Aspiration #5 Aspiration 5: Every child grows up well-nourished and with access to the basic necessities of life. By 2020, States • should be supporting family and community-based actions that enhance children’s health, nutrition and wellbeing, including safe drinking water, improved sanitation and hygiene as well as appropriate young child feeding practices and food security measures when needed; • should have allocated adequate resources to the wellbeing of children, in particular, to ensure access to basic nutrition, health and education through pro-poor social protection programmes for those most in need, including the most vulnerable children; States should have increased their investment in basic services for its population, while focusing on children; • should have achieved universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all; States should have achieved access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and ended open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations; • should be focusing on the poorest and most vulnerable in the distribution of allocations, in order to reduce inequalities affecting the population as a whole, including children; • should have adopted and be implementing pro-poor social protection policies and programmes, such as cash transfers or child grants for all vulnerable children, and particularly for child-headed households; • should have institutionalised social protection by putting in place appropriate institutional arrangements to build the capacity of systems and individuals to efficiently deliver social protection services; • should have made an explicit commitment to entrench children’s socio-economic rights within national legislation or in their constitutions; • should have developed and implemented a minimum social protection package, consisting of at least targeted child support grants to the poorest segment of the population, within a comprehensive social protection system through progressive expansion and coverage of programmes to reach all those most in need of such services; 45