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Green Foundation Nepal · Since 2012

Green Foundation Nepal

Growing a Greener Nepal

A national non-profit social entrepreneurship organisation working across Nepal to empower communities, promote sustainable livelihoods, and build a greener, more equitable future

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Empowering Communities
Protecting Forest Rights

Nepal’s community forestry system places more than a third of the country’s forests in the hands of local user groups. Since 2012, Green Foundation Nepal has worked alongside these communities to strengthen forest rights, support sustainable livelihoods, and shape policies that protect the people who care for our forests

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Climate-friendly enterprises supported

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National programmes delivered with partners

2012

Year our journey began

Working alongside partners including the Tenure Facility, FECOFUN, and RRI to advance community forest tenure, inclusive governance, and lasting policy change

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Green Foundation Nepal field team carrying out a forest inventory with community forest user group members

Who we are

Green Foundation Nepal is a non-profit social entrepreneurship organisation established in 2012, working towards a wealthy nation with healthy natural resources and thriving people.

We facilitate multi-stakeholder dialogue, sustainable resource management, participatory research, policy and media advocacy, and green enterprise development, strengthening the organisations of farmers and forest-dependent people across Nepal.

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Participants at a Green Foundation Nepal dhakiya-weaving training holding their certificates and the baskets they made, in front of a banner carrying the Green Foundation Nepal, Tenure Facility and Government of Nepal marks.
Participants at a Green Foundation Nepal forest-enterprise and cooperative workshop, gathered behind the workshop banner.

What we do

Strengthening Community Forest User Rights & Tenure Rights

We help forest user groups secure legal recognition of the land they manage, and support them to negotiate with government on equal terms.

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Working with communities, not for them

Our work starts from what local people identify as the problem. We facilitate multi-stakeholder dialogue, participatory research and policy advocacy.

Our approach

Green enterprise and livelihoods

Bamboo, leaf plate production, nurseries and non-timber forest products, building enterprises that pay communities to keep landscapes intact.

What we have changed

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We work with donors, researchers, students and local organisations. There is more than one way to be part of this.

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Partners & Collaboratrs

REDD IC Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Implementation Centre IOF-PC Institute of Forestry Pokhara Campus TF The Tenure Facility FECOFUN Federation of Community Forestry Users, Nepal CIPRED Center for Indigenous Peoples’ Research and Development RRI Rights and Resources Initiative FAO Food and Agriculture Organization FAO.MP Mountain Partnership IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature USAID United States Agency for International Development BVT Bamboo Village Trust DGM Nepal Dedicated Grant Mechanism Nepal UNDP United Nations Development Programme FN Forest Nepal WRRN Women Rights and Resources Network Ashmita Nepal PEFC Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification NEFEJ Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists RRN Rural Reconstruction Nepal AFFON Association of Family Forest Owners Nepal MSFP Multi Stakeholder Forestry Program