthen international cooperation to ensure the realization of the rights of the
child, including in early childhood, inter alia, by supporting national initiatives that
give more emphasis to early childhood development, as appropriate;
45. Calls upon the relevant entities, funds and programmes of the United
Nations system, donor institutions, including the international financial institutions,
and bilateral donors to support, inter alia, national initiatives, when requested,
including early childhood development programmes, financially and technically, as
well as to enhance effective international cooperation and partnership to strengthen
knowledge-sharing and capacity-building for early childhood, in terms of policy
development, programme development, research and professional training;
IV
Follow-up
46.
Decides:
(a) To request the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
sixty-sixth session a comprehensive report on the rights of the child containing
information on the status of the Convention on the Rights of the Child1 and the
issues addressed in the present resolution, with a focus on the rights of children with
disabilities;
(b) To request the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for
Children and Armed Conflict to continue to submit reports to the General Assembly
and the Human Rights Council on the activities undertaken in the fulfilment of her
mandate, including information on her field visits and on the progress achieved and
the challenges remaining on the children and armed conflict agenda;
(c) To request the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on
Violence against Children to continue to submit annual reports to the General
Assembly and the Human Rights Council on the activities undertaken in the
fulfilment of her mandate;
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