| Author | Basnyat, Muna |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.UE-98-6 |
| Subject(s) | Refuse and refuse disposal--Nepal--Kathmandu
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| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science. School of Environment, Resources and Development |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | Most often local governments are held responsible for providing daily services like solid
waste management and are blamed for any kind of failures and inadequacies that prevail.
Due to lack of resources and commitment from their part solid waste most often emanates
as a major environmental problem in urban areas. Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC)
and Lalitpur Sub Metropolitan (LSM) too have been victims of solid waste management
problem in recent years, with a trend of generating more volume and complicated waste
stream in the coming years. Acknowledging the inadequacies of the local government,
informal sector, private sector and NGOs have emerged to supplement their activities.
The focus of this study is to analyze the relevance of NGOs in urban solid waste
management in the present scenario, with an objective to envisage their role and
functions in providing supplementary service to the metropolitan/sub metropolitan. The
further focus of this study is on women NGOs, to assess how they operate and are
perceived by the community as well as the local government. Out of three roles of
women, productive, reproductive and community managing, the latter role is not
acknowledged adequately and most often thought as an extension of the reproductive
role. Thus, this study aims to find out the scope of this role being acknowledged in filling
up the voids that the local government has in providing its services. Assessing one
Women NGO externally and internally has explored the possibilities of its replication in
other areas. Based on this result, strategies have been formulated on how their roles
should be highlighted and what functions are they expected to play in addressing the
issue of solid waste management in the future. Moreover, based on the critique of gender
analysis this study has analyzed the additional role that Women NGOs are expected to
play in attaining gender equity in relation to men and women, further in relation to
cultural and social structure within the periphery of 'waste management'. |
| Year | 1999 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development |
| Department | Department of Energy and Climate Change (Former title: Department of Energy, Environment, and Climate Change (DEECC)) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Urban Environmental and Management (UE) |
| Chairperson(s) | Zimmermann, Willi; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Nurul Amin, A.T.M.;Kelkar, Govind; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | RUDO/USAID;CUC/CIDA |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1999 |