 nurturing neighbourhoods challenge nurturing neighbourhoods challenge admin tue 3232021 1609 nurturing neighbourhoods challenge shaping cities for young children and their families the nurturing neighbourhoods challenge is a 3year initiative hosted by the smart cities mission ministry of housing and urban affairs government of india in collaboration with the bernard van leer foundation and wri india the challenge enables indian cities to adopt an early childhood lens in designing neighbourhoodlevel improvements that promote the health and wellbeing of young children and their caregivers photo credits bernard van leer foundation 1 https smartnetniuaorg nurturingneighbourhoodschallenge web  