About us

Centre for Urban and Regional Excellence (CURE India)
Established and Registered 2001, New Delhi


CURE is a development NGO with a vision to create an enabling environment for pro poor urban and social policy advocacy through inclusive planning and governance processes, community, government and private sector partnerships, institutional capacity building and reform. Its poverty alleviation agenda is pursued by way of grass root intervention projects, policy/evaluation research, technical capacity building, and setting up of community based information systems.



Its areas of work cut across all sectors of development including urban livelihoods, access to basic services of water supply and sanitation, housing, education, health and nutrition. It works at all levels of government national, state and local; has created sustainable partnerships with state government agencies, donors, and NGOs; has networked with research institutions internationally (London Metropolitan University, MIT, Emory University, University of Illinois, Paris Institute of Urban Planning and Civil Engineering, MapAction UK, University of Westminster); and provides studio and live project opportunities to students from around the world.