announcements

Team Up for Climate 2024

Wetlands for Nepal has won the Team Up for Climate Challenge 2024 enabling us to adopt a solution to urban flooding using rain gardens in Kathmandu.

In Our Hands Entrepreneurship Programme

From nuisance to nurturer. As a team of ecologists and engineers, Anu, Nischal and Manoj hope to use nature-based solutions to conserve biodiversity and support wetland restoration while creating benefits for the community through a social enterprise. The team hopes to conserve and promote the fragile ecosystem by managing invasive species of water lettuce that occupy water bodies across the country. Prototyping Jalkumbi growing in Nagdaha into liquid fertiliser and insecticide, the initiative employs local youth to produce agro-resources within a community which relies predominantly on agrarian income. 

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Youth Food Lab

The Youth Food Lab was created to bring idea stage solutions to implementation, and to scale up existing projects. Ten teams, consisting of young researchers, entrepreneurs and innovators have been selected for the first cohort of this new incubation programme, which will start in February 2023. Via tailor-made programmes, the teams receive hands-on mentorship, expert workshops, access to a large network and visibility at the global WFF stage in October 2023.