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The experience of building institutional capacities of communities in organizing and supporting their own early child care facilities has convinced us of the approach, that community ownership of any issue forms the basic premise to initiate any engagement with communities and develop further in enhancing its capacity. It then seems significant to draw interpretations upon consolidation of these experiences for the larger system, in a manner that translates the approach to impact systemic conceptualizations and ways of functioning.

Without limiting this experience to confines of a good alternate model we are keen to derive an approach impacting the existing largest child scheme in the country, the ICDS. The aspects drawn from our approach could clearly be on impacting the learning of children in the anganwandi; building of community ownership towards the facility; redefining roles of the teachers; and role clarity for supervisors and the ICDS hierarchy. This can truly be attempted in liaison with the existing government machinery administering the scheme- the Women & Child development Department, comprehending their structure and functioning and supporting processes which would only enhance the quality of the care & learning entitled to every child.

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