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As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, ANSAB is concerned about the danger it poses in Nepal, particularly, the impacts on the rural poor communities it serves. As the virus has spread to high-density areas, working people neighborhoods, and other centers of vulnerability and poverty, we have now faced health,…

ANSAB and Jiri Municipality jointly organized a PPCA (Public-Private-Community-Alliance for Sustainable Natural Products-based Enterprises and Local Economic Development) planning meeting in Jiri, Dolakha on February 5, 2020. Participants of the meeting included over 30 individuals including Mayor and Chief Administrative Officer of Jiri Municipality, Ward Chairpersons, ANSAB’s Executive…

The National Forest Stewardship Standard (NFSS) for Nepal has been launched by the FSC. The Standard has been developed by a chamber-balanced Standards Development Group coordinated by ANSAB using multi-stakeholder process, including two public consultations. The Standard was field tested in different forests in two different geographical regions.…

Through a series of regional level meeting, workshop and regional dialogue, REDD+ stakeholders agree on Asia Pacific level key lessons learned, best practices and next steps for the full and effective participation of local communities, civil society organizations, indigenous people in REDD+ process. In 2019, ANSAB, as the…

ANSAB and NEPCon aim to establish a new partnership leveraging on the long-term expertise working with sustainable forest management and ecosystem services certification, combined with local expertise and extensive experience of working with forest dependent communities in Nepal. ANSAB and NEPCon, with funding support from CISU – Civil…

Thursday, 26 December 2019: ANSAB and NEPCon aim to establish a new partnership leveraging on the long-term expertise working with sustainable forest management and ecosystem services certification, combined with local expertise and excessive experience of working with forest dependent communities in Nepal. ANSAB and NEPCon, with funding support…

The global dialogue of the indigenous peoples, local communities and southern civil society organizations was organized by FCPF in Washington DC from November 7 to 9, 2019. During the dialogue, Dr. Bhishma Subedi, ANSAB’s Executive Director, presented the impacts on national REDD+ readiness process of the FCPF capacity…

Join us to learn how to assess sustainable wild collection according to the FairWild Standard. This training course will equip participants with the tools, knowledge and skills needed to verify sustainable wild collection practices against the FairWild Standard, an internationally recognised framework for the sustainable harvest and fair…

FCPF, Tebtebba and ANSAB organized a regional dialogue for forest-dependent indigenous peoples (IPs), other forest dwellers and southern civil society organizations (CSOs) in Asia-Pacific in Bangkok, Thailand from September 16-20, 2019. A total of 63 representatives, 32 males and 31 females, of indigenous people organizations and networks, CSOs,…

The Asia Pacific level REDD+ Regional Workshop was organized by ANSAB from August 5 to 7, 2019 in Kathmandu as part of the FCPF-Capacity Building on REDD+ for Civil Society Organizations and Local Communities in East Pacific and the Pacific Region Project. The objective of the workshop was…

ANSAB’s ecosystem based commercial agriculture (ECA) initiative has received the first prize of the Adaptation at Scale Karyanwayan (Implementation) Prize in the category of adaptation projects from the international/national level organizations. In an award ceremony held on May 23, 2019 in Kathmandu, the Honorable Minister for Forests and…

ANSAB, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR) are organizing an event: Community forestry Enterprises for Livelihoods: The Way Forward at the Asia Pacific Forestry Week in Beijing, China. The event will take place on Monday, November 7, 13:30 – 18:00 at…