Infant Toddler and Caregiver-Friendly Neighbourhoods (ITCN) Training and Capacity Building Programme
Part of: GS Prelims and GS – II – Policies and interventions
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The ‘Infant Toddler and Caregiver-friendly Neighbourhoods (ITCN) Training and Capacity Building Programme’ was launched recently.
Launchedby: 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
