Partners

Asian Trekking (P) Limited

Asian Trekking is the one of the most established and reputed trekking and mountaineering expeditions organizer in the Himalayan region. Operating in its 25th year, Asian Trekking organizes Treks and Mountaineering Expeditions throughout Himalayas. Specializing in outfitting Treks and expeditions, Asian Trekking is recognized for its pioneering and innovative work. Today, Asian Trekking is as dedicated to providing quality service with a passion as it was 25 years ago.

Asian Trekking has organized over 1400 expeditions to the high mountains of Nepal and innumerable treks and tours in the entire South Asian region. Currently Asian Trekking's activities are prominent in Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim and Ladakh. Our efforts have been recognized by the China-Tibet Mountaineering Association for whom Asian Trekking is the official General Sales Agent in Nepal. Asian Trekking is also actively involved in developing rural communities through tourism and environmentally friendly practices such as using wind and solar power.

Ang Tshering Sherpa, the founding chairman of Asian Trekking is also the president elect of the Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA), and the Union of Asian Alpinist Association (UAAA). He also serves as the honorary vice president of the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (UIAA) and is the Honorary Council of Belgium to Nepal.

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)

“The mountain population of the greater Himalayas enjoys improved well-being in a sustainable global environment.”

ICIMOD is a centre where information and knowledge are exchanged and where innovation, technology transfer, and effective communications are used to empower stakeholders in the member countries. Within this mission, ICIMOD wants to be an open-house of knowledge sharing for initiatives both from the region and from the world; it is a regional platform, where policymakers, experts, planners, and practitioners can meet and exchange ideas and perspectives. ICIMOD wants to facilitate knowledge transfer across the region and from providers to users. ICIMOD sees knowledge-sharing initiatives as a source of inspiration, innovation, and questioning, and as an opportunity to customise international knowledge to tailor it to the needs of the region and to help in the design of future strategies.

ICIMOD focuses particularly on the adaptation of the HKH region and its mountain population to the changes brought about by globalisation – in the form of growth, migration and accelerated communication – and climate change, for example changing biodiversity, changing precipitation patterns and higher frequency and intensity of natural hazards. The holistic approach favours interdisciplinary problem analysis, design, implementation, and monitoring of social as well as technical aspects; which includes the crosscutting criteria of policy, governance, equity, and gender and mainstreaming information and knowledge management principles.

The ICIMOD Strategic Framework has identified three Strategic Programmes - Integrated Water and Hazards Management (IWHM), Environmental Change and Ecosystems Services (ECES), Sustainable Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction (SLPR) which are interdependent and interlinked. These three thrusts are supported by information and knowledge management facilitating knowledge transfer across the region and from providers to users.

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

To provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the United Nations system’s designated entity for addressing environmental issues at the global and regional level. Its mandate is to coordinate the development of environmental policy consensus by keeping the global environment under review and bringing emerging issues to the attention of governments and the international community for action. The mandate and objectives of UNEP emanate from: the UN General Assembly resolution 2997 (XXVII) of 15 December 1972; Agenda 21, adopted at the UN Conference on Environment and Development (the Earth Summit) in 1992; the Nairobi Declaration on the Role and Mandate of UNEP, adopted by the UNEP Governing Council in 1997; the Malmö Ministerial Declaration and the UN Millennium Declaration, adopted in 2000; and recommendations related to international environmental governance approved by the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development and the 2005

Research Partners

Keio University

Producing the Next Generation of World Leaders

In 2008 Keio University celebrates its sesquicentennial (150th) anniversary. Keio is Japan's very first private institution of higher learning, dating back to the formation of a school for Dutch studies in 1858 in Edo (now Tokyo) by founder Yukichi Fukuzawa.

In an age when overseas travel was an enormous hardship, Keio founder Yukichi Fukuzawa visited the United States and Europe on three occasions. What he gleaned from his trips abroad was a belief that Japan needed to adopt elements of the Western educational system in order for the nation to progress into the modern era. Keio was formed, thereby, on the notion that an international perspective is essential.

The Mountain Institute

The Mountain Institute's mission is to advance mountain cultures and preserve mountain environments. Founded in 1972, The Mountain Institute is based in Washington, DC, and has offices and community-based programs in the Andean, Appalachian and Himalayan mountain ranges, partnering with local people to strengthen their communities and to conserve their natural resources and cultural heritage.

The Mountain Institute objectives include: conserving high priority mountain eco-systems; increasing environmentally and culturally sustainable livelihoods for mountain communities and promoting support for mountain cultures and issues through advocacy, education and outreach.

