Promising further collaborations and continued partnership in researching and building the capacity of a range of demographics (including women and youth) on climate change and disaster-related issues, The Small Earth Nepal (SEN) and the Consortium for Capacity Building (CCB) at the University of Colorado, Boulder exchanged emblems during the Asia-Pacific Graduates’ Youth Forum on Green Economy (APGYF) on 27 September 2012 in Kathmandu.
Handing over a bronze medallion from the University of Colorado, Boulder to Mr. Dhiraj Pradhananga, President of SEN, Prof. Michael H. Glantz, Director of CCB, and Mr. Gregory Pierce, Senior Researcher at CCB, thanked and congratulated the SEN family for their strong and continued efforts to ensure the success of the organizations’ joint ventures. The two CCB seniors also wished for and made a commitment to even more involved collaborations on future programmes.
To be sure, the APGYF was just their latest joint effort. SEN and CCB have been collaborating on various research and outreach activities since 2009. In 2010, for instance, they collaborated on a 10-week anthropological climate and social change research project in the high mountains of Dolpo, Nepal. In November of the same year, they also successfully co-organized the first International Graduate Conference on Climate Change and People (IGCCCP) in Kathmandu, which received base funding from the Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN). Notably joining the fruitful collaboration between SEN and CCB to help ensure the success of the APGYF this year, both organizations were also very pleased to welcome other collaborative partners like the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and again APN among a dozen other supporters.
At this time, the SEN family would like to extend their deep gratitude and thanks to Prof. Glantz, Mr. Pierce and their team at CCB for their continued interest in collaborating on research and capacity building activities on climate change and disaster-related issues.
