Centre for Environmental Management and Participatory Development (CEMPD)
Registered under the West Bengal Societies Registration act 1961. Registration No & Date: SO107896 of 2001-2002,
Legacy Registration No. : S/1L/07896, Valid up to: Permanent
FCRA Registration No: 147120808, Date: 22.04.2008, Valid up to: 01/01/2027
PAN Number: AAAAC3900E Niti Ayog Id: WB/2016/0101940
CEMPD has started its career in 2002 as an independent, non-profit, public-interest organization focused on community-centric participatory environmental management.
The organization actively associates itself with the management of real-life local environmental issues and contributes effectively to relevant contemporary researches in the fields of regional/local environmental management, closely linked to social sector development and community-based people’s initiatives. CEMPD has been recognized and supported by the West Bengal State Government, Central Government of India and also by some National and International organizations in its short span of journey. The organization is also supported by some CSR projects.
“ ... the environment cannot be improved in condition of poverty, unless we re in a position to provide employment and purchasing power for the daily necessities for the tribal people and those who live in around our jungle, we cannot prevent them from combing the forest for food and livelihood; from poaching and from dispoiling the vegetation. How can we speak to those who live in village and slums about keeping the ocean, the river and the air clean when their own lives are contaminated at the source? ”
— INDIRA GANDHI, Stockholm Conference, 1972
Objectives of CEMPD
Conducting action research in the broad field of environment management with special focus on natural resources (e.g. water, agriculture, soil, air, forest etc.) planning, conservation, and management.
Carrying out results-oriented development and research activities in different areas of social, economic, gender, and public health aspects.
Promotion of cultural, scientific and technical education for enhancing popular understanding and awareness of major contemporary social and environmental issues.
Arranging and organizing lectures, debates, discussions, seminars, workshops and excursions for the diffusion of knowledge in the field of environmental management and social development.
Publishing useful literature, magazines, newsletters etc. related to social development and environmental management problems.
Collaborating with national and international academic and research institutions in the field of Social development, environmental studies and management.
Developing user level software tools for geo-scientific work and research.
To challenge the socio economic inequalities and enable the vulnerable sections of society towards the goal of self reliance under CSR program.
Association of CEMPD
- Wetlands international-South Asia, New Delhi.
- University of Essex, UK.
- International Union for Conservation of Nature(IUCN), UK
- School of Environment, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi.
- Fish Base Information and Research Group, FIN, PHILIPPINES.
- Centre for the Development of human Initiatives (CHI) West Bengal, India.
- Research Institute of Aquaculture 1(RIA 1), VIETNAM.
- University of Stirling, UK.
- South China Agricultural University (SCAU), CHINA.
- Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation Limited (CESC), Kolkata.
- Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), Kolkata.
- Kolkata Environment Improvement Project (KEIP), Kolkata.
- Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.
- Ministry of Environment and Forests, Govt. of India.
- Roskilde University, DENMARK.
