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By 2026, Udaipur aims to enhance parental wellbeing and strengthen engagement between caregivers and young children by improving at least one public space* across each zone in the city. This will be fostered through supportive services such as affinity groups, awareness programs and training, while revitalizing traditional caregiving practices, particularly within low-income communities.
Udaipur implemented traffic-calming measures at the Vidhya Bhawan Pre-Primary School entrance to enhance safety for young children and caregivers. Introduced vibrant zebra crossings, “Keep Clear” boxes, zig-zag lines, colorful art, and interactive buffer zones. These low-cost, high-impact interventions slowed traffic, enhanced visibility, created safer crossings, and transformed the space into a lively, engaging zone for children and families.
Under the Urban95 Program, Udaipur revitalized Nayion Ki Talai Chowk into a safe, engaging public space through the “Ghar, Aangan, Sansaar” initiative. The project introduced colorful play tracks, traditional games, murals, spinning wheels, shaded seating, and organized parking, engaging residents and students to create a vibrant, multi-use space for children and caregiver
Under the Urban95 Program, Meera Park in the walled city was temporarily tarnsformed into an engaging, child-friendly space. Using low-cost, reused materials, the park offers safe, sensory play areas for young children and caregivers, promoting learning, play, and community ownership.
Under the Urban95 Program, The Young Kids Festival featured storytelling, clay modeling, painting, pottery, bubble zones, hurdle and target throw games, big ball play, puppet and magic shows, and a learning tree. These activities enhanced children’s motor, sensory, cognitive, and imaginative skills while promoting joyful interaction between young kids and their caregivers.
The Child Priority Zone at Ashok Nagar transformed Hanuman Park into a vibrant, safe, and engaging space for young children and caregivers through cleaning, wall art, seating, signages, plantations, and traffic-calming measures. Community participation, awareness drives, and media outreach further strengthened child-friendly urban development and inspired future citywide intervention
The Sector-11 PHC in Udaipur was transformed into a child- and caregiver-friendly space with ramps, interactive seating, floor games, abacus railings, and educational wall paintings. The initiative enhanced safety, engagement, and early childhood learning, received official appreciation, achieved NQAS certification, and serves as a replicable model for other PHCs.
The institutionalization of child-friendly development in Udaipur was strengthened through three major actions: the vision endorsement, launch of the Child-Friendly Cell and the official notification of the Plantation and Waste to Wonder Play Catalogues.
The Cell acts as a central platform for coordination, knowledge sharing, and monitoring of child and caregiver-focused initiatives, while the catalogues embed child-friendly design principles into all city projects, ensuring consistency, integration of child-friendly features, and long-term sustainability.
The Capacity Building Workshop on Developing Young Children-Friendly Public Spaces equipped City Agencies engineers and staff with knowledge and tools to design inclusive, safe, and engaging public spaces. Through presentations, case studies, and hands-on design exercises, participants improved their technical understanding and committed to integrating child- and caregiver-friendly elements in future park projects. The second and third training was done as a combination of MEL and on how to design a open space or park based on ground situation. It trained participants in data collection, monitoring, and evaluation using tools like People Moving Counts, Activity Mapping, and Intercept Surveys, including a pilot survey at Gulab Bagh to inform child-friendly urban design