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Community Cleaning Activity under Solid Health Project

May Measure Month (Mass Screening) 2024

ENSURE Team meeting with Labor Minister.

Sometimes, we can turn threat into an opportunity through participatory community approach.

Female Community Health Volunteers participating in Focus Group Discussion

Blood pressure measurement by a Female Community Health Volunteer during home visit

Public awareness campaign against diabetes 2024.

Where it all began

About Us

Nepal Development Society is the leading research NGO from Nepal established in 2013. It focuses on governance, public policy, research and planning. It imparts services for deeper impact of policy, plan and development process with due attention on social, economic, health and environmental issues at national and sub-nation levels.

The organization has a team of experts with several years of experiences from diverse sectors such as health, agriculture, forestry, engineering and social science. It has gained substantial experience on farmers’ health, effects of pesticides, gender-based violence, community-based intervention for hypertension and diabetes, female community health volunteers, cooperatives for farmers, fields of governance, institutional development, management, development planning caters the needs of …

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Our Principles

VISION

To catalyse research, innovation and development in Nepal by working together in diverse areas such as health, education, information and technology.

Mission

To work with the local community, transforming their lives by working together and using indigenous knowledge to build better health, education and information systems.

Goals

To improve public health through prevention and management of non-communicable diseases, maternal and child health, and women’s health by working directly with communities, empowering local health system, and integrating indigenous knowledge to build resilient, people-centred health systems.
To lead evidence-based research and innovation across health, education, environment, and technology sectors, contributing to national policy, strengthening institutional capacity, and facilitating the exchange of global best practices for sustainable development in Nepal.
To ensure gender equality, social inclusion, and equitable access to health and education services by actively engaging women, marginalized groups, and local communities in the design, delivery, and ownership of development initiatives.

Objectives

To work on health, human resources, agriculture, energy, tourism, education, environment and information through developmental experiences for societal development.
To provide services on all aspects of health (promotive, preventive, curative, protective and restorative) with an aim to build a healthy society.
To support the creation of communities with gender transformative practices, social equity, and free from caste and any form of discrimination.
To promote scientific, innovative and technological developments for the transformation of underprivileged and marginalized communities.
To improve access to media to assure the right to information of individuals.
To enable opportunities for mutual learning through the exchange of subject-matter experts and volunteers at the national and international level.
To productively utilize the learned experiences of an ageing population by acknowledging their dependency as a fundamental right to foster their meaningful engagement in societal changes by reducing the generation gaps.
To promote the principle of No One Left Behind by offering programs and services for the hard-to-reach population.
To transform learned skills and experiences from the Nepalese diaspora for national development.

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Activities and Impact

What people say about us

Success Stories

English
नेपाली
“The overall volume of waste from our house has reduced. We put all degradable waste to compost chamber to prepare compost. We use compost in our kitchen garden. We do not have to buy chemical pesticides and fertilizers now. We have also reduced the use of plastic materials. Since I am a chairperson of my area/tole, I also make sure all community houses manage waste properly. Our area has become cleaner now.”

“कुहिने फोहोरलाई कम्पोष्टिङ्ग रिङ्गमा हाल्ने र मल बनाउने गरेबाट हाम्रो घरबाट फाल्न पर्ने फोहोर निकै कम हुन थालेको छ । उत्पादित मल करेसाबारीमा हाल्छौँ । रासायनिक विषादी र मल अब किन्नै पर्दैन । प्लास्टिकजन्य वस्तुहरु पनि साह्रै कम प्रयोग गर्न थालेका छौँ । टोल विकास संस्थाका अध्यक्ष भएको नाताले सबै घरधुरीमा फोहोर व्यवस्थापन उचित भए नभएको पनि हेर्छु । अहिले त टोल नै सफा भएको छ ।”

KESHAV HADKHOLE
Trainee
English
नेपाली

“I used to collect dispose all types of waste together. The training by Nepal Development Society made me aware about types of waste, segregation and disposal as per its nature. I learned 70% of household waste is used to prepare compost and I am practicing it. 20% is reused and sold to recyclers. Remaining 10%, which are mostly hazardous, I send to municipal vehicle for its proper disposal.”

“मैले घरमा उत्पादन भएको सबै प्रकारको फोहोरलाई एकै ठाउँमा फांल्ने गर्थेँ । नेपाल विकास समाजले दिएको तालिमबाट फोहोरको प्रकार र यसको प्रकृतिको आधारमा कसरी व्यवस्थापन गर्ने स्पष्ट भयो । घरमा उत्पादन हुने ७०% कुहिने फोहोर त आफैले कम्पोष्ट मल बनाउन सकिँदो रहेछ । अजैविक फोहोर भने मिल्ने जति पुन प्रयोग गर्ने र बाकी पुन प्रशोधनको लागि पठाउँदा अर्को २०% व्यवस्थापन भएको छ । अब फाल्नै पर्ने हानिकारक फोहोर जम्मा १०% रहँदो रहेछ र यसलाई नगरपालिकाको गाडीमा पठाउने गरेको छु ।”

Aarati Adhikari
Trainee