Manahari Development Institute (MDI) Nepal has won the Hasimoto APFED 2008 International Award for its environment reform and poverty alleviation programmes. The award carries a purse of $20,000.
MDI was selected for the award for launching poverty alleviation and various income-generating activities for ethnic communities in Manahari, Hadikhola, Kankada and Raksirang village development committees (VDCs) of Makawanpur district. MDI executed the programmes in cooperation with United Nations' World Environment Fund.
Founded in 2001 in memory of former Japanese prime minister Ryutaro Hasimoto, the award is given every year to a social organisation of Asia and the Pacific region.
Programme coordinator of the MDI-Nepal Khop Narayan Shrestha thanked the Ryutaro Hasimoto Award Committee for choosing his organisation for the award. He also appreciated the cooperation extended by DANIDA, Poverty Alleviation Fund, FAO, GTZ, World Food Programme, district development committee Makwanpur and local village development committees for the implementation of MDI's programmes.
Shrestha has left for Deveo city in the Philippines to receive the award, which will be handed over at a fourth prize distribution ceremony of the Asia and Pacific Environment and Development Forum (APFED). The ceremony will be held on July 25 and 26.
(source:THT online)
No comments:
Post a Comment