GIZ Nepal

05/06/2026

Marking the World Environment Day: Clean Energy and Safe Waste Management in Dhulikhel 🇳🇵🤝🇩🇪

In Dhulikhel, Nepal and Germany's long-standing partnership in the health and energy sector came together around services that matter deeply to people's everyday lives—reliable energy for critical health services, and environmental safety through waste management. 🚰✨

On Wednesday, together with the Dhulikhel Hospital, and the Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC), the German Development Cooperation, including GIZ, KFW, and the German Embassy, celebrated two important milestones: the inauguration of the Dhulikhel Hospital Solar Project and the Healthcare Waste Management Treatment Site with autoclaves - a high-pressure steam sterilizers for waste.

What does this mean for the Dhulikhel community?

☀️The 500-kW solar PV system with battery storage will bring more reliable electricity to critical healthcare services, including the main hospital buildings, academic facilities, and the Lung Centre. This reflects Germany's continued commitment to Nepal's clean energy transition.

Once operational, solar panel integration will also help reduce electricity costs, freeing up resources for the health services that matter most to patients.

♻️ By improving how waste is segregated, treated and managed, the Healthcare Waste Management Treatment site with autoclaves treats infectious waste, helps protect patients, hospital staff, and surrounding communities, while reducing pressure on landfill sites. 🛡️🏘️

For Dhulikhel Hospital, recyclable waste recovery also helps generate income to reinvest in hospital services, supporting their vision to establish a Centre of Excellence for Healthcare Waste Management Training, a model for improved standards across Nepal's health sector. 🌱 This model also integrated national guidelines developed into academic and professional training programmes.

🩺For patients, reliable energy means uninterrupted healthcare services. For health workers, safe waste management means a cleaner and safer working environment.

This is community ownership and international development cooperation in practice: Nepal's priorities, local ownership, German cooperation and practical solutions that reach communities. 🏫📚

02/06/2026

01/06/2026

On 20–21 May, we at CPS of GIZ Nepal came together for our All-Partners Meeting to learn, reflect and strengthen our collective commitment to peacebuilding.

Together we explored new masculinities, trauma-informed peacebuilding, and organizational development creating space for meaningful dialogue, shared learning and transformative action.

💛 Special to this year’s meeting was the introduction of childcare support provisions. We know that behind every participant are responsibilities, relationships and care work that often go unseen. By supporting caregivers to attend, we took a small step toward ensuring that everyone has a place at the table. Because meaningful inclusion starts with us!

Thank you to all partners who contributed their voices, experiences and perspectives. Together, we continue working towards more inclusive, equitable, and peaceful communities across Nepal. ✨

28/05/2026

Menstrual Hygiene Day
In Nepal, harmful practices like Chhaupadi still force women and girls into silence, exclusion and stigma during menstruation. But change begins when women unite.

Through our workshop, 18 inspiring women from diverse backgrounds gathered for three powerful days of learning, dialogue and creative expression. Using methods from the Theatre of the Oppressed, participants challenged myths around menstruation and turned their experiences into impactful live performances. 🎭💪

At Mokshada School, the play sparked an open menstrual health discussion where performers answered curious questions and explained menstrual care products to 200 engaged students.

Menstruation is natural — stigma is not.

Let’s stand together to break the silence, challenge harmful practices and create a future where every girl and woman can live with dignity and without fear.

👉 Join the conversation. Speak up. Share this message and help us.

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German Embassy Kathmandu

25/05/2026

Pourakhi Nepal🏠, with support from GIZ MEG programme, has developed two videos exploring care work and its many dimensions- an important yet often overlooked and misunderstood issue in Nepal.

Care work sustains our families, communities, and economies, yet it often remains unseen and undervalued. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

In Nepal, the unequal burden of unpaid care work is also closely linked to women’s economic opportunities and migration decisions, shaping the experiences of many women who seek employment abroad.

To spark conversations and raise awareness on the many dimensions of care work, the videos highlight the characteristics, realities, challenges, and importance of care work in our society.

Through powerful stories and perspectives, these videos aim to promote recognition, redistribution, and respect for care work and the people behind it.

