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The ‘Infant Toddler and Caregiver-friendly Neighbourhoods (ITCN) Training and Capacity Building Programme’ was recently launched

Highlights

• The Programme is designed to help build capacities of city officials and young professionals for developing young children and family-friendly neighbourhoods within cities in India. 
  
• The programme is a continuation of the long-term partnership between NIUA and BvLF to scale up the efforts and embed the lessons of ITC needs at neighbourhood level within the city level programmes.
  
• Under the programme, city officials and young professionals are proposed to be skilled through certified training and capacity building modules. 
  

Objectives

• Embedding the learnings from the inventory of knowledge developed by NIUA and BvLF within the on-going and proposed urban development initiatives at neighbourhood and city level.
• Handholding participants to embed learnings into the various initiatives of the cities which take into account the everyday needs of young children and caregivers.

About NIUA

• National Institute of Urban Affairs was established in 1976, it is a premier Institute of Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India for research and capacity building for the urban sector in India.
• The Institution has been actively working on bringing forth key areas of concern for urban India to build the urban discourse at various urban scales and committed towards aligning its efforts towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through all its initiatives and programs.

About NULP

• The National Urban Learning Platform (NULP) is envisioned as a means of digitally consolidating key skills and knowledge required by urban stakeholders and making these available to all actors on a channel of their choice.
  
• The NULP will include tools to enable and streamline content creation, content organisation and management, course building, course management, assessment and certification.

Source: PIB