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“We do not inherit the earth from
our ancestors; we borrow it from
our children”

About the Theme

The future belongs to children. Therefore, SDGs will not be in the LIF provide a frame for assessment of the GP’s action for
fair sense meaningfully addressed if concerns of children are children.
not flagged in the right light. Putting the children at center point
India has ratified the UNCRC, the UN Convention on Rights of
would enable the society to immensely contribute towards
the Child, which is based on four core pillars of Right to
addressing aspects that would lead to improvement in quality of
Survival, Development, Protection and Participation. The LIF
life of future generations. One third of India’s population
has taken the same 4 pillars for frame of assessment of progress,
comprises of children and the country has a demographic
with relevant indicators for GP level. UNICEF has also given
dividend with adolescent and young people constituting 22 per
valuable inputs for developing the LIF specially related to the
cent of the population. By 2030 the present generation of
Children that forms part of the Panchayat Development Index.
children will be in a different role as adults and youth. Their
involvement in the Panchayats would provide a perspective of UNICEF has signed an agreement with MoPR to support
children for the Panchayat representatives as well as Gram through technical and other support so as to achieve the
Sabha members to think differently. Their aspirations will be Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in rural India with the
factored in and their interests will be better served in the PRIs, with focus on the Child friendly village Theme. Kerala
decisions taken today by adults. Holistic development and has taken lead on Child Friendly Local Governance. In other
sustainable development seen in the context of children is the States too, GPs have been working on aspects of the Child
responsibility of the current generation of decision makers. This friendly LIF, perhaps due to its generic appeal, and the various
generation needs to more seriously consider that their actions schemes connected to children being implemented as flagship
today impact the achieving and the sustainability of the Targets schemes of the GoI, (SSA, Poshan Abhiyan, ICPS, Khelo India,
to be achieved by 2030. The Child Friendly Theme indicators in Beti Bachao Beti Padhao etc), and awards for Child Friendly

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