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
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Street Act Play

Street Act Play

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.

Nepal Development MarketPlace 2008
Nepal Development MarketPlace 2008
Development MarketPlace Amature Videography Contest
Development MarketPlace Amature Videography Contest
Tech Museum Award 2007
Rech Museum Award 2007
2007, Tech Museum Awards (category Economic Development) (for Solar Tuki), The Tech Museum of Innovation, California, USA
Tech Museum Award-2007
2007, Global Development Marketplace Photography Contest, World Bank, Washington DC
Photography Contest-2007
2008, Global Development Marketplace Amateur Video Contest, World Bank, Washington DC
World Bank Award-2005
2001, ‘Environment Award and Cash Prize’, Ministry of Population and Environment, Government of Nepal
Government of Nepal-2001
  • UNEP South Asian Youth Environment Network (SAYEN) – Country focal point
  • Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) – Country coordinator and Member secretary of the National Steering Committee
  • IUCN – The World Conservation Union, Switzerland – NGO member since 1991
  • Nepal National Committee of IUCN – General Secretary
  • NGO Federation – Founding member
  • Nepal Permaculture Group (NPG) – Founding Member
  • Improved Cook Stove (ICS) Network – Member
  • Consortium of organizations working for the child club – Member

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

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Eco friendly Haat Bazaar

Eco friendly Haat BazaarHaat 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

Initiation of School Environment Improvement Program in Mirge VDC, DolkhaWith 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...
 
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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...
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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.
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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..
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  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.
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Participatory Mai River Monitoring [PMRR]
PMRRThe 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.
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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.
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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

 
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