Green Homes

GREEN HOMES:
Promoting Sustainable Housing in Nepal

Presented by:
Padma Sunder Joshi
Team Leader, Green Homes Project
Green Homes: Promoting Sustainable Housing in Nepal
presentation points
•  The context
•  Intruducing Green Homes Project
•  The Green Components
•  Activities
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•  The Context
•  Activities
3
Why Green Homes?
RURAL URBAN RURAL URBAN RURAL URBAN

63% 37% 53% 47% 40% 60%
1970 2000 2030

•  The rapid urbanisation demands lots of housing stock in urban areas.
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Why Green Homes? Key concerns
•  In Nepal urban growth rate is

one of the highest in Asia
•  Nepal needs more than million

additional urban housing to
cater its increasing population
in this decade
•  The challenge is how to make it

sustainable
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Why Green Homes? Key concerns
•  Buildings account for more than 1/3rd of total

energy use worldwide (UNEP, SBCI, 2008)
•  Buildings are responsible for approximately 30%

of greenhouse gas emissions in cities worldwide
(OECD report)
•  Energy use and carbon emissions occur at

different stages of the building cycle
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What are Green Homes?

•  Green Homes emit fewer greenhouse gases,
consume less energy, use less water, and
offer occupants healthier environments than
do typical buildings.
•  Green Homes use salvaged, recycled or low
carbon materials.
•  They support rainwater harvesting,
•  solar heating, natural ventilation, and/or many
other environmentally friendly practices
•  We are talking about the five eternal elements, the Panch Tatwo
o earth o water o fire o air o sky
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•  The Context

•  Activities
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Introducing Green Homes Project

Public Sector
•  To create enabling policy environment to
SO1
promote sustainable housing; Create enabling
policy
environment to
•  To strengthen supply chains for sustainable promote
housing and building capacity of SMEs to sustainable
deliver household level green technologies SO2 housing
Strengthen
and services; and SO3
supply chain
Stimulating
for
demand for
sustainable
•  To stimulate demand for sustainable sustainable
housing and
housing build capacity
housing
of SMEs
Producers Consumers
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Green Homes Project Approach

Green Homes
Consumer Producer
•  Price •  Technology
•  Quality •  Human Resource
•  Availability •  Investment
•  Reliability •  Policy framework
•  Facilitation
•  Supply chain analysis

•  Capacity building
•  Policy facilitation
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Green Homes Project Area
Pokhara
Sub-metropolitan City
Lalitpur
Sub-metropolitan City
Dharan Municipality
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Launching and Introducing

•  Lauched on May 3, 2013
•  Three orientation programmes were later organized in the three
participating cities viz. Lalitpur, Pokhara and Dharan.
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•  The Context

•  Activities
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Green
Construction
Materials
Bamboo
CSEB Hollow concrete block Earth rammed

Strawbale
Passive Solar
Design
16
Energy
Efficiency
17
Water
Conservation
18
Waste
Management
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•  The Context
•  Activities so far....
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Enabling Policy Environment

•  Supporting to develop Green Building Guidelines and Building Code
•  under preparation
•  promoting sustainable housing in municipal development plans and building by-laws
•  developed implementation plan to promote green homes
•  establishing Counselling Centres in each municipality
•  Introducing green labelling system
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b) CREATING THE POLICY ENVIRONMENT

Outreach and Dissemination
•  Participantion in Eco-fairs and Industrial fairs to reach to general public
and extend networking with SMEs
•  Organized Eco-learns and Eco-visits.
•  Media campaign
•  Partnering with other Switch Asia projects
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Capacity building and training

•  National level training for decision makers from Government and
municiplaities
•  Training for urban poor on sustainable construction materials as Green
Jobs
•  Training for urban women on water, waste water and solid waste
management at household level including urban agriculture.
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c) Outreach and Dissemination
Capacity building and training
•  Learning from European experiences
•  State of art technologies
•  Policy tools
•  Management experiences
•  Exposure visit to the Netherlands
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Success story of a SME
•  Hari Karki a SME trained to
make hollow concrete block 8
months ago
•  Replacing burnt brick by hollow
concrete blocks
•  Invested NPR 300,000 now
increased his earning from NPR
500,000 to 1,300,000
•  Employing 15 youths
•  Thinking of expanding the
industry.
•  Output of consumer education
and SME training
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Urban Agriculture-
a by product
Food security
Community Waste
living management
Urban
Agriculture
Climate
Family change
economy adaptation &
mitigation
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Urban Agriculture- a by product
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Thank you!
United Nations Human Settlements Programme - UN-Habitat

Pulchowk, Lalitpur, Nepal
P.O. Box 107 Kathmandu
Tel: + 977 1 5542816

Fax: + 977 1 5539877
www.unhabitat.org.np
FB: facebook.com/greenhomes.nepal

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GREEN HOMES:

Promoting Sustainable Housing in Nepal

• The Green Components

Why Green Homes?

RURAL URBAN RURAL URBAN RURAL URBAN

1970 2000 2030

Why Green Homes? Key concerns

• In Nepal urban growth rate is

• Nepal needs more than million

• The challenge is how to make it

Why Green Homes? Key concerns

• Buildings account for more than 1/3rd of total

• Buildings are responsible for approximately 30%

• Energy use and carbon emissions occur at

What are Green Homes?

• Intruducing Green Homes Project

Introducing Green Homes Project

Green Homes Project Approach

• Supply chain analysis

Green Homes Project Area

Launching and Introducing

• Intruducing Green Homes Project

• The Green Components

CSEB Hollow concrete block Earth rammed

• Intruducing Green Homes Project

• The Green Components

Enabling Policy Environment

b) CREATING THE POLICY ENVIRONMENT

Capacity building and training

United Nations Human Settlements Programme - UN-Habitat

Tel: + 977 1 5542816

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•  The Green Components

•  In Nepal urban growth rate is

•  Nepal needs more than million

•  The challenge is how to make it

•  Buildings account for more than 1/3rd of total

•  Buildings are responsible for approximately 30%

•  Energy use and carbon emissions occur at

•  Intruducing Green Homes Project

•  Supply chain analysis

•  Intruducing Green Homes Project

•  The Green Components

•  Intruducing Green Homes Project

•  The Green Components