From Prevention to Prosperity: India’s Children First Agenda
Harnessing Corporate Leadership for Realising Children’s Full Potential
An initiative by Just Rights for Children in partnership with NDTV
Supported by Strategic Partner Bridgespan
COMING SOON
Every child deserves the chance to be safe, protected, and able to realise their full potential.
India’s future as a Viksit Bharat depends on whether its children can grow with dignity, opportunity, and protection. When vulnerability is prevented early and systems respond effectively, children stay in school, remain healthy, and become capable contributors to the nation’s progress.
This summit brings together corporate leadership, philanthropy, and institutions to build the safety nets that make this possible.
The Context
India is home to nearly 472 million children, about 39 percent of the population. Yet risks remain deeply embedded.
1,77,335
crimes against children recorded in NCRB 2023
9.2 percent
increase from the previous year
3 girls
every minute forced into child marriage
These are not isolated incidents. They reflect systemic vulnerability that interrupts childhood and limits future opportunity. Reducing this requires strong, coordinated safety nets across education, social protection, health systems, and institutional response.
The Opportunity
When safety nets are strong:
Children stay
in school
Risks are identified early
Families access social protection
Harm is prevented before it occurs
Children move towards stability, dignity, and full potential.
Why This Summit
The summit aims to mobilise corporate leadership and unlock investment to:
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Strengthen safety nets around every child
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Reduce vulnerability at scale
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Enable pathways to full potential
It creates a shared space where leadership aligns, partnerships deepen, and action becomes coordinated.
Why Just Rights for Children
Just Rights for Children is convening this summit from a position of both scale and systems leadership, anchored in a prevention-first approach that recognises that when children are protected early, they remain in school, access opportunity, and grow into contributors to India’s social and economic progress. Working across more than 450 districts with a network of over 300 partner organisations, it operates at an unparalleled scale, engaging the full spectrum of the ecosystem from the Union Government and state institutions to law enforcement, civil society, schools, and communities. This depth and breadth of engagement enables a shift from fragmented, reactive responses to coordinated, preventive protection at scale. Convening this platform is therefore both timely and necessary, bringing together corporate leadership, philanthropy, and institutions with the clear understanding that no single actor can address this challenge alone, but through aligned action and shared purpose, it is possible to build strong safety nets around every child and enable them to become torchbearers of sustainable development and national progress
Why This Matters for CSR
Child protection is central to national development.
It directly advances:
Education
Livelihoods
Gender equality
Health
Community resilience
CSR has a unique opportunity to invest in systemic change through:
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Scalable prevention models
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Technology-driven protection systems
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Strengthening frontline institutions
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Reintegration and opportunity pathways
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Cross-sector collaboration
These are investments with long-term social and economic returns.
What the Summit Will Focus On
Understanding vulnerability
How risks emerge and shape long-term outcomes
Ensuring protection after harm
Rehabilitation, reintegration, dignity
Preventing vulnerability at its roots
Education, livelihoods, and early response
CSR as a catalyst
Scaling models that work
Building systemic support
Integrated action across sectors
A Shared Space for Leadership
This summit is a platform to align corporate leadership, philanthropy, and institutions around a children-first agenda.
To move from fragmented effort to coordinated action. From isolated impact to systemic change.
From Vulnerability to Opportunity
The question is not whether this matters. The question is whether we will act at the scale required.
Join the summit. Shape the future.