Whenever we start talking about private sector engagements most of us immediately jump into Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Public Private Partnership (PPP). But do we really understand the gravity of the terms and efforts required to achieve these? Our understanding – may be time to have a reality check. We were in an interesting…
Originally posted on PRAGATI:
Among others, engagement with the private sector on Disaster Risk Reduction makes PRAGATI Project unique. PRAGATI is an urban Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) project being implemented in Sankharapur Municipality in Kathmandu and Changunarayan Municipality in Bhaktapur District. Realizing the importance of partnership with private sector, the project is working closely with…
Originally posted on Sustainable Safety Solutions (S$S):
Published in Magazine Issue: Vol:09,No 13 January 22, 2016 (Magh 8,2072) A hazard has numerous risks attached to it and can present itself in many forms such as natural calamity, technological crisis or man-made tragedy. Businesses could face technological disasters such as supply-chain interruption, building collapse, information technology…
Originally posted on PRAGATI:
Photo & Text – Pratap Maharjan, Nagina Dangol & Rojan Shrestha The PRAGATI project in collaboration with Local Disaster and Climate Resilient Committee (LDCRC) organized a 7-day training on low cost disaster resilient housing using interlocking bricks in Shankharapur from 15 March – 21 march, 2018. The training, first of its…
Originally posted on PRAGATI:
Pratap Maharjan Programme Manager, NDRC While the entire country was celebrating National Earthquake Safety Day on January 16, 2018, Shankharapur was relatively quiet. Unlike last year, when thousands of people from Shankharapur and different organizations took over the street of Shankhu to commemorate NESD, this year only handful of youth and…
Originally posted on PRAGATI:
Local Disaster and Climate Resilient Committee supported by the PRAGATI project organized a street drama on Earthquake safety at Chalakhu Tole of Shankharapur Municipality. More than 200 community members watched the street drama that conveyed the message of the earthquake safety tips (before, during and after) the earthquake. Safe building construction…
Originally posted on PRAGATI:
प्रताप महर्जन संसारभर हरेक वर्ष विपदका कारण ठुलो जान धनको क्षति हुने गरेको छ | यसरि हुने धनजनको क्षति न्यूनीकरण गर्न जनचेतना जगाउने र पैरवी गर्न संसारभर हरेक वर्ष अक्टोबर १३ का दिन विपद न्यूनिकरणको लागि अन्तराष्ट्रिय दिवस विभिन्न कार्यक्रमको आयोजना गरि मनाउने गरिन्छ | यस वर्ष सेन्डाइ फ्रेमवर्क को लक्ष…
Source: विपद न्यूनीकरण को लागि अन्तराष्ट्रिय दिवस मनाइयो
“Newa juya newa bhya waimakhu, gayeu Newa pi chipi” (Being a Newar you do not know Newari language). I have to hear this each time I ask my grandmother to translate whatever she told in Newari to Nepali for my comprehension. And my easy answer would be “Newa gaame chonsaka Newa bhya woi, kheteyu basti…
Macchindanath’s Jatra, it was the last time I heard Dhime (newari music) and almost forget. It was just yesterday I realized how wonderful it is to hear the Newari Musical instruments. And guess what, it was my brother’s marriage. The Djs and western Bands had took over the ethnic identity and played in marriages and…
Driverless cars, smart homes, streetcars and high-speed rail, skyscrapers clad in solar panels – there are a lot of visions out there as to what smart, connected cities will look like. Sometimes, though, it seems these visions forget one important element – people. For all the gee whiz, self-aware technology one can conjure, too often…
Source: thethirdpole.net Author: Ramesh Bhushal Nepal’s government has decreed that developers can build cement factories, with a 3,000 tonnes capacity, without carrying out an environmental impact assessment. Dr. Ramsharan Mahat, Nepal’s finance minister, said the decision will help reduce cement imports and help boost investment in roads and other infrastructure, as he announced his budget…
After the massive earthquake on 25th April Everyone thought Tourism of Nepal will not rise again. Whats there to see in Nepal?? Kathmandu is heavily devastated along with 13 other districts, but there are still 62 districts left. 62 districts rich in beauty, areas that challenges the limit of adventure and the area that offer…
Originally posted on Water We Doing?:
Nearly a month after the April 25 earthquake, the aftershocks, which have otherwise become no more than statistics – five today and three yesterday, with the epicenter north of Kathmandu or faraway in Dolkha – continue to be of some concern. The USGS advisory issued on May 20 haven’t…
Tourism, homestay, Ghalegaun, peeking into social perspective of tourism and its implication in livelihood- it was a predefined but flexible module of field visit of KU Masters in Sustainable Development Scholars in 2014. Homestay, a different emotion ran down in my veins when I first heard it. Sheltering with some unknown people in their home and…
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