The Small Earth Nepal (SEN), the Consortium for Capacity Building (CCB) at the University of Colorado and the Asia Pacific Mountain Network (APMN) of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) are organizing the ?Asia Pacific Graduates? Youth Forum on Green Economy? in Kathmandu, Nepal from 25-29 September, 2012.

Funded under the CAPaBLE Program of the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN), this forum will attract 40 youth from the wider Asia-Pacific region, who are engaged in sustainability issues. The five-day long program will contain capacity building and knowledge exchange sessions, leadership exercises and excursions to nearby environmental projects.

The forum is also supported by the Government of Nepal, the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC), US Agency for International Development/Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA), the Small Earth Australia (SEA), and the Centre for Hydrology at the University of Saskatchewan.

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