evidence: Since gaining independence in 1948, Sri Lanka has made considerable progress in improving the day-to-day lives of its citizens and children. Despite the traumas of a civil conflict, a spate of natural disasters and a legacy of political, legal and institutional change, Sri Lanka has done well to advance the situation of children across the country. [...] "...to accelerate the realization of child rights for all children in Sri Lanka, including the most deprived, while promoting strategic investments in children and adolescents to enhance Sri Lanka’s cognitive capital as the basis for sustainable development"