Alpine Conservation Partnership

The Alpine Conservation Partnership was founded by the American Alpine Club (AAC) and the Mountain Institute (TMI) in 2006. The long-term goal of the partnership is to protect and restore the World’s Alpine Ecosystems. Through good science; long-term, impact-oriented field programs; and the active participation of local people, NGOs, and governments, this project seek to build a legacy that will be unmatched in the history of conservation projects initiated by climbers.

The project represents one of the most enduring legacies that both organizations can leave behind for future generations of climbers, explorers, trekkers, scientists, and millions of people living in the lowlands.

Nepal Research and Education Network (NREN)

Nepal Research and Education Network (NREN)has been established as a facilitator to support for advanced research and education network through the means of Information and Communication Technology and as a knowledge center to support good ICT initiatives and researcher in the country. This entity has been established as a non-profit network under the Prime College, affiliated to Tribhuvan National University, collaboration with various organizations.

RESTOP

When nature calls you have to answer, but sometimes there are no facilities available.

That's when you need Restop®

RESTOP products contain the odor as well as the waste. Here's how the products work. Using a scientifically formulated blend of polymers and enzymes in specially designed plastic bags, human waste is first contained and then converted into environmentally friendly waste. The polymers gel upon contact with liquid, safely containing the waste, and the enzymes begin to consume the waste products. When there is nothing left for the enzymes to feed on, they consume themselves, leaving basic salts and water. The result is an environmentally friendly and sanitary bag that can be disposed of in any trash container.

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The Alpine Conservation Partnership was founded by the American Alpine Club (AAC) and the Mountain Institute (TMI) in 2006. The long-term goal of the partnership is to protect and restore the World’s Alpine Ecosystems. Through good science; long-term, impact-oriented field programs; and the active participation of local people, NGOs, and governments, this project seek to build a legacy that will be unmatched in the history of conservation projects initiated by climbers.

The project represents one of the most enduring legacies that both organizations can leave behind for future generations of climbers, explorers, trekkers, scientists, and millions of people living in the lowlands.

American Alpine Club

We protect the places we climb, advocate for American climbers around the world, preserve climbing’s history and chronicle climbing achievement.

The American Alpine Club’s ongoing commitment to inspiring and supporting climbers dates back to 1902, when the country’s leading climbers and conservationists banded together to form the Club. The AAC unites climbers to advance the climbing way of life.

The AAC publishes the definitive annual record of the world’s most significant climbs, the American Alpine Journal, and operates the Western Hemisphere’s largest mountaineering library and museum. Building on over a century of landmark conservation achievements, the AAC recently co-founded the Alpine Conservation Partnership to protect high and wild places worldwide. The AAC runs the Grand Teton Climbers’ Ranch, provides global rescue services, stages events, plays a worldwide advocacy role as the US representative to the UIAA, and offers more grants to fund climbing expeditions than any other US organization

Co-operation Partners

Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation (MOCTCA)

Tourism reaches into the varied aspects of Nepalese life and its benefits are encompassed by diverse sectors directly and indirectly. It generates employment opportunities and helps in the promotion and conservation of the art and culture. The tourism industry is one of the foreign currency earners in the country and thus makes a significant contribution to the economy. Government of Nepal has been actively promoting tourism in Nepal and has always encouraged the private sector for their involvement and participation. The Ministry of Culture, Tourism & Civil Aviation (MOCTCA) gives equal importance to conservation of natural, cultural and human resources.

Nepal Tourism Board

Nepal Tourism Board is a national organization established in 1998 by an act of parliament in the form of partnership between Government of Nepal, and private sector tourism industries of Nepal to develop and market Nepal as an attractive tourist destination. The Board provides platform for vision-drawn leadership for Nepal's tourism section by integrating government commitment with the dynamism of private sector tourism industries.

Department of National Park and Wildlife Conservation

Nepal is endowed with rich and varied biodiversity.Altitudinal variances in short distance give Nepal's biogeography variety that range from lush moist forests and sparse alpine deserts to luxurious grasslands in lowland Terai. The mountainous country also shelters some of the world's most rare animals.Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) National Park and Royal Chitwan National Park with typical natural, cultural and landsc`haracteristics were listed as World Heritage sites in 1974 and 1984, respectively.

Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ)

Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) is a voluntary, non-profit making and non-governmental organization founded as far back as in 1986. It functions as guided along by its democratically elected body which comprises professional journalists from print and electronic media and who have special interest in environment and development issues.

