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Climate Change Leaders Initiative (CCL):

This is Lead India’s latest and most ambitious project to address the challenge of Climate Change. It has been observed that there is a gap between the climate change needs at the regional and local level and the national thinking and policies. This is largely due to lack of leadership at the regional and local levels. The CCL program is aimed at addressing this concern by building a cadre of leaders in different regions of India from all key stakeholder groups and across various sectors (agriculture, forestry, freshwater, fisheries etc). We will help identify, train and mentor these influential members of their community to facilitate action plans that bring forth regional climate change priorities/concerns to policy-makers at the national level.

LEAD India will identify the 60 climate leaders at grassroots level from Indian Himalayan region and

train them to work for sustainability of the Himalayan ecosystem.

The project will then be spread to different regions of the country as well as across the world through our partner organizations.

More Details: Visit the CCL website.

Beyond Leadership:

Beyond Leadership is an innovative training programme in corporate leadership for sustainability. Much is being said about how business can become more sustainable but without a profound change in today’s leaders understanding, attitudes and engagement sustainability will remain just another fade concept. What is required is a leadership programme that challenges participants’ understanding of what sustainable business really

means, encourages them to learn from real world cases and raises their leadership skills and capabilities in ways that change can effectively happen in the organization. Beyond Leadership takes business leaders out of their comfort zone and encourages them to think innovative about new models, new technologies and unexpected solutions that will raise the corporations’ sustainability game. LEAD India has already delivered this programme for eighty high achievers from a respected multi-national bank and we are currently replicating it with other institutions in the Corporate Sector.

Divisional Forest Officers Workshop:

A series of trainings have been initiated for Divisional Forest Officials and Divisional Officials of agriculture and watershed departments. These trainings focus on the issues and challenges of Mountain Ecosystems in Uttarakhand.

The objective of the training is capacity building along with building an understanding of the emerging issues and challenges of mountain ecosystem which can be transformed by these officials for the benefit of the society.

Voluntary Carbon Market Workshop:

LEAD India has realized that it is important to build awareness and capacities of the community through trainings by initiating interventions in the process of mitigating climate change. The key objectives of this project are to make sure carbon finance reaches poorer communities and so encourages them to join the battle against climate change and to enable people working on the ground level in rural areas to identify projects with the potential to generate Carbon Credits. They learn the basic steps to be followed in developing CDM projects as well as implementing projects that would provide sustained

development, improved livelihoods and a cleaner environment to the local people. As the pilot programme held in Pune in May proved to be very successful, it is currently being replicated with local level organizations across the country.

Community Based Tourism:

LEAD India, in collaboration with the Forest Department of Uttarakhand with support from the Ford Foundation held a workshop on community based tourism in Uttaranchal from the 15th to the 17th of April.

Youth Summits on Climate Change:

LEAD India, in collaboration with Indian Youth Climate Network, UNESCO, the Youth Parliament Foundation and FODRA, organized the Delhi Youth Summit on Climate which took place on the 28th & 29th of May

May 2008 at the Teen Murti Bhavan, New Delhi. The first of its kind, the youth summit expressed the concerns and dedication of the youth towards the environment. The summit culminated in the drafting of the Delhi Youth Charter on climate 2008. The Charter, containing a list of proposals which are to be taken into consideration while planning Delhi’s development, has been presented to the Chief Minister of Delhi Ms Sheila Dixit.

Musical Ballet on Climate Change:

Endeavoring to use innovative ways to raise awareness on Climate Change, Lead India organized a musical ballet “Vasundhara” which was presented on the 12th of June, 2008 at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi. Choreographed, directed and performed by Classical Odissi dancer Sharmila Ganguly along with students of the “Mohini” troupe from Mount Sinai School, Ram Nagar in Uttarakhand, the ballet was

very well received and appreciated. Keeping this in mind we will continue to use art as a medium to create awareness on environment and development related issues.

Thin Green Line:

LEAD India has produced a film series titled Thin Green Line in collaboration with Aradhana Kohli Kapoor, a LEAD Fellow of Cohort 5, which has been aired on a National Television channel, Doordarshan. The Series focuses on discussions with school children and eminent environmentalists on issues related to Animal Rights, Human and Wildlife Conflicts, Economic Development & Environmental Degradation, Closure of Polluting Industries & Labour Problems, Eco Tourism & Environmental Degradation.

LEAD India is currently organizing a once a month screening of an episode of The Thin Green Line in the

Chief Minister’s residence, for 200 school children per screening. It will be an interactive session with our resource persons answering the children’s queries.

Building Sustainable Livelihoods on the Tsunami Affected Great Nicobar

Despite the rehabilitation efforts of the last three years, many community members on the Nicobar Islands, who were most severely impacted by the Tsunami are unable to return to the sustainable livelihoods that formed the basis for local economy and provided a strong social fabric. This project aims to deliver a combination of interventions to enhance the capacity of farmers and other stakeholders to enjoy improved livelihoods through the development of sustainable community enterprise. The project aims to promote better resource management and the use of simple, clean technologies to improve the financial outlook of

communities and to deliver health benefits. Training and capacity building activities will work to equip communities to develop solutions that they own, and the project will support and facilitate better participation and engagement in decision-making. The project will be delivered through an established partnership involving LEAD International, LEAD India, ‘The Covenant Centre for Development’ and a wide range of local stakeholders who have participated in the design and development of the initiative.

The project will deliver 3 parallel work programmes to enhance the capacity of the community and strengthen their livelihoods around community enterprises. These are as follows:

I. Strengthened livelihood options
II. Sustainable natural resource management
III. Community health

Governance & leadership will be addressed as a cross cutting theme through the 3 work programmes and also through specific dialogue sessions and workshops to complement the work programmes.

1. Community Based Tourism
2. Ecotourism and Community Based Tourism