About Us

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Our Vision & Mission

To integrate the knowledge and experience of multiple stