Observing the increasing disconnect of young people to their lands, culture, food and traditions, NEN has been organising the NEN Farm School with young people since 2016 under the theme “Bridging the Farm-to-Plate Gap”. In this year, our objective was to expand our reach to students in semi-urban and rural areas. To achieve this, the…
NEN team could continue to engage with the weavers by distributing raw materials to ensure a stable income throughout the year. NEN’s home-based model for weaving and remuneration processes managed to attract more women in the communities. The NEN project team and community mobilisers have developed a strategy to enhance skills of weavers. Each weaver…
Tribal identity globally has always been defined by one primary natural resource- Land. It comes as no surprise then, that the majorly tribal inhabitants of North East India derive all their social, cultural, political and economic sustenance from their land. It ‘exemplifies and boasts unique and rich diversity in land governance regimes which are witnessing…
Since 2016, NEN Meghalaya has been working in strengthening women’s groups in addressing gender-based violence in the state. Under the thematic area of GBDVAW, NEN Meghalaya has been collaborating with the Akhil Nepali Mahila Samhiti in addressing and redressing gender-based discrimination faced by the marginalised urban poor women in the Cantonment Area. Over the years,…
International Youth Day 2019 at Chizami The youth have always been an integral part of NEN’s changemaking process as the future drivers of change. This year itself we have had major engagements with them through our gender sensitization programmes, the farm school that enabled urban youth to work towards sustainable agriculture and a puppeteering workshop…
Wekoweu Tsuhah (Akole) represented NEN in the Development Management Day, organised by the Indian School of Development Management (ISDM) held on 1st Feb 2019 in New Delhi. She was invited to participate in the panel on ‘Conversations on Development Management with Young Leaders’ alongside 4 young leaders in the development sector (Mantra 4Change, Azad Foundation,…
9 February, 2018, Shillong NEN Shillong assisted the Green Hub team, Tezpur in coordinating and mobilizing people to participate the ‘Yes I am the change workshop’ which encourages the use of films as a medium to communicate stories that drive social impact.