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The second episode of Urban Dabali, was held on February 23, 2026 on “Indigenous Plants and Culture in Nepal for Liveable Cities in Nepal”. The Urban Dabali program is being organised by the Centre for Integrated Urban Development (CIUD) to promote dialogue in urban issues. The program was focused on Raising awareness about the importance of indigenous plants in urban environments, share municipal experiences, academic research, and community initiatives, discuss policy gaps and technical guidelines for urban greening and encourage citizen engagement, school participation and public-private collaboration. The main presentation was delivered by Dr. Nirmala Joshi Pradhan, highlighting on the indigenous plants and endemic plants of Nepal and its linkages with culture, heritage and identity of nation. Importance of indigenous plants in ecology, food security and bio-diversity maintenance. Experts including…

With technical and financial support from WaterAid Nepal and The Coca-Cola Foundation, the Centre for Integrated Urban Development (CIUD) has launched a new WASH initiative in Godawari Municipality. The project, titled “Advancing Resilient WASH Access for Vulnerable Communities in Bangladesh and Nepal (AR-WASH-VCBN)”, aims to ensure safe and affordable drinking water for 714 households in Ward No. 9 through a one house, one tap water supply approach. During the project inception workshop which was held on Jan 16, 2026, a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed among CIUD, Godawari Municipality, and the Chhampi Water and Sanitation Users Committee (WSUC), formalizing roles and responsibilities under this joint technical and financial collaboration. At the workshop, Sudarshan Rajbhandari, Program Director and Project Team Leader, presented an overview of the project, highlighting its…

On August 16, 2024, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed between the Kirtipur Municipality and the Centre for Integtrated Urban Development to implement the project titled Using Innovative Technology to Establish Plastic-Managed Communities and the Rivers in Kirtipur Municipality and Adjacent Wards of Neighboring Municipalities in the Kathmandu Valley. Funded by the World Bank, this project will help promote plastic managed communities in the ward number 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the municipality through the systematic collection of all kinds of plastics and recycling and upcycling them to produce various useful things that can be used both in household and community level.

On January 19, 2024, the Coca-Cola Beverages Nepal, Centre for Integrated Urban Development (CIUD) and WaterAid Nepal (WAN) jointly handed over the groundwater water recharge system, which was installed within the premises of Balaju Park in ward number 16 of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC), to the deputy mayor of the KMC, Ms. Sunita Dangol. The recharge system consists of 21 filter chambers, 21 recharge wells, two disilting chambers, recharge trenches of 75 feet and seven bamboo check dams. These recharge structures are the key outputs of the project titled 'Groundwater Recharge in Balaju Park Area in the Kathmandu Metropolitan City: Addressing Increased Urban Water Demand' which was implemented by CIUD, in financial support from Bottlers Nepal Terai Limited (BNTL), and in technical support from WAN. It has been estimated…

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…

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…

Under the WASH SDG Phase II program, CIUD has been promoting asset management (AMP) as a operation and management tool to ensure a long term functionality and sustainability of the water supply systems and to optimize their services. So far CIUD has prepared asset management plans for three community owned water supply systems and has validated the tool as well. In order to share the knowledge and experience of making the AMP plan with the key development partners, who have been associated with drinking water projects, and also to collect feedbacks and comments from them to make the tool precise and comprehensive, CIUD organized a two-day knowledge sharing workshop on Nov 3 and 4, 2022 at Hotel Kutumba in Lalitpur. The participants of the training were Department of Water Supply…