Articles Published in Society of Engineers for Rural Development, Nepal (SERDEN)

SERDEN 2018. Haapala, J.
How to cope with social embeddedness in water project implementation

SERDEN 2018. Haapala, J. & Shah R.
Installation of Improved Cooking Stoves significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions: Case RVWRMP

SERDEN 2018. Yadav, D.K.
Cooperatives became a mileage of UCs in sustainable operation of water services.

SERDEN 2018. Tirwa, R.
Fighting the discriminating chaupadi practice with music.

SERDEN 2018. Bhatta, M.
Developing Women as Decision-Makers (In Nepali)

SERDEN 2018. Shrestha, N. & Joshi, K.
Initiating Water Quality Ensuring Mechanism of RVWRMP, Bajhang

SERDEN 2018. Joshi K.
Nothing is impossible if done, a success story on total sanitation, Bajhang.

SERDEN 2018. Subedi, S.
On the new Labour Act in Nepal. (In Nepali)

SERDEN 2016, Parikshit Shrestha:

Coping with Climate Uncertainty in Rural Water Supply Systems: RVWRMP Experiences

SERDEN 2016, Roshan Shah:            Inclusive and Gender-Balanced Community Participation as an Essential Element for the Successful Implementation of Micro-hydro Power Projects

SERDEN 2016, Sushil Subedi, Pallab Nepal:

Water Use Master Plan: A Gateway to Integrated Water Resource Management in Small-scale Watershed Area

SERDEN 2015, Deo Krishna Yadav:

A Case Study: Contribution of Cooperative to

Sustain Water Services Schemes

SERDEN 2014, Parikshit Shrestha:

Structural Disinfection through Shock Chlorination in Rural Water Supply Schemes for Safe Water

SERDEN 2013, Raju Shrestha:

RVWRMP is Fulfilling the Multiple Thirst of Rural People

Reseach Publications and Reports

White, P. & Haapala, J. 2019. Technical advisors as brokers: translating gender equality and human rights policies and values into practice in the water sector in Nepal’, European Journal of Development Research Vol. 31, Iss. 3,  (Jul 2019): 643-662. DOI:10.1057/s41287-018-0173-0.

White, P. & Haapala, J. 2018. Water Security and Social Inclusion: Local Governance within the Newly Established Rural Municipalities in Nepal. New Angle - Nepal Journal of Public Policy and Social Science. 5(1):1-29.

Haapala, J. and White, P. 2018. Development through bricoleurs: Portraying local personnel’s role in implementation of water resources development in rural Nepal. Water Alternatives 11(3): 979-998.

Haapala, J. 2018. Governing water for local development-Solutions to implementation challenges in remote, rural Nepal. (Academic Disseration.) Aalto University.

Haapala, J. and Keskinen, M., 2018. Influence of different discourses on the outcomes of development policies and projects: Insights from water project implementation in Nepal. Environmental Policy and Governance. 

Haapala, J., Rautanen, S.L., White, P., Keskinen, M. and Varis, O., 2016. Facilitating bricolage through more organic institutional designs? The case of water users’ associations in rural Nepal. International Journal of the Commons, 10(2).

Haapala, J. & White, P. 2015. Why do some behaviours change more easily than others? Water-use behaviour interventions in rural Nepal. Waterlines.

Pamela White, Sunita Sharma, Sunil Kumar Das:

Culture Clash: Menstruation taboos and ODF in Nepal

Water Alternatives 2014, S-L. Rautanen,  B. van Koppen & N. Wagle:

Community-Driven Multiple Use Water Services: Lessons Learned by the Rural Village Water Resources Management Project in Nepal

Disability Partnership, Next Print 2017, 

Developmen for All: Experiences on disability mainstreaming in the development sector: Chapter 10, White Pamela: Practicing Inclusive WASH in Nepal

Garrido, Maria Teresa, by the United Nations-mandated University for Peace 2017:

Human Rights and Technology. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”

RWSSP-WN II & RVWRMP contribution by Pamela White, Sanna-Leena Rautanen & Pallab Raj Nepal

Internal Studies and Surveys

Improved Cooking Stoves (ICS) Impact Study 2/2020.

Improved Water Mills Impact Survey 7/2019.

Sea Buckthorn Feasibility Study Report (Api Himal) 2019

Sea Buckthorn Mission presentation (Api Himal) 11/2018

Dadeldhura NTFP and Chiuri value chain consultancy presentation. April 2019

Attariya whole sale market study. April 2019

School WASH 'baseline' status study in core RMs 1/2019

Diploma Engineers Association, 2017: Article Rural WASH Policy and Practice in the Context of Water Resource Management in "Water Resource Management in the Context of Gorkha Earthqake-2015" 

Ram Krishna Sapkota & Pallab Raj Nepal