Hisila Manandhar
Hisila is an expert urban planner with more than a decade of experience in architecture and landscape planning. Her work experience includes community-based planning, risk-sensitive land use planning, and disaster risk management.
As an urban planner, Hisila focuses on the preparation of municipal risk and inclusion-sensitive land use plans; the development of GRID (green, resilient, and inclusive urban design) infrastructure; and support for the preparation and implementation of different urban development policies for the U.K. Aid-funded Sudridh–Nepal Urban Resilience Programme.
Hisila studied urban and regional planning at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and worked as a planning consultant for the Hawaii Alliance for Community Based Economic Development, focusing on community planning and community-based economic development. She completed her master's degree in landscape project theories and approaches from the École Nationale Supérieure du Paysage in Versailles, France. Hisila apprenticed at Péri Municipality in Corsica Island for the preparation of Municipal Landscape Charter.
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M.U.R.P., University of Hawaii at Manoa
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M.Sc, Theories and Approaches in Project of Landscape, École Nationale Supérieure du Paysage, Versailles, France
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B.S., Architecture, Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Lalitpur, Nepal
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“Formulating Disaster Risk Management Plans by ITC2015 Participants: Thapathali - TekuDobhanGhat Area, Kathmandu, Nepal,” Proceedings of UNESCO Chair Programme on Cultural Heritage and Risk Management, International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage, Ritsumeikan University, 2016.
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“Steps to the Heavenly Abode: Ghats of Kathmandu,” Business Architecture, 2011.
