NITI AAYOG AND UNICEF INDIA SIGN STATEMENT OF INTENT ON SDGS FOCUSING ON CHILDREN

NITI AAYOG AND UNICEF INDIA SIGN STATEMENT OF
INTENT ON SDGS FOCUSING ON CHILDREN

Syllabus Section: GS II

Why in News?

 Recently, NITI Aayog and UNICEF India has signed a Statement of Intent (SoI) on the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a focus on children.
 The SoI seeks to formalize a framework of cooperation to launch the first report
on the ‘State of India’s Children: Status and Trends in Multidimensional Child
Development’.

More about the News:

 To achieve the child development priorities under the SDGs, UNICEF India and
NITI Aayog are developing a comprehensive measure to understand the
multidimensional attainments and deprivations.

 Multidimensional attainments and deprivations will be checked among children
across health and nutrition, education, water and sanitation, household living
standards; and protective environment, with the aim of analysing the status of
children around critical child related SDGs to establish recent trends.

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Significance of the Agreement:

 One in every third person in India is a child below the age of 18, while one in
every fifth person is an adolescent between the ages of 10 to 19.

 This effort will contribute to the realization of India’s commitments on the 2030
Agenda

 This new initiative with UNICEF is built on the ethos of SDG attainments for
children and ensuring that no child is left behind.

 Comprehensive measurement of the status of children will pave the way for
multi-sectoral policies and programmes across health and nutrition, education,
safe water and sanitation, child protection, social protection and climate action
to reach the most vulnerable children.

 This project will undertake a whole-of-society approach of involving all
stakeholders ranging from Union Ministries, State Governments, Civil Society
Organizations, and child rights collectives.

Source: PIB