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The Nurturing Neighbourhoods Challenge hosted by the Smart Cities Mission, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India, in collaboration with Van Leer Foundation and with the technical support of WRI India. This Challenge aimed to incorporate a focus on neighbourhood-level improvements that promote healthy early childhood development (0-5-year-old children) in the planning and management of Indian cities.

 

In furthering the young children and caregiver-oriented lens for neighbourhood development in Indian cities, the new phase of the program, Nurturing Neighbourhoods 2.0 starting July 2024 with the support of Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and Van Leer Foundation, WRI India will provide technical support till December 2026 to help deepen and sustain efforts in selected Nurturing Neighbourhoods Challenge cities, 2 Urban95 Lighthouse cities (Pune & Udaipur) and selected States. By 2027, the program will support a Network of Cities in India to lead mainstreaming of the young children and caregiver-centric development through supportive infrastructure and services, resulting in improved access to public spaces within walking distances along with enhanced health and wellbeing of young children and caregivers.

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs is the apex authority of Government of India to formulate policies, coordinate the activities of various Central Ministries, State Governments and other nodal authorities and monitor programmes related to issues of housing and urban affairs in the country. The Smart Cities Mission was launched by the Ministry in 2015 to promote sustainable and inclusive cities that provide core infrastructure and give decent quality of life to its citizens, a clean and sustainable environment and application of ‘Smart’ Solutions

WRI India

WRI India works to improve people’s lives, protect and restore nature, and address climate change. As an independent research organization, we leverage our data and expertise to catalyze change across systems like food, land and water; energy and cities. To accelerate progress at scale, we also engage with the economic, finance and governance systems that are key to enabling this change.

Van Leer Foundation

Since 1949, the Van Leer Foundation has been dedicated to supporting young children, caregivers and communities worldwide. We do this by bringing people together with different perspectives and supporting them to achieve large-scale impact. Urban95 is an initiative created by the Van Leer Foundation to help city leaders, planners and urbanists understand how their work can influence child development. We support cities to reframe their governance strategies, public policies, budget allocations, knowledge sharing and training with the lens of 95cm, the height of a 3-year-old.

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