The Bhopal Healthy City team along with the National Health Mission of Madhya Pradesh conducted a two-day thematic group consultation workshop at NHM, Bhopal with over 30 participants across the five themes viz individual and family health, food/ nutrition, water, sanitation, and environment. The participants consulted were predominantly from the BHCP Task Force, including government and private stakeholders, development programs, civil society organizations, community organizations, and educational institutions.

Their expertise in specific subject domains provided valuable insights into the current scenario and future planning. Across the five themes, the sub-topics that were covered in this consultation workshop included reproductive and child health, communicable and non-communicable diseases, substance abuse, nutrition security and safety, food habits, water security, conservation and quality, solid and liquid waste management, sanitation facilities, pollution, waste disposal, urban spaces and safe environments.

The collective vision-building exercise enabled the participants to imagine Bhopal as a healthy city and create a vision of their concept of a ‘healthy city’. It included the following themes in the order of priority - healthy food, effective waste management, better urban mobility and traffic management, urban planning and green spaces, community awareness and behavior change communication (BCC), promoting healthy lifestyles, and enhancing inter-sectoral coordination.