Projects

Established in collaboration with 100 Resilience Cities (100 RC) Program of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Urban Resilience Unit (URU) at the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) aims at promoting and supporting the development of resilient cities across India. 

 The Unit is bringing together theoretical frameworks and practical city assessments for developing evidence and policy frameworks to build local capacity and embed resilience in the urban discourse. These will be used to mainstream resilience within the activities of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA...

“Capacity Building for Smart Data and Inclusive Cities” (SDIC) project is built around a three-year collaboration between National Institute of Urban Affairs (India), Institute of Development Studies, Sussex (UK) and the Indian cities of Bhopal, Jabalpur, Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi.

By strengthening capacities of municipal authorities and civil society, the project aims to improve technical and institutional capacities to ensure adoption of inclusive and resilient strategies in planning and management of selected smart cities.

Sustainable, Healthy, Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC) is one of the 37 major projects funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Research Councils UK Collective Fund. The project aims to build research knowledge in the UK, Asia and Africa, to help address urbanization-related challenges in the developing countries. SHLC will conduct comparative studies of urbanisation with respect to formation and differentiation of neighbourhoods in 2 cities in India in order to address the challenges associated with rural-to-urban migration, health and education....

NIUA has partnered with the Bernard van Leer Foundation, a private grant making organization based in the Netherlands, to promote an initiative to build Child Friendly Smart Cities (CFSC) in India as part of the urban agenda of building smart cities. The goal of this initiative is to mainstream the needs of children and promote the planning and development of child and family-friendly smart cities in India, with a view to transforming existing and new urban areas of the country into safe, liveable, equitable and nurturing environments for all children. The project...

CIDCO has established a ‘CIDCO Smart City Lab’ at NIUA, a research and capacity-building unit that can develop and provide the latest training to CIDCO’s technical personnel, with particular focus on the development of ‘smart cities’. The ‘CIDCO Smart City Lab’ unit is a first step towards the establishment of a national-level training institute in Navi Mumbai. The unit will focus on capturing and creating awareness about the existing knowledge within CIDCO such as the innovations and best practices that have been produced by CIDCO, documenting the history and...

The South Asia Urban Knowledge Hub (the K-Hub) aims to increase the influence of evidence-based advocacy for urban policy and practice in South Asia. Presently consisting of the 4 countries Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India, the K-Hub will build a network of training and research institutions in the region and develop a forum for improving knowledge management within and between countries and regions. K-Hub activities will facilitate sharing of best practices in urban management, infrastructure and services delivery in South Asia...

Social Housing Initiative (SUSHI) was initiated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 2009 to promote sustainable building practices in social housing programmes in developing countries.  It focuses on integrations of sustainable building solutions into social housing programmes so that not only environment, social and economic benefits can be reaped but also help to improve resource and energy efficiencies and to promote better living conditions for low income groups.

As a part of the SUSHI activities in India, UNEP has...

The main objective of the Support Cell is to provide help to the States for compliance of the nine reforms based conditions stipulated by the 13^th Finance Commission, and make them eligible for drawl of Performance Based Grants. Monitoring of the progress made by the states in order to meet the compliance of nine conditions stipulated by the 13^th CFC was completed for which the performance grants will be released in 2013-14.