CGED works through multi-pronged and multi-dimensional collaborative partnership with national, regional and global organizations and platforms. Our existing partners are: Govt. of Nepal, Asian Development Bank, World Bank, IUCN, Green Growth Knowledge Platform (https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/), Nature for all (#NatureForAll), Paris Pledge for Action (http://www.parispledgeforaction.org/) and Partnership for Action on Green Economy (http://www.unep.org/greeneconomy/). It also forges specific partnership with the suitable ministries and the agencies of the Government of Nepal. Currently CGED/N has been working with the ministries of Forest and Environment and Urban Development in implementing the Adaptation at Scale (www.adaptationatscale.org) and watershed management component of the BRBIP (www.brbip.gov.np). Working in partnership and collaborative manner, CGED undertakes clean, green and sustainable initiatives such as commissioned studies, organization of conferences, workshops, seminars, training, community mobilization and awareness building campaigns. The major themes of CGED focus will be: natural resources management, climate change adaptation, clean energy, organic agriculture, non-timber forest products (NTFP), green infrastructure, resilient agriculture, forestry, biodiversity, ecosystem services, urban environment systems, and integrated water resources management.

MAJOR THRUST AREAS

In the, 2012 Rio+20 Outcome Document, the recently approved 17 SDGs and Paris Climate Agreement, global community have committed to transform national economic development policies and practices into low carbon development pathways, unsustainable consumption pattern towards sustainability and to limit rapidly warming climate under 2 degree Celsius rise in this century. Implementation of these major global agreements will require new knowledge strengthened capacities, and multi-pronged partnership, coordination and coherence to create synergy and Complementarities. Enhanced and holistic actions will be needed to reorient economies toward green economic development trajectories, sustainable development framework and good governance systems.

For vulnerable and poor countries these new global agenda provide an opportunity to reformulate their economic development strategy on a sustainable growth path by creating cleaner and greener foundation of utilizing synthesized and practical knowledge, multi-sectoral capacity building and emphasis on the sustainable use of natural capital and resilience building measures. South Asian countries especially Nepal have to manage their vast water resources, biodiversity and human resources more effectively utilizing relevant knowledge, appropriate technology, targeted capacity building and policy relevant research and technical backstopping. CGED-N with support from TERI and other partners plans to work as an agent of change by enabling and facilitating interactive knowledge management and their active sharing to mainstream climate change and ecosystem based solutions for which climate resilient development policies and best practices will be developed in the interested countries and entities.

HOW CGED-N WORKS?

The main thrust of the CGED-N program and projects will be to produce new, practical and integrated knowledge and good practices. The aim is to contribute to the sustainable and transformative agenda of economic, social, environmental and institutional changes by making situation specific knowledge and ecosystem-based solutions. CGED team gathers knowledge and develops tools, examples and options that can help the aim of achieving environmental sustainability, green jobs creation, stable poverty reduction and improved wellbeing. CGED-N will develop demand driven knowledge and information based and disseminate it by organizing virtual and physical platforms to share and learn knowledge and good practices with policy makers, practitioners, and development managers. The CGED-N aims to be a meaningful contributor to the new agenda of low carbon green economy and sustainable development by trying to ensure that the growth and development remains fast, inclusive, equitable and sustainable.

PARTNERSHIP STRATEGY

Global support for implementing new climate and development agenda will depend on the existence of sound policies, programs and most importantly good governance framework. CGED-N wants to develop multi-dimensional knowledge partnerships and sustainable community of practice to work on these challenges and opportunities. Being organizations that is a member of the Paris Pledge for Action (UNFCCC), NatureforAll (IUCN/CEC) and Sustainable Development Network of the UN (SDN) its partnership with regional and global partners are both strategic and programmatic. With other national and regional partners such as ICIMOD, IUCN, IDS-Nepal, SIAS, ABARI, CGED-N’s partnership is of collaborative and programmatic nature. We work together for achieving transformative changes in sustainable development and green economy development policies and programmes in Nepal and other South Asian countries. The success of new development and climate change agenda will depend on how countries reform and prepare their sustainable development and climate resilience policies, strategies, and action plans. CGED-Nepal plans to develop itself as a knowledge hub to accumulate and share more appropriate and contextual knowledge, skills, capacity, institutional arrangements and above all policy and governance reforms. CGED-N jointly with TERI plans to work on these new agenda with new development concepts and practices by developing strategic partnership with interested countries and institutions.

Partnership with TERI India

CGED-Nepal and TERI, India (www.teriin.org) have formed strategic partnership to work together. Established in 1974, TERI is headquartered in New Delhi and is the largest developing country institution working towards sustainable development and devising and implementing local as well as global solutions to critical challenges facing humanity. TERI today has various categories of staff totaling over 1200 professionals, located in various centers in India and elsewhere. Other than CGEDN, other affiliate institutes of TERI are TERINorth America and TERI-Europe. TERI also has a presence in Japan, Malaysia, Ethiopia, Kuwait and Guyana.