The event is being organized by the Small Earth Nepal (SEN), the
Consortium for Capacity Building (CCB) at INSTAAR at the University of
Colorado, Boulder and the Asia Pacific Mountain Network (APMN) of the
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in
Kathmandu, Nepal.
Funded under the CAPaBLE Program of the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change
Research (APN), this forum involves 40 youth who are engaged in
sustainability issues from the wider Asia-Pacific region. The five-day
program beginning 25 September 2012 includes capacity building and
knowledge exchange sessions, leadership exercises, and excursions to
nearby environmental projects. The workshop aims to provide a forum for
sharing ideas and experiences necessary to achieve the sustainability
within a green economy.
The forum is also supported by the Government of Nepal, the Swiss
Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC), US Agency for International
Development/Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA), the
Small Earth Australia (SEA), and the Centre for Hydrology at the
University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
Details about the event are available at this
link.
