EU’s main approach to sustainable housing is promoting green practices/products within the building 
construction sectors SCs. EU Switch Asia program financed research conducted in Nepal, 2015, to 
understand the organization of SCs, identify factors/barriers affecting SCM and existing relationships, the 
reasons to adopt green concepts/approaches and recommend support for SMEs to strengthen the sector’s 
management and sustainability. 109 companies, non-probabilistic snowball sampling and semi-closed 
questionnaires used in the survey. Conclusions: Companies create SCs to increase customer satisfaction, 
maintain long-term sales and retain clients. Size of company influences SCs organisation, SCM and 
using/producing green products/services; majority of participants had a person in the company to manage 
SC’s and had very good knowledge of SC, SCM and greening issues. SMEs need support with: 
information/communication technology, promotion and improvement/development of green 
products/services. Government should: increases awareness of green building products/services; develop 
financial green incentives and simplify administrative procedures to buy solar products.

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