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The City Initiative for Newborn Health (CINH), a project implemented in collaboration with the Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action (SNEHA), the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai and the UCL Centre for International Health and Development aims to lower maternal and newborn morbidity and neonatal mortality in the city through community-based strategies and health systems strengthening.
 One of the key intervention strategies is the implementation of participatory action-research cycles with women’s groups in urban slums in Mumbai. Adapting participatory behavioural change approaches to the realities of urban poverty and vulnerabilities across 24 slum clusters across 6 municipal wards is a complex undertaking and the CINH is contributing to both sectoral knowledge on the nature of health vulnerabilities and the effectiveness and impact of such strategies for working with slum communities on maternal health and nutrition.
The CINH also engages with the public health system in Mumbai, seeking to introduce and improve access to primary care especially for maternal and newborn health at the decentralised level, as well as overcome clinical and administrative bottlenecks at the secondary and tertiary levels of care.
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