Our Impacts

Celebrating this year’s World Habitat Day with the slogan ‘managing municipal solid waste’, CIUD and partners successfully organized Urban Dabali on September 28 at DUDBC hall in Babarmahal. In the presence of about one hundred audience, from different sectors including government and the private and the audience who were connected virtually (similar to webinar), the three speaker expressed their views and opinions on the municipal solid waste management from different angles through the power point presentations followed by the questions and answers. (more…)

The five-day Child Centered Risk Mapping (CCRM) program designed for the school students by CIUD, in collaboration with UNICEF Nepal, has been successfully conducted in two schools, Kumudini Kunj Secondary School and Jana Pravat Secondary School, both in Kathmandu Metropolitan City.     (more…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

Urban Dabali is a platform created by Centre for Integrated Urban Development (CIUD) in 2010, where different urban issues are discussed. In continuation to this, to reach the wider ordinance Urban Dabali started electronic means of discussion programme, too. (more…)