The USAID-funded Building Healthy Cities project is working to improve healthy urban planning across four cities in Asia. One project initiative in Indore, India is to encourage community and nongovernment organization participation in the planning, implementation, and monitoring of public programs related to the social determinants of health (e.g., environment, urban planning, water and sanitation, women and child development, education). This report summarizes the findings from the first step of this activity, which was a qualitative study of infrastructure and services related to environmental health in eight communities, including slum and non-slum areas in Indore. BHC contracted Centre for Urban and Regional Excellence to support this participatory research study.
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