UNICEF India is designing an ambitious and innovative five-year programme, comprising of social policy as a priority across all the sectors.While designing the new programme, UNICEF wanted to talk with all the stakeholders and get details on how what could be done better in the new environment post COVID-19 and where climate change was a major priority.
UNICEF India to roll out five-year plan
Covid-19 and climate change had exacerbated the learning crisis. Around 286 million children had been affected in India. This number excluded the millions out of school because of several reasons. Kerala had made digital learning accessible. However, it was not case in other States having a digital divide. Digital divide was a new kind of deprivation. Furthermore, in a study of Climate effects on children, India had been ranked at fifth place with respect to vulnerability to climate change.
Overall vision of the UNICEF on social protection was for children to have access to inclusive social protection programmes and live free from poverty. For instance, government’s cash grants to children who lost their parents due to COVID-19.
