Welcome to a Successful International Partnership
Since its beginning in 1989, the Nepal Community Development Foundation has helped bring water, education, health, and hope to thousands of people in rural Nepal.
Fog Collection in Eastern Nepal
The Nepal Community Development Foundation (NCDF) is a registered Canadian charity that supports development projects in eastern Nepal. NCDF was founded in 1989 to help support a variety of community development initiatives. Our projects are implemented by our sister agency in Nepal, The Namsaling Commmunity Development Center (NCDC).
The Namsaling Community Development Centre (NCDC) is a Nepali non-governmental, non-profit organization founded in 1985 to facilitate initiatives in community self-reliance. Registered with the Ilam District Administration Office and the Social Welfare Council, NCDC works in partnership with community members and organizations, local and central governments, other Nepali NGOs, and international partners.
Acting as a catalyst for local self-help solutions to rural development challenges, NCDC facilitates initiatives in non-formal education, agriculture, health and sanitation, water, income generation, communications, savings and credit, and environmental planning. Through voluntary contributions, community initiatives are carried out by primary stakeholders and user groups. Governed by an independent, publicly elected Board of Directors, NCDC's mandate is to promote community self-reliance by mobilizing collective action toward sustainable livelihoods.
Supportive of good governance through decentralization, NCDC works with civic institutions, communities and government to improve access to public services, to mainstream public participation in development reform, and to promote the integration of local priorities into development policy.
Latest News - updated July 01 2008
Field trip to Nepal 2008 - with Engineers Without Borders
In May / June of this year we made another trip to Nepal with Engineers Without Borders. accompanied us with a group of engineering students from the University of Colorado at Boulder. A number and variety of new projects were initiated, and are continuing.
The Rocky Mountain News wrote a piece about last year's trip, linked here.
Boulder Magazine also posted a story last year, linked here.
We are delighted to welcome the internationally renowned Engineers Without Borders as our new project partners. The team began several new latrine projects, as well as a tele-medicine project and a study on fog collection.
Progress on the projects will be posted here as news arrives.