🎥 Watch, reflect, and join the conversation on building a more equitable and caring society. 🤝

Diaspora2030 |

25/05/2026

What does sustainable development look like beyond the classroom for Nepali youth?

becomes more meaningful when young people connect theory with practice and imagine their own role in shaping a sustainable future for Nepal. 🌏✨

Last Thursday, Kantipur City College(KCC) SDG Ambassador Fellows and GIZ came together for an educational excursion and an interactive exchange on how development cooperation is understood, designed, and implemented in real-world contexts. The fellows identified development challenges, shared issues they care about most deeply, and their own contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals in Nepal. 🤝🎓

Nepal and Germany’s cooperation has always been grounded in the belief that lasting development is built by the people it serves. The face of this looks different in every generation. On Thursday, it looked like 34 young Nepalis already deeply envisioning the future they want to shape. 🌟

What we learned:
🌱 Nepali youth are active thinkers, problem-solvers, and future practitioners. German Development Cooperation remains committed to showing up for that energy consistently and supporting spaces where it can grow.
🤝 Collaboration between academic institutions and development organizations can help bridge classroom learning with practical exposure, fostering knowledge exchange and civic engagement.
🌍 Supporting youth learning also strengthens Nepal’s future capacity for inclusive, climate-conscious, and locally grounded development.

The SDGs need young Nepalis. This exchange reminded us that young Nepalis are more than ready.

German Embassy Kathmandu | Kantipur City College(KCC) | Khanal

11/05/2026

🏆⚽ Champions Again! ⚽🏆

Heartiest congratulations to Team GIZ Nepal for winning the 12th AIN Futsal Cup! 🎉🔥

This marks the third AIN Futsal Cup title for GIZ Nepal, a remarkable achievement built on teamwork and dedication. Your hard work and commitment have made the entire GIZ family proud! ✨

Special congratulations to Schlagert for being awarded Player of the Tournament 🏅 and to Purushottam Maharjan for winning the Best Goalkeeper award 🧤⚽. Your outstanding performances played a vital role in this achievement!

A big appreciation to everyone who supported the team on and off the field. Together, this victory becomes even more special! 🥇🎊

06/05/2026

On 30 April 2026, the Multi-Stakeholder Preparatory Consultation for the IMRF 🌍 brought together a diverse group of stakeholders 🤝, including representatives from over 15 civil society organizations 🏢, trade unions ✊, journalists 📰, development partners such as IOM and ILO, as well as members of the Nepali CSO delegation attending the International Migration Review Forum 2026 (IMRF) in New York 🗽.

Led by the National Network for Safe Migration (NNSM) and supported by the GIZ programme Shaping Development-Oriented Migration (MEG), the consultation served as a critical platform 🗣️ to consolidate civil society perspectives ahead of the global forum. The discussions reflected a strong commitment to advancing a rights-based ⚖️, gender-responsive 👩‍🤝‍👩, and climate-sensitive 🌱 approach to migration governance.

Participants engaged in in-depth deliberations on key priorities, which were subsequently captured in a consolidated Civil Society Position Paper 📄. Central recommendations emphasized the need for:
• Portability of social security and comprehensive insurance coverage for migrant workers 🛡️
• Fair and ethical recruitment practices, including the employer-pay model 🤝
• Strengthened bilateral labour migration agreements with effective enforcement mechanisms 📑
• Protection of migrant workers’ rights, including access to justice ⚖️, legal identity 🆔, and freedom of association ✊
• Gender-responsive and rights-based reintegration, with attention to vulnerable groups 👩‍👧‍👦
• Integration of climate mobility considerations into migration governance frameworks 🌿
• Meaningful inclusion of grassroots voices, particularly women and migrant communities, in policy processes 🗣️

The consultation also underscored the urgency of shifting from voluntary commitments to more binding, accountable, and time-bound actions within global migration governance frameworks.

The outcomes of this consultation will contribute to Nepal’s broader engagement at the IMRF 2026, ensuring that civil society voices remain central in shaping global migration discourse 🌐.

📸 Glimpses from the event are shared below.
🙏 Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

Diaspora2030 National Network for Safe Migration