As part of its long-term strategy to improve human capital outcomes of adolescents and youth, the state cabinet today approved MPOWER, the Meghalaya Multi-Sectoral Project for Adolescent Well Being, Empowerment and Resilience.
This initiative hopes to transform the lives of the youth in Meghalaya, ensuring their successful transition from school to work and fostering holistic support for health and well-being.
The programme will offer multi-sectoral interventions for adolescents aged 9-19, focusing on building productivity and resilience. The interventions will cover both in-school and out-of-school adolescents, utilising a user-centric approach. As part of this, the Meghalaya Human Development Council has been constituted to provide overall guidance and to channel systemic efforts from all concerned departments, agencies and institutions contributing to improve human development indicators.
MPOWER is the latest in a string of youth-centred policies, such as the Education Policy 2018, the Youth Policy 2021, Early Childhood Development Mission 2021, Health Policy 2021, Mental Health and Social Care Policy 2023, Meghalaya Drug Reduction, Elimination and Action Mission (DREAM) 2023, besides those schemes to encourage young entrepreneurs like PRIME and FOCUS.