Infant Toddler and Caregiver-Friendly Neighbourhoods (ITCN) Training and Capacity Building Programme 

Infant Toddler and Caregiver-Friendly Neighbourhoods (ITCN) Training and Capacity Building Programme 

Part of: GS Prelims and GS – II – Policies and interventions 

In news

• The ‘Infant Toddler and Caregiver-friendly Neighbourhoods (ITCN) Training and Capacity Building Programme’ was launched recently. 
• Launched by: National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) in partnership with Bernard van Leer Foundation (BvLF).

Key takeaways 

• 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.
• Under the programme, city officials and young professionals are proposed to be skilled through certified training and capacity building modules.
• The training is proposed to be delivered through well-structured training modules, provided online through National Urban Learning Platform (NULP), 
• NULP is the platform developed for knowledge dissemination by MoHUA and NIUA.

Important value additions 

• The National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), is a premier Institute of Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, for research and capacity building for the urban sector in India. 
• It was established in 1976.
• 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