Children’s opportunities for outdoor free play are declining globally, contributing to growing concerns related to mental health, physical inactivity, childhood obesity, and healthy child development. This initiative, led by HealthBridge brings together researchers, practitioners, civil society organizations, and public officials from Canada, Vietnam, India, Bangladesh, Ghana, and Uganda to strengthen international collaboration on children’s outdoor play and healthy urban environments. The project focuses on sharing knowledge, building partnerships, and co-designing future implementation research related to outdoor free play and child-friendly urban spaces.

Beginning in 2021, HealthBridge Vietnam has been supporting the Global Designing Cities Initiatives in working with the local governments of Ha Noi and Da Nang city and the national government to create safer streets, especially for children.

Sri Lanka has encountered numerous challenges in recent years, worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic and persistent economic issues. It is important to stabilize the economy, improve governance, and address social concerns to secure the country's future.

The Carfree Cities Alliance (CCA) is a global organization that promotes a car-free approach for current and future cities. It consists of individuals and groups committed to building inclusive and sustainable cities. The CCA aims to significantly reduce reliance on cars in current cities and offers a model for more sustainable new cities.

Digo Bikas Institute (DBI) works to ensure people’s rights to health and improving the health of urban residents. DBI currently focuses on creating safe streets for walking, cycling, and community activities.

This is a Livable cities project where the overall objective is to significantly improve urban road safety and reduce traffic fatalities in Vietnamese cities. The project is taking place in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) and Hanoi.

Urban Planning for Community Change focuses on improving the public spaces that are important in people's day-to-day lives including markets, open public spaces, and the streets that surround them in Arusha, Tanzania.

Mmofra Foundation is a child-centred organization that is focused on advocating for the health, recreational, social and economic benefits of more equitably distributed urban green space in Accra, Ghana.

Advocates for Public Spaces (APS), is working with local and national governments on improving the situation for quality and quantity of public spaces including: streets that support walking and cycling, local public markets that provide access to healthy, fresh, local food and open public spaces, such as parks, that provide people with recreation opportunities.

Public Spaces for All is focused on achieving outcomes in three main areas: pedestrian rights, open public spaces and parks, and local public markets.

Work for a Better Bangladesh is focused on tackling major problems such as climate change, non-communicable diseases, traffic accidents, water pollution, noise pollution and air pollution. WBB works to achieve outcomes in three main areas: Streets, markets and open public spaces.

HealthBridge’s local partner in India, Evangelical Social Action Forum (ESAF), has a livable cities program in Bangalore, Nagpur, Thrissur, Calicut, Kochi, Trivandrum, Malappuram, and Guwahati. These programs are focused on building the knowledge base and capacity of policy makers at the local level to identify city specific needs through its various community engagement and research activities.