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

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Mitigation

Buildings and housing

Urban development

Call 7

Nepal

Time consumed

Start: 01-Sep-18 End: 30-Apr-21

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

• 96 CSEB micro-enterprises were established and are now functional
• 2,669 local jobs were created
• Approximately 3.6 million CSEBs were produced
• 635 masons and fried bricks makers were trained
• 2,103 houses were built using CSEB (1,443 from NABIN project and 660 from 26 enterprises established by other projects)
• 68% of CSEB entrepreneurs had access to financial services. Loan products were developed together with the Microfinance Institutions (MFI) (Mero Microfinance)...

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