Environmental Camps for Conservation Awareness (ECCA) has been a leading organization in the sector of social mobilization and community development. It implements various programmes so as to raise the quality of life through wise-use of available local resources and application of alternate and renewable technologies.
Mission
ECCA will be a Model Professional Volunteer Organization (PVO) dedicated towards natural resources management
ECCA will organize programmes so as to secure children's sound ecological future
ECCA will support the development of conservation related entrepreneurship
With an objective to aware communities about safe drinking water and sanitation, different water purification methods and to promote safe supply of drinking water in community so as to prevent the communities from water borne disease, ECCA is organizing 2nd School Street Drama Competition in coordination with 10 different schools. The schools will invite 5 other schools to perform the drama in their community based on the theme of "Safe Drinking Water Campaign". The program will be organized from 15th November to 30th December in different venues. The nature club students are mobilized and will perform the drama in the competition.
The grand final program will be organized in 3rd week of January 2012, which will be organized in Mangalbazar, Patan Durbar Square, Lalitpur.
Light-For-All
In Nepal, 2.4 million households are to this day compelled to use kerosene based Tuki for household... more
Plant-A-Tree
Global warming has threatened the future of the Earth. No doubt, the increasing human activities...more
Support-A-Child
Although the development in the education sector is significant, the situation where Nepal stands...more
Safe-Drinking-Water
Water distribution systems in Nepal are mostly focused on the urban centers. more
News & Events
Eco friendly Haat Bazaar
Haat Bazaar, is a general term which notifies about a weekly market organized in rural society. This market helps people to exchange the surplus agricultural products with the goods they require to survive in their daily life. Today also, Haat Bazar is still practiced in rural areas. more...
Initiation of School Environment Improvement Program in Mirge VDC, Dolkha
With the primary objective to implement, the concept of School Environment Improvement program in Mirge VDC of Dolkha District, a three-day's Visioning Workshop for the teachers and four day's ECCA Camp for the students were successfully organized in the month of June 2011. more...
Wise-use House Network ECCA
constructed its office building - named as 'Wise-use House' -
in Jwagol, Kopundol and its office was shifted there on March
14, 2004. It is envisaged to house several link-minded NGOs in
this building and adjacent buildings... read
more
SRBD Network ECCA
has been backstopping Socially Responsible Business Development
Network (SRBDN) a multi-stakeholder forum since 1 st January
2008. SRBDN has been successfully continuing since its establishment
in the year 2004. read
more
Kathmandu Participatory
River Monitoring [KAPRIMO] From
February 2006 ECCA has launched Kathmandu Participatory River
Monitoring (KAPRIMO) – A Model for South Asia project in partnership
with Adelphi Research gGmbH (Germany) and International Institute
of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) Netherlands.
This European Union supported 2-year project.. read
more
Nature Club
Nature club is one of the backbones in ECCA history. ECCA initiated
concept of nature club in 1992 from Janakpur under the WWF-US
programme. Since then, many organi- zations are following the
concept of nature clubs by giving different names. read
more
Participatory Mai River
Monitoring [PMRR] The
Kathmandu Participatory River Monitoring (KAPRIMO) system was
conceptualized by ECCA as a model for South Asia. River monitoring
system is necessary in all the rivers of the world as day by day
it is getting polluted due to human encroachment. As a first replication
of the KAPRIMO project, a Development Fund Norway as Environmental
Movements in the South (EMIS) has funded a project Participatory
Mai River Reclamation (PMRR) implemented by Namsaling Community
Development Centre (NCDC, Ilam) in coordination with ECCA. read
more
Winter Camp 2011
Environmental Camps for Conservation Awareness (ECCA) is going to organize Winter Camps during this winter vacation of the school for urban students of class 5 to 9.
Camp Date :11-14 January 2012 (27-30 Poush 2068)
Camp Venue:Environment Resource Center, Sipadol, Bhaktapur
Limited 30 seats, so hurry up and register your participation. more...
Top Ten Counselors, 2011
01. Mr. Rabindra Khatri (Counselor of the Year) 02. Mr. Bipin Kumar Shrestha (Counselor of the Year) 03. Ms. Puja Maharjan 04. Ms. Arati Maharjan 05. Ms. Prabha Maharjan 06. Ms. Shailena Sthapit 07. Ms. Riza Sharma 08. Mr. Anup K.C. 09. Mr. Dipesh Khatiwada 10. Mr. Sushil Rai
Haat Bazaar, is a general term which notifies about a weekly market organized in rural society. This market helps people to exchange the surplus agricultural products with the goods they require to survive in their daily life. Today also, Haat Bazar is still practiced in rural areas. 
With the primary objective to implement, the concept of School Environment Improvement program in Mirge VDC of Dolkha District, a three-day's Visioning Workshop for the teachers and four day's ECCA Camp for the students were successfully organized in the month of June 2011. 
ECCA
constructed its office building - named as 'Wise-use House' -
in Jwagol, Kopundol and its office was shifted there on March
14, 2004. It is envisaged to house several link-minded NGOs in
this building and adjacent buildings...
ECCA
has been backstopping Socially Responsible Business Development
Network (SRBDN) a multi-stakeholder forum since 1 st January
2008. SRBDN has been successfully continuing since its establishment
in the year 2004. 
From
February 2006 ECCA has launched Kathmandu Participatory River
Monitoring (KAPRIMO) – A Model for South Asia project in partnership
with Adelphi Research gGmbH (Germany) and International Institute
of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) Netherlands.
This European Union supported 2-year project..
Nature club is one of the backbones in ECCA history. ECCA initiated
concept of nature club in 1992 from Janakpur under the WWF-US
programme. Since then, many organi- zations are following the
concept of nature clubs by giving different names.
The
Kathmandu Participatory River Monitoring (KAPRIMO) system was
conceptualized by ECCA as a model for South Asia. River monitoring
system is necessary in all the rivers of the world as day by day
it is getting polluted due to human encroachment. As a first replication
of the KAPRIMO project, a Development Fund Norway as Environmental
Movements in the South (EMIS) has funded a project Participatory
Mai River Reclamation (PMRR) implemented by Namsaling Community
Development Centre (NCDC, Ilam) in coordination with ECCA.
