Kathmandu, June 22: Stakeholders have stressed that access to safe shelter should be ensured to the members from marginalized community, which they said is a constitutionally guaranteed rights.
At a national-level consultation workshop on community-led housing organized by Lumanti Support Group for Shelter, and the Ministry of Urban Development, the speakers asked all the line agencies to accelerate their roles for the implementation of right to safe shelter.
The programme organized with the motive to foster meaningful discussions witnessed the participation of policymakers, practitioners and development partners working in the area of community-led housing models.
During the programme, Secretary at the Ministry of Urban Development Gopal Prasad Sigdel said that the constitution has included the right to shelter as a fundamental right and the government was giving emphasis for shelter development in line with the urban development policy.
He shared that drafting of the Urban Development Bill is under process and said that the government was also planning to carry out a survey on housing.
Secretary Sigdel said that the government was working to amend the laws on integrated settlement.
Mayor of Kalika Municipality Binod Regmi said that the marginalized communities need employment and income generation opportunities along with housing facilities.
He also stated that residences were not properly used in some of the contexts and asked to take this aspect into consideration.
Director General of Urban Development Machakaji Maharjan and Executive Director of Lumanti Lajana Manandhar and others also spoke at the event. #nepal #shelter
