CHANDIGARH: Street vendors’ implementation case study titled ‘Empowerment of street vendors through capacity building and training under Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihoods Mission to make Chandigarh city a model street-vending hub’ of Chandigarh has been selected by United Nations’ Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) through a Global 2nd Open Call 2021 for sustainable development goal (SDG) Good Practices.
The case study is among 34 projects across the globe under the local government category and one and exceptional in the whole country on building capacity of street vendors.
The objective behind the document is to inspire breakthroughs and success stories that are showing results and impacts, good practices that can be replicated and scaled up, gaps and constraints for redressal and looking ahead, for taking steps to accelerate progress and Chandigarh MC led practice seek to improve knowledge, awareness and skills of street vendors.
Vivek Trivedi, social development officer-cum-vendor cell in-charge, said, “The vendor cell led a practice seek to improve knowledge, awareness and skills of street vendors.
The intervention package focuses on personal hygiene, women and child welfare.
It is imparted along with various social security schemes to sensitize street vendors about their rights.
These objectives are in line with sustainable development goals on health, clean water and sanitation, decent work and economic growth of marginal section of society and innovation and infrastructure.
It also gels with an idea to promote sustainable cities and communities.” The practice is a collaborative initiative of the MC and School of Public Health, PGIMER, funded by DAY-NULM, Chandigarh.
This practice has already been replicated on a larger scale under National Urban Livelihood Mission Punjab, a neighbouring state of Chandigarh following the UT model.
As per information, five years into the implementation of the 2030 sustainable agenda and the sustainable development goals (SDGs), UNDESA launched SDG Good Practices, which is an initiative to document global best practices from diverse stakeholders including governments, UN entities, international and regional organizations, and other stakeholders from all sectors, who have accumulated experiences and lessons learned towards the implementation of the SDGs.
KK Yadav, municipal commissioner-cum-mission director said, “This is an incredible achievement in getting our exceptional and innovative practice getting recognized by the UN.
This is high time to align our work with SDGs, which is pushed by NITI Aayog.
We have further more scope to develop and make improvements towards scaling the practice.”