Chennai: National Institute ofĀ Urban Affairs (NIUA) in partnership with Bernard van Leer Foundation (BvLF) has virtually launched the “Infant Toddler and Caregiver-friendly Neighbourhoods (ITCN) Training and Capacity Building Programme”.
It said 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 Infant, Toddler, Caregiver needs at neighbourhood level within city level programmes. 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 training modules, provided online through National Urban Learning Platform (NULP), the platform developed for knowledge dissemination by NIUA and Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA).