Traditional Pond Conservation Workshop

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In collaboration with Lalitpur Metropolitan City and Lagankhel Batabaran Sudhar Sanstha, CIUD organized a knowledge sharing workshop titled ‘Traditional Pond Conservation’ on June 2, 2023. The objective of the workshop was to share the key findings of various studies conducted by researchers and experts on various dynamics of the traditional ponds including their socio-cultural, ecological and technical aspects. Three experts presented their research works depicting the religious, cultural hydrogeological significance of the ponds. One of the researchers engineer Padma Sundar Joshi, Chairperson, CIUD, shared his findings on feasibility study of reviving the Tikabhaitav Rajkulo, a traditional irrigation canal that was built specially to feed the ponds in the upper region of the Patan city for the purpose of groundwater recharging. A representative from Bhaktapur also shared his experience of pond…
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Knowledge sharing program on health-care waste management

Knowledge sharing program on health-care waste management

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Health-care waste management is one of the pressing health, environmental and social issues in Nepal. This extra hazardous waste needs a separate mechanism of management with special procedures and processes to treat them before mixing them with other municipal waste in order to prevent possible contamination to the hand handlers and also to minimize health and environmental hazards. Though, it has been made mandatory by the Nepal government to make the producers, such as hospitals, to manage their health-care waste by themselves, it is still a big question whether all the health-care centers have the knowledge and are following the standard procedure or not. A knowledge sharing program, therefore, was organized by Centre for Integrated Urban Development, in collaboration with Kirtipur municipality, on June 7, 2023, to impart the knowledge…
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Handover of an E-Rickshaw for Centralized Bio-Medical Waste Management in Kirtipur Municipality

Handover of an E-Rickshaw for Centralized Bio-Medical Waste Management in Kirtipur Municipality

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Under the project Participatory Training 4 Sustainable Waste Governance: South-South Knowledge Transfer Program (A R4D Transformation Acceleration Grant or TAG Project), CIUD handed over an electric rickshaw to the Kirtipur Municipality to support municipality’s centralized bio medical waste management initiation, on Dec 29, 2022. The rickshaw was handed over by Mr. Subarna N Joshi, Admin and Finance Manager, CIUD, to Ms. Shuva Laxmi Shakya, Deputy Mayor of the Kirtipur Municipality. Also, present in the program were Mr. Laxmi P Banskota, Chief Administrative Officer, Er. Rupesh Maharjan, Chairperson of Ward 1, Mr. Hira Lal Maharjan, Chairperson for ward 2, Mr. Santaman Manandhar, Head, Department of Health, and Mr. Gyan Bazra Maharjan, WASH Focal Person and Anuj Pradhan, Department of Social Development, from Kirtipur Municipality, and the representatives of Lions Club/Blood Bank…
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