NEFEJ as it is popularly known in the fields of environment and mass communication, the organization has become synonymous with credibility, seriousness, commitment and democracy. This has gone a long way in attracting enumerable admirers. NEFEJ is a membership organization. Nepalese journalists working in print media, radio or TV are awarded full membership. Apart from it, associate membership is awarded to just about any individual who has picked up desired expertise in environmental conservation. Much in line with the founding principles, NEFEJ has adopted a multi-media approach in its functioning. In fact, it has all along tried and become successful in sensitizing journalists, politicians, policy-makers, opinion makers as well as the member of the general public on issues ranging from environmental to socio-economic development.

Tribhuvan University

Tribhuvan University, founded in 1959, is the first university and the pioneer institute of higher education in Nepal. It is named after the late King Tribhuvan. It was only after its establishment that higher education within the country was available to the common Nepali people. The infrastructure of Tribhuvan University was built at Kirtipur where its foundation stone was laid in 1958. Five kilometers to the south-west of the capital, the university is situated at Kirtipur.

Along with its 48 years long journey, the state-owned university has expanded its programs in different disciplines. There are five technical institutes and four non-technical faculties, which offer 300 courses in certificate, 1079 courses in bachelor and 1000 courses in master level. Currently, the total courses offered by the university number more than 2400.

Both technical and non-technical offer Ph.D. programs in different disciplines. TU always has been trying to offer varieties of courses as demand by the nation. Recently TU has decided to offer Biotechnology, Dietician, eMBA, Distance Learning Courses at Master Level and MA in Conflict Peace and Development. M.Phil courses have been started in faculty of Management, Humanities and Education.

Kathmandu University

Kathmandu University is an autonomous, not-for-profit, non-government, public institution dedicated to maintain high standards of academic excellence. The University is committed to develop leaders in professional areas through quality education.

The University is located in a mountainous landscape in Dhulikhel Municipality about 30 kilometers northeast of Kathmandu having round-the-year pleasant climate and Panoramic Himalayan Views.

Within a period of 13 years, it has established a track record of academic excellence. At present, the University offers various intermediate, undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate level programs in science, engineering, medicine, management, education, pharmacy, environment, music, human & natural resources, information technology and biotechnology through its six different schools: School of Science, School of Management, School of Engineering, School of Medical Sciences, School of Arts and School of Education.

Alternative Energy Promotion Centre/ Rural Energy Development Programme

The Rural Energy Development Programme (REDP) is a joint initiative of the Government of Nepal (GoN), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Bank (WB), operational in more the 300 remote rural communities in 25 districts of Nepal. The programme provides support at all levels - community, district and centre -for the enhancement of rural livelihoods through promotion of rural energy systems, particularly community managed micro hydro plant, which serves as an entry point for social, economic and environmental development to help achieve the poverty reduction, climate change mitigation and inclusive development. The Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC) under the Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology ((MoEST) is the responsible agency of the government for the programme implementation.

Centre for Rural Technology, Nepal

The Alpine Conservation Partnership was founded by the American Alpine Club (AAC) and the Mountain Institute (TMI) in 2006. The long-term goal of the partnership is to protect and restore the World’s Alpine Ecosystems. Through good science; long-term, impact-oriented field programs; and the active participation of local people, NGOs, and governments, this project seek to build a legacy that will be unmatched in the history of conservation projects initiated by climbers.

The project represents one of the most enduring legacies that both organizations can leave behind for future generations of climbers, explorers, trekkers, scientists, and millions of people living in the lowlands.

Foundation for Sustainable Technologies (FoST)

Foundation for Sustainable Technologies (FoST) is a non-profit non-governmental organization established in April 2002 under the Social Service Act 2034 of His Majesty's Government of Nepal. FoST was the brainchild of Sanu Kaji Shrestha - a retired official at the World Bank and solar energy hobbyist. FoST include a group of dedicated experts with long national and international experiences in the fields of alternative and renewable energy sources, community development, and micro-enterprise development and financing. FoST has provided sustainable technology solutions to over a thousand households in poor rural villages and is constantly researching new technologies and their applications for the region. It has conducted more than dozens of demonstrations and workshops to educate people of the importance of sustainable technologies in daily life.

Team for Nature and Wildlife (TNW)

Team for Nature and Wildlife (TNW) is a team of youths coming from various academic backgrounds like environment science, management, finance, anthropology, sociology, information technology, journalism/media and communication, theatre studies, English and Nepali literature, music, arts etc. to join hands in committing to contribute on the environment conservation with sheer dedication for sustainable development of Nepal.