Association of District Development Committees of Nepal (ADDCN) is a
representative institution of 75 DDCs, can play major roles in mobilizing
support from GoN, DDCs and from different programme to promote renewable energy
technology. It can also help DDCs to establish full partnerships with different
agencies working in the RET sectors in the districts. ADDCN has been giving very
much important to promote RE in the rural areas and formulated policy statement
on rural energy "the promotion of rural energy systems and services through
coordination and partnership with different stakeholders by local governments
which ensures the creation of institutional mechanisms and human capacities for
achieving sustainable livelihoods at the local level’. Based on this statement,
the main task of the NaREE unit is lobby and advocate for sustainable rural
energy development, policy feedback, information dissemination and professional
support to member DDCs/stakeholders in terms of capacity building in energy
planning and implementation. ADDCN has been established a forum of DDCs
Chairperson called, District Energy Network (DNET) to promote decentralised
rural energy at local level. At the same time, ADDCN has been representing in
different national level committees/forums as an active member and stakeholder
to promote RE; e.g.
REP, REDP,
WECS, Central Natural Resource Revenue Sharing Committee (MLD) and other
forums to promote RE and Environment, therefore the role of ADDCN is very
important to promote energy and environment. Realizing this, ADDCN has
established Natural Resource, Energy and Environment Unit within the
institutional framework of ADDCN to support member DDCs in the matter of Natural
Resource, Energy and Environment.
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