Capacity-building and Sustainable Development
About Us
Water quality sampling
Asta-Ja Research and Development Center (Asta-Ja RDC) is a registered non-profit and non-governmental organization with headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal. The Asta-Ja RDC was first registered in District Development Office, Kathmandu, on 2071-1-10 B.S. (Reg. N. 715), and since then it has been renewed accordingly. The Asta-Ja RDC includes an 11-member Executive Board with President, Senior Vice-President, Vice-President, General Secretary, Secretary, Treasurer, and five Members. The Asta-Ja RDC Executive Board includes highly recognized and experienced professional with the highest level of ethics, morale, and commitment for community services, research and development, and nation-building. We are dedicated to enhance grassroots community involvement in research and development of Asta-Ja (Eight-Ja) , Nepali letter 'Ja', meaning, Jal (water), Jamin (land), Jungle (forest), Jadibuti (medicinal & aromatic plants), Janashakti (manpower), Janawar (animals), Jarajuri (crop plants), and Jalbayu (climate) for poverty alleviation and socio-economic transformation of Nepal.
The Asta-Ja RDC is dedicated to community capacity-building through training, technology transfer, logistic support, policy advocacy, and research and development. In order to bring knowledge, experience and skills together for nation-building from both outside and within the country, the Asta-Ja RDC has created a wonderful interdisciplinary network of individuals, Asta-Ja International Coordination Council (Asta-Ja ICC), who are highly enthusiastic and committed to the socio-economic development of Nepal. This is certainly the first network of its kind in the history of Nepal. This network includes highly accomplished scientists, academicians, businessmen, medical doctors, engineers, computer scientists, graduate students, administrators, IT professionals, service providers, researchers, and other professionals. We work very efficiently, cordially, and collaboratively with our local communities, research and development institutions, district and central level governmental agencies, international donor agencies, NGOs, INGOs, business communities and other stakeholders in agricultural, natural resources, and environmental projects and community capacity-building. We deliver outstanding results in record time.
Our goal is to develop partnership with research and developmental institutions, governmental agencies, community organizations, universities, non-governmental organizations, and other stakeholders and work collaboratively in agricultural, natural resources, environmental and other research and developmental projects. We strive for community capacity-building, gender/ethnic equity, social justice, innovations and solutions to nation's agricultural, natural resources, and environmental problems and management challenges. We are well-connected to grassroots communities, governmental agencies, and policy making bodies. We envision an economically prosperous, environmentally sound, and socially just Nepal through sustainable development and management of Asta-Ja resources. We strive for grassroots-based, participatory, comprehensive, and collaborative agricultural and natural resources research and development for poverty alleviation and socio-economic transformation of the nation. We will work to help farmers, governmental agencies and other stakeholders in developing sustainable commercialized agriculture in Nepal. We strive for enhancing environmental quality through the framework of Asta-Ja.