Nepal Green Land and Buildings

Project Summary:

The project objective is to promote the use of knowledge-driven mechanisms to operationalize green, resilient, inclusive development and recovery in Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The Grant will support the Government of Nepal (GoN) in the operationalization of Green, Resilient, and Inclusive Development (GRID) in two critical and interlinked areas: (i) Green Land Use, and (ii) Green Buildings and Construction. The grant is directly linked to the GRID Advisory Program Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka PASA deliverable N1.4. and Nepal Urban Governance and Infrastructure Project (NUGIP).  

List of Activities:

• Enhancing green land use planning
• Promoting green building regulations/standards
• Piloting green land use planning and green building regulations at the municipality level

Outcomes:

Output 1:

• Assessment and recommendations report on local land use planning guidelines drafted
• Coordination meetings among MLMCPA, MoFAGA, MoUD, and Development Partners on local land use planning facilitated
• International land use planning conference organized together with Land Management Training Center (LMTC)

Output 2:

• Report with proposals for Green Building Code completed
• Report with proposals to Green Building Guidelines completed
• Assessment Reports on the industry, construction sector, etc published
• Coordination meetings among GoN and Development Partners organized Outcome

Output 3:

• Number of municipality officers trained in technical guidelines for local-level land use planning
• Recommendations report for enhancing land use planning and building code guidelines

Outcomes:

Implementation of the activities will contribute to (i) National technical guidelines for local-level land use planning prepared, published and disseminated; (ii) Inform the development of a trigger on Green Build Code to Third Nepal GRID DPC; and (iii) National technical guidelines for local level land use planning prepared, published and disseminated.

Collaboration with K-Partners and Others:

• Embassy of the Republic of Korea
• Korea Land & Housing Corporation (LH)
• Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT)
• British Embassy Kathmandu (BEK)
• European Commission
• UN-Habitat
• USAID
• IFC