This podcast will explore GPOBA’s Nepal Solid Waste project. With rapid urbanization, population growth, and new economic activity, municipal solid waste is increasing at alarming rates, and is ...

Waste workers—particularly those employed via subcontractors—have historically lacked contracts, insurance, and protective ...

Informal workers often lack formal written employment contracts, social security and protection against workplace hazards. They face job insecurity ...

Nepal is currently experiencing a combined economic-ecological crisis: rising petroleum imports and a deteriorating environment. Urban municipal waste management is a pressing issue, even though there ...

For years, motorists and pedestrians travelling along the East-West Highway at Chaukidanda in Kailali would instinctively pinch their noses. Just 1.2 kilometres inside the forest, municipal waste was ...