non-government organisations (NGO)
This presentation looks at why organizations like CARE are increasingly concerned about climate change and how development-oriented NGOs can adapt their programming in response. “Climate” typically refers to weather conditions averaged across 30 years (a period recommended by the World Meteorological Organization). Dissimilarities are always found when two 30-year periods are...
This flyer describes the work of The Mountain Institute in Nepal.
This publication, intended as a preparatory document for the World Ecotourism Summit in Quebec, 2002, reviews the current status and trends in ecotourism globally, the challenges ahead and the lessons learned in over 15 years of ecotourism development involving a broad range of stakeholders. Written by Megan Wood, the director of the International Ecotourism Society, it incorporates comments...
CONDESAN (Consortium for the Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion) is a 10-year-old group of more than 70 organisations — national and international, public and private, and including universities, Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research (CGIAR) centres, development NGOs, research institutions, government agencies, municipalities and producer associations. A key...
The Consortium for Sustainable Development of the Andean Eco-region (CONDESAN) is an association of public and private sector partners with a common focus, who take advantage of synergies to carry out and facilitate concerted action in research, training, development, and policy initiatives. Such action is designed to coordinate sustainable socioeconomic advances that promote the equity and...
In many developing countries, literacy has been seen as the key to 'women's development' resulting in a proliferation of women's literacy programmes run by both Governments and Non Governmental Organisations. Nepal is one such example of a country where literacy programmes have been used extensively as an entry point for involving women in development activities. The author's experience of...
The Kangchenjunga landscape in the trans-boundary region of Nepal, Bhutan, and India has rich forest resources offering a wide range of ecosystem services to local people and habitats for many rare plant and animal species. Despite conservation efforts in several fragmented protected areas in the past, forest ecosystems and their multiple functions have been affected by over-extraction of...
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