{"id":90715,"date":"2020-11-06T15:32:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T10:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=18387"},"modified":"2021-05-17T14:28:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T08:58:35","slug":"union-minister-of-housing-urban-affairs-launches-initiatives-for-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-of-housing-urban-affairs-launches-initiatives-for-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Minister of Housing &#038; Urban Affairs launches initiatives for Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Union Minister of Housing &amp; Urban Affairs has launched several initiatives namely Nurturing Neighborhoods Challenge and Data Maturity Assessment Framework Cycle 2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nurturing Neighborhoods Challenge<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What is it? <\/strong>It is a 3-year initiative that aims to support cities to develop, pilot and scale solutions that enhance the quality of life of young children, their caregivers and families in the public realm.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Implementation: <\/strong>The challenge is conducted with the support of the Bernard van Leer Foundation, Netherlands with technical support from World Resources Institute(WRI) India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features: <\/strong>Under the challenge, selected cities will receive technical assistance and capacity-building to reimagine parks and open spaces; improve access to early childhood facilities; adapt public spaces with early childhood oriented amenities; and create accessible, safe, walkable streets for young children and families.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eligibility: <\/strong>The challenge will be open to all Smart Cities, other cities with more than five lakh population, and capitals of States and UTs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-of-housing-urban-affairs-launches-initiatives-for-cities\/\">Data Maturity Assessment Framework<\/a>(DMAF):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Background: <\/strong>The Smart Cities Mission had launched the DataSmart Cities Strategy in 2019 as a roadmap for harnessing the potential of data to address complex urban challenges across 100 Cities.\n<ul>\n<li>To successfully implement this initiative, the Data Maturity Assessment Framework was launched to encourage cities to strengthen their data infrastructure and facilitate them in assessing their readiness and maturity on data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>DMAF-2: <\/strong>It aims to support cities to assess their own data maturity with respect to a standardized framework covering aspects of enabling policies, governance structures, capacity building and stakeholder engagement at the city level.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Data Maturity<\/strong> is the extent to which an organisation utilises the data they produce.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Union Minister of Housing &amp; Urban Affairs has launched several initiatives namely Nurturing Neighborhoods Challenge and Data Maturity Assessment Framework Cycle 2. Facts: &nbsp; Nurturing Neighborhoods Challenge: What is it? It is a 3-year initiative that aims to support cities to develop, pilot and scale solutions that enhance the quality of life of young&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-of-housing-urban-affairs-launches-initiatives-for-cities\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Union Minister of Housing &#038; Urban Affairs launches initiatives for Cities<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1731],"tags":[7951,7952],"class_list":["post-90715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-and-acts","tag-data-maturity-assessment-frameworkdmaf","tag-nurturing-neighborhoods-challenge","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704815110},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}