Engineers of Kathmandu Valley are trained on Masonry Building

Engineers of Kathmandu Valley are trained on Masonry Building

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CIUD in Collaboration with UN-Habitat successfully provided a comprehensive technical training on masonry building for the civil and structural engineers of the Kathmandu valley. With the key aim of preparing technical human resources for structure designing and analysis as well as supervising the actual implementation of the design in the traditional buildings, the five-day training was confined in the designing aspects of the masonry buildings with the depth analysis of structure system of load bearing buildings. (more…)
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CIUD and Kirtipur Municipality Sign the Agreement to Work in Collaboration and Co-ordination

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CIUD and Kirtipur Municipality Sign the Agreement to Work in Collaboration and Co-ordination with the view of achieving the organization's vision of promoting livable cities and to complement the development plans of Kirtipur municipality ,Mr. Ramesh Maharjan, Mayor, Kirtipur Municipality and Mr. Pushkar Shrestha, Executive Director, CIUD, signed the memorandum of understanding to work in various thematic areas like solid waste management, urban water management including rainwater harvesting and groundwater recharging, fecal sludge management, urban sanitation, public space management , heritage conservation and promotion and many similar urban issues. (more…)
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CIUD Continues its Ventures on Rainwater Harvesting and Groundwater Recharging

CIUD Continues its Ventures on Rainwater Harvesting and Groundwater Recharging

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CIUD Continues its Ventures on Rainwater Harvesting and Groundwater Recharging Centre for Integrated Urban Development (CIUD) has completed yet another rainwater harvesting and groundwater recharging project in the Kathmandu valley. With the completion of the parts of the project in Underprivileged Children’s Educational Program (UCEP) Nepal, Sano Thimi, Bhaktapur, the project Rainwater Harvesting and Groundwater Recharge in Kathmandu Valley has been successfully implemented. The other part of the project was in Ranibari community forest in Ranibari.  The project, a joint initiative of The Coca-Cola Foundation, WaterAid Nepal and CIUD, has been considered as a role model of public private partnership and as an approach in the climate change adaptation in the urban water security. (more…)
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Accessibility of Clean Water and Sanitation:  A Woman’s Reason for a Happiness and for Well Being

Accessibility of Clean Water and Sanitation: A Woman’s Reason for a Happiness and for Well Being

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Sixty-years-old Maili Bharati is a single woman residing in Dhobikhola; ward no 2 of Godawari Municipality with her divorcee daughter and a grandson. She has been single for over 35 years. She raised her two daughters with all she had, doing labor works and farming, but she could not educate her daughters and she regrets it by saying, "If I had the support of my husband's family I could have sent my daughters to school and they wouldn't have to face the crisis and sorrow like me. (more…)
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