LEADERS Nepal (Society for Legal and Environmental Analysis and Development Research) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to address the problems related to basic human rights, livelihood,nature and natural resources, environment and health in Nepal. It was established in 1990. It works in partnership with Universities, INGOs (International Non Governmental Organizations) and NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations). Its involvement range from conducting: research, training, workshops, seminars and mass awareness campaign.It is providing air quality and occupational exposure monitoring survives to concern stakeholders with latest equipment in proper price.

There are five major focus areas that we are engaged in:

Human Rights and livelihood

LEADERS Nepal is working in the field of human rights and livelihood issues since its establishment. The basic objectives of this program are: to generate awareness on human rights and livelihood issues; identify the victims of decade long conflict in Nepal, access their level of sufferings…

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Environment

The focuses of environment programs are to develop concern and awareness about the major environmental problems in Nepal, and work collectively towards its solutions. Leaders Nepal is working in three thematic areas under the environment program.

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Water and Sanitation

LEADERS Nepal is working towards clean drinking water, sanitation and hand washing promotion. To ensure citizens rights to clean and safe drinking water, since 2002, it is engaged in arsenic testing in tube wells, dissemination of test results, distribution of bio-sand filters,…

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Alternative Technologies, Renewable and Household Energy and Climate Change

Nepal’s climate records show that temperature has increased dramatically in the upland regions. Rising of average temperatures in the higher elevation have already caused a retreat of glaciers in the Himalayas. Although Nepal’s share of green house gases…

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Local Risk, Response and Resilience Planning

Nepal is facing a multiple challenges: sustainable development; human security; climate change and local environmental degradation; population ageing, growth, migration and displacement; political and economic instabilities; obesity; increasing…

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INSLAR Team Visit at the Blood Lead Level Testing Centre Established by LEADERS Nepal

at Siddhi Memorial Hospital-Bhaktapur 28 April 2014 Kathmandu/Bhaktapur, Nepal Backround Society for Legal and Environmental Analysis and Development Research (LEADERS Nepal), a NGO working in the field of legal and environmental issue since 1987. LEADERS Nepal is currently working on lead in paint issue with…


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Colour of health

The new standard of 90 ppm lead in paints will ultimately help eliminate leaded paint from Nepal - RAM CHARITRA SAH Jan 19, 2015-Three consecutive studies of lead in paint carried out for the first time in Nepal by a research-based non-governmental organisation, the Center…


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Kavre BEAR (Biogas Earthquake Assistance and Recovery) Project

Re-building community by supporting biogas and biomass-based clean cookstove program in some earthquake affected areas of Kavre, Nepal Installation of biogas and biomass-based clean cookstoves will help lower the level of household air pollution (HAP), and incidence of several diseases associated with HAP. 4 m3…


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Lead level alarmingly high among children

KATHMANDU, Nepal– Do your children always live in the house where inverter battery is placed? If so, you should place the battery far from the presence or access of the kids who are always fond of moving near the light. Now it is a high…


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Workshop on lead content in paints

Aug 23, 2012-In an attempt to raise awareness on the lead content of imported paints and its negative impact on public health, an NGO is organising a one-day workshop in the Capital on August 29. LEADERs Nepal, an NGO working in the field of human…


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Kerosene raises pneumonia risk among kids, says study

KATHMANDU, APR 10 - The use of kerosene, sometimes considered a ‘modern’ and ‘clean’ household fuel for cooking purposes, is an increasing risk factor for pneumonia and other Acute Lower Respiratory Infection among children aged below five years, a new study suggests. The findings of…


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Kitchen smoke hazardous for women, children

KATHMANDU, May 8: Rina Gwachha, 29, a resident of Golmadi in Bhaktapur district, has not had a sound sleep ever since she gave birth to her second daughter 10 months ago. Rina goes to bed late in the night only after putting her baby to sleep…


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Energy revolution

By DHIRAJ POKHREL FEB 05 - A recent decision to install a 40MW diesel thermal plant to minimise loadshedding shows a complete lack of vision by the government. The most surprising thing about this decision is that it came just a day after the conclusion…


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Govt yet to ban paints laced with lead

PRATIBHA RAWAL Kathmandu, March 20: Two years ago, Indrajeet Mandan, 49, who worked as a painter, suddenly passed out while painting the walls of a house at Bouddha, Kathmandu. His friends immediately rushed him to the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH). The doctors at the hospital…


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More people take to morning walk to beat heart ailments

By PRATIBHA RAWAL KATHMANDU, March 27:Four years ago, Parbati Prajapati, 44, a resident of Kalopul in Kathmandu, felt pain in her chest. She went to a nearby clinic for check-up and the report showed a very high level of cholesterol in her blood. Already a…


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