GIZ Nepal

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

05/05/2026

22/04/2026

ILO Nepal, with support from GIZ MEG Nepal, brought together stakeholders from government, workers’ and employers’ organizations, civil society, research institutions, and development partners to review findings from two new ILO Nepal- and GIZ Nepal-supported studies aimed at strengthening protection for Nepali migrant workers. 🤝

The studies focus on:
• The situation of migrant care and domestic workers
• Social protection systems in Nepal and key destination countries 🛡️🌍

20/04/2026

16 years, 60 seconds. 📽️
A tribute to the communities 🤝, the technicians, and the innovators who redefined what was possible for rural energy ⚡ in Nepal 🇳🇵.
A look back at the world we built together 🌍✨.

17/04/2026

🔌 It was never just about the wires; it was about the opportunities that grew when the power stayed on. We’re reminiscing on the local innovators who took that energy to build something meaningful. 🏭✨



CC: NACEUN

16/04/2026

🏥🎉Health Insurance Board marked 10 years

On 08 April 2026, the Health Insurance Board marked 10 years of Nepal’s national health insurance program, a key step toward Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

What began as a pilot in Kailali district has now expanded nationwide across all 77 districts, providing financial protection and improving access to health services for millions of Nepalis. 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️📈

Over the past decade, this progress has been shaped by strong institutions and long-term partnerships. 🤝 The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) has supported efforts to strengthen policy, governance, service delivery, and digital systems helping build a more efficient and inclusive health insurance system. From strengthening capacities📚 to promoting evidence-based and inclusive approaches, the partnership has helped extend coverage🔗 and improve access for marginalized communities.

The focus is now on sustainability🌱, stronger governance, smarter purchasing, and digital transformation making the system more resilient for the future.✨

As a long-term partner, GIZ Nepal remains committed to working with national institutions to turn evidence, experience, and innovation into practical reforms that strengthen Nepal’s health insurance system.🇳🇵

08/04/2026

🏔️ Our work in Nepal’s most remote corners was always a team effort. We reflect on the years spent collaborating with local communities to ensure that even the furthest valleys could lead their own energy future. 🔦✨



Alternative Energy Promotion Centre

07/04/2026

As Himalayan glaciers retreat at an accelerating pace, science, lived experience, and visual storytelling come together to ask what this means for mountain communities and the region’s future.

At the opening of 'Tsunami en Himalaya' at Alliance Française, Kathmandu, Nepal, ICIMOD experts Sudan Bikash Maharjan and Mohd Farooq Azam will ground the discussion in findings from Glacier Outlook 2026 and new analysis of glacier change across the HKH (1990–2020). ICIMOD experts will be in conversation with photographer Matthieu Alexandre, author Marjolaine Edouard, and Phurba Tensing Sherpa, a witness from Nepal’s Rolwaling Valley.

📆 Tuesday, 7 April | 5:30 pm
📍 Alliance Française Auditorium, Kathmandu
🎫 Free entry

02/04/2026

🚀 The fourth edition of is here, and applications are open!

Are you a woman professional in cybersecurity 🔐 ready to accelerate your career, sharpen your expertise and expand your international network? is a five-month programme, blending online live sessions with self-paced courses, immersive in-person regional trainings, personalised mentorship, and inspirational webinars. Apply now to join the 2026 cohort.✨

Choose from four specialised tracks: Policy & Diplomacy, Incident Response, Criminal Justice, and Cyber & AI. Beyond technical excellence, the programme combines advanced skills development, close guidance from senior experts, high-level keynotes, and a strong cross-regional community — empowering you to lead, shape policy, and strengthen cyber resilience worldwide. 🌍

👉Find more info and apply here by 19 April: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Cybersecurity/Pages/Skills-Development/hct-04/index.aspx

The initiative is funded by the Auswärtiges Amt (Federal Foreign Office) Germany and the European Union (EU), with contributions from the Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Republic of Italy). The programme is co-implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), in partnership with the Global Programme on Cybercrime of the UNODC - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Latin America and Caribbean Cyber Competence Centre (LAC4).
&AI

01/04/2026

A journey of 16 years 🛤️⏳🎉

Since 2009, Energising Development Nepal worked with , #
NACEUN and development partners to bring sustainable energy.

As we look back, we celebrate the partnerships that turned a vision of "Energy for All" into a reality. A chapter has closed, but the lights stay on. 🕯️➡️💡



Alternative Energy Promotion Centre | NACEUN
Practical Action | Federation of Woman Entrepreneurs' Associations of Nepal | SNV