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HIMSHIKHARASocio-Cultural Society

Programme pillar

Culture, Environment & Dialogue

Local knowledge, waste and difficult public questions are handled openly, with communities in the room.

Some problems do not respond to delivery alone. This pillar holds the work of preserving cultural practice, dealing with waste at ward level, and putting uncomfortable subjects into recorded public conversation: gendered violence, mental health, menstrual dignity.

How this pillar is run

  • Dialogue is recorded and published so it outlives the room it happened in.
  • Environmental work starts at ward level, where waste decisions are actually made.
  • Academic and community voices are put on the same platform.
Five people seated around a low table with microphones during a recorded discussion, an organisation banner behind them
A recorded discussion from the Insights & Dialogue series.

Reported figures

Gendered violence roundtable
2024
Ward 3 waste-management discussion
2025

Activities

What runs under this pillar

  • Cultural preservation

    Work to record and sustain local cultural practice.

  • Waste management and composting

    Waste-management work and compost workshops, including a Ward 3 waste-management discussion in 2025.

  • Academic roundtables

    Including a roundtable on gendered violence held in 2024.

  • Podcasts and documentaries

    Recorded conversations on waste, mental health, feminism, menstrual dignity and women's resilience.

From this programme

Photographs from the work

  • A speaker greeted with flowers in front of a lecture screen and a row of international flags
    Welcoming a speaker at an academic session.
  • Four people bent over rows of vegetables, weeding and tending a terraced field
    Tending a community vegetable plot during environment and composting work.

Projects

Projects in Culture, Environment & Dialogue

  • Five people seated around a low table with microphones during a recorded discussion, an organisation banner behind them

    Ongoing · Kathmandu Valley and online

    Insights & Dialogue series

    Roundtables, podcasts and documentaries putting waste, mental health, feminism and menstrual dignity into recorded public conversation.

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Stories

Reporting from this pillar

  • Five people seated around a low table with microphones during a recorded discussion, an organisation banner behind them

    Culture, Environment & Dialogue

    Putting hard subjects on the record

    A gendered-violence roundtable in 2024, a ward waste discussion in 2025, and a run of podcasts. This is the work of not letting a conversation end with the room.

    · Kathmandu Valley

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Source for this programme: https://himshikharanepal.org.np/homepage/what-we-do/insights-dialogue-series/