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Promoting Climate Action and Environment Justice

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Advancing Climate Justice Through Community Stewardship and Resilient Ecosystems
NYDHEE believes that climate change is not only an environmental challenge but also a question of justice, as its impacts disproportionately affect rural and tribal households whose livelihoods depend directly on land, water, forests, and biodiversity. Increasing climatic variability, degradation of natural resources, and recurring disasters threaten food systems, livelihood security, and community well-being, particularly among small and marginal farmers, landless, and forest-dwelling families.
Our approach therefore places citizens at the centre of climate action by strengthening ecological stewardship, enhancing adaptive capacities, promoting conservation of natural resources and biodiversity, and enabling collective action for disaster preparedness and environmental governance. We view ecosystems and communities as deeply interconnected systems, where environmental degradation and social vulnerability reinforce one another and where climate resilience can only be achieved by strengthening both ecological health and community capacities. By integrating local knowledge, community institutions, and public systems, we support communities adapt to changing environmental realities, and build more resilient and equitable futures.

Our Core Focus Areas

Natural Resource Management

Our approach is grounded in agroecology, integrating traditional wisdom with climate-resilient and regenerative farming practices. We promote the use of natural bio-inputs and other indigenous formulations to restore soil health, enhance biodiversity, and reduce dependency on chemical inputs.

We prioritize indigenous seed conservation and community-led seed systems through community-based seed and grain banks to revive local crop diversity, strengthen seed sovereignty, and ensure long-term resilience of farming systems. By blending traditional knowledge with sustainable innovations, we enable farming communities to build self-reliant, ecologically balanced, and climate-resilient livelihoods.

Our community-led model is driven by Smart Sakhis—trained grassroots women leaders who act as catalysts for change at the village level. They mobilize communities, facilitate demonstrations, and support the adoption of agroecological and climate-resilient practices.

By enabling peer learning, strengthening last-mile engagement, and promoting gender-responsive climate action, Smart Sakhis ensure community ownership, sustained behavior change, and locally driven ecological solutions.

We advance ecosystem restoration and conservation through strategic convergence with programmes like VB—G RAM G and the Department of Forest and Climate Change. Our interventions focus on soil and water conservation measures—such as contour bunding, trenching, and farm pond development—along with afforestation, regeneration of degraded lands, and protection of common natural resources (land, forest, and water).

By aligning community action with public investments, we strengthen water security, biodiversity conservation, and land productivity, while building climate resilience and generating local employment. This integrated approach fosters community stewardship and long-term sustainability of ecosystems and livelihoods.

We promote ecological literacy and climate awareness to enable communities to understand, value, and protect their natural resources and environment. Through continuous engagement and learning platforms, we build informed communities capable of making sustainable and climate-resilient decisions.

By fostering collective ownership and community stewardship, we empower community-based institutions and citizens to lead accountable, community-driven climate action—ensuring long-term sustainability and conservation of ecosystems.

We strengthen community resilience by building capacities for disaster preparedness, risk reduction, and climate adaptation, particularly in vulnerable regions prone to cyclones, floods, and other shocks.

During natural and human-induced disasters, we provide timely humanitarian assistance, including emergency relief, safe evacuation support, access to essential services, and protection of vulnerable groups. We also prioritize psychosocial care and community healing, ensuring dignity and well-being in crisis situations. Through community-led planning, awareness, and institutional convergence, we enable communities to anticipate, respond, and recover effectively, fostering long-term resilience and preparedness.

Towards Just and Regenerative Futures

Our climate action work seeks to ensure that communities most affected by environmental change have the capacities, knowledge, and institutional support necessary to protect the ecosystems on which their lives and livelihoods depend. By strengthening ecological stewardship, conserving biodiversity, promoting collective action, and enhancing preparedness for climate risks, we strive to create pathways where people and ecosystems can adapt, recover, and thrive together in more just and resilient futures.