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New and Affordable Building Materials Promoting Sustainability in Nepal (NABIN)

Ongoing

Mitigation

Buildings and housing

Urban development

Call 7

Nepal

Time consumed

Start: 01-Sep-18 End: 31-Aug-20

Lead Nordic partner

DanChurchAid

Country of Lead Nordic partner

Denmark

Local partner(s)

Build Up Nepal

Other partner(s)

Practical Action

NCF grant size

450,000

Total project cost

603,702

Methods

Sustainable construction solutions, Training

Country of implementation:

Nepal

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Description

The project seeks to test and demonstrate a scaled pro-poor and climate friendly business model for Compressed Stabilized Earth Bricks (CSEB) technology in the Nepalese context, strengthen a number of points along the supply chain of the sustainable construction industry. This will ultimately strengthen Nepal’s capacity to mitigate and adapt to climate change through viable rural initiatives with strong social and climate impacts.

Over 650,000 houses... The project seeks to test and demonstrate a scaled pro-poor and climate friendly business model for Compressed Stabilized Earth Bricks (CSEB) technology in the Nepalese context, strengthen a number of points along the supply chain of the sustainable construction industry. This will ultimately strengthen Nepal’s capacity to mitigate and adapt to climate change through viable rural initiatives with strong social and climate impacts.

Over 650,000 houses were destroyed by the 2015 earthquake in Nepal. Most of the damages were sustained in 14 districts across the Hilly regions, where the population is vulnerable to economic shocks and natural disasters. Additionally, living conditions has deteriorated due to temporary housing and loss of livelihood. In this context, appropriate low-cost housing is a dire need in the region, as is building sustained livelihoods. The CSEB technology is one of the vital options to rebuild damaged houses then the fired bricks and cement blocks. Replacing the prevailing building material, which is both resource-demanding and with negative environmental impacts, the CSEB technology is low-cost, locally adaptable, environmentally sustainable, earthquake resilient, easy to use and strong climatic adaptive characteristics. The business model focuses on creating a strong local business environment to rebuild infrastructure in a socially sustainable way in hard-to-reach areas.

Bringing together the three partners’ expertise in CSEB technology, rural entrepreneurship development, capacity building and mobilization, the goal is to scale this historically disaster resilient and climate friendly indigenous technology. The project expects to enhance the livelihood of affected people by:

• Establishing self-sustaining and commercially viable CESB enterprises
• Creating an enabling business environment for climate friendly construction material
• Reducing the impact of climate change through mitigation and partly, through adaptation and resilience
• Job creation and livelihood promotion in project areas and support to poor and vulnerable groups, and
• Increasing demand of disaster resilient and climate responsive construction materials, and
• Strengthening the supply chain of CSEBs through increasing the access of business development services to entrepreneurs

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Objective

Project's expected key results are:
•100 CSEB enterprises created
•1 650 direct jobs created through the establishment of CSEB enterprises
•21 million CSEB bricks produced by 100 CSEB enterprises
•20% cost savings on housing reconstruction for 3,500 households
•280 masons trained in CSEB technology construction methods
•Increased access to financial products by CSEB entrepreneurs
•Local awareness of sustainable building materials, uses and advantages
•30% increase in demand of CSEB
•16 231 tonnes of...

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Results

Milestone 2 was planned to cover part of the implementation phase of the NABIN project, with the objective to establish 30 CSEB micro-enterprises along with executing the associated project deliverables to reach the project targets. While the majority of the planned deliverables of milestone 2 were successfully achieved as scheduled, meeting the key outcome level result has been slightly delayed by various circumstances which will... Milestone 2 was planned to cover part of the implementation phase of the NABIN project, with the objective to establish 30 CSEB micro-enterprises along with executing the associated project deliverables to reach the project targets. While the majority of the planned deliverables of milestone 2 were successfully achieved as scheduled, meeting the key outcome level result has been slightly delayed by various circumstances which will be elaborated throughout this report.

During Milestone 2, the project team has organised orientation events, workshops and awareness campaigns in different project locations to illustrate the multifaceted benefits of CSEB technology to potential entrepreneurs, Local Government (LG) authorities and CSEB distribution agencies. In addition, the consortium team has set up business start-up funds to support the establishment of CSEB micro-enterprises, and lobbied for LGs to provide approval certificates as well as to integrate CSEB technology into their annual development plans. Further, the project has supported local authorities to leverage financial resources to promote climate friendly construction practices in the public sector, and organised exposure visits for community and LG stakeholders in the project locations. The project has formed district level CSEB associations and strengthened the market of local labour through mason training. In summary, the following key outcome level results have been achieved (measured against internally set milestone targets)

• 27 CSEB micro-enterprises (out of the targeted 30) have been established and are now functional.
• Approximately 815,300 CSEB’s, out of 1,837,500, have been produced.
• 274 houses, out of 306 houses, have been built using CSEB’s.
• The project has succeeded in creating 139 local employment opportunities out of 480
• 286 tonnes of CO₂, out of 3,450 tonnes, have been reduced in Milestone 2, as a result of producing approximately 815,300 CSEB’s.
• LG’s have started providing CSEB certifications and using CSEB’s in community infrastructure projects.

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