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Mission
Strive for sustainable, self-sufficient and a just society at minimum possible
pain.
Objectives
Help people to increase production and productivity of land while promoting
multipurpose crops for cash from marginal lands.
Help people to gain confidence and enhance awareness about their relationship
between the society and nature and between an individual and society.
Geographical Area of Operation
Remote hills of central and far western Nepal, Eastern Siwalik Hills
Area of Thrust
People: Oppressed section of the community: small indigenous and occupational
groups living in marginal areas
Sector: Means of Livelihood Support - techniques, access and control; social
transformation
Approach
Rights-based, holistic. focused on local material and non-material resources, it
is a reflective and learning organisation staffed with multidisciplinary and
multiethnic team.
Key Features
Relating the issues at grassroots and policies
Conducting land-based activities in the marginal hills
Combining livelihood and awareness activities
Undertaking economic and ecological activities in complimentarity
Addressing marginalisation at physical and mental levels
Major Activities
Agro-forestry
Non-wood Forest Products
Reflective Adult Education
Reproductive Health
Community Organisation
Advocacy
Major Programmes: SEACOW, SLP, FRP
School of Ecology, Agriculture and Community Works (SEACOW) is the first
undertaking of CAED. It is operational since 1992 in the upper catchment of
Lothar watershed - narrow valley called Kandrang in the juncture of Makwanpur,
Dhading and Chitwan Districts. Later, it extended part of its activities to
other four adjoining VDCs of Chitwan and one VDC in Makwanpur district. Here, it
is in the overlapping phase of handing over the work to the local formal Chepang
groups while expanding the activities to surrounding areas inhabitated by the
Chepang community. | More |
Sustainable Livelihood Programme (SLP) is the second undertaking of CAED.
Building on the experience of SEACOW, it has been working in the parts of the
Southern VDCs of Achham for three years. It has been able to establish itself as
an institution that with the concern for Dalits and women. |
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Rights-based Community Forestry Programme (FRP), the third undertaking, seeks to
establish access to the forest resources as the rights of the people as
stipulated in the Community Forestry Provisions of the Government while
asserting that it is people's responsibility to protect them. With the financial
assistance of Churia Forest Development Project (ChFDP) of GTZ, it started
working in the ChFDP's project area since January 2001. It supports local NGOs
to equip community forest user groups (CFUGs) with necessary social attitude,
legal information and technical skills in order to strengthen the community
forestry so that the community can reap the harvest equitably while taking
charge of the protection of forests for sustainable use. |
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Funds
Annual budget at the end of 2001 amounts about 5 million Nepali Rupees (65
thousand US$). Audited Financial Details are published at the end of every
Nepali Financial Year (Mid-July). Primarily donors are the INGOs working in
Nepal and two solidarity groups in Belgium and the Netherlands -EcoNepal vzw and
Ecoschool Nepal Stichting
Legal status
It is registered as a public institution under the Institutions and Unions
Registration Act of Nepal, with the District Administrative Office in Kathmandu
(Register #322/048-049). It is affiliated with Social Welfare Council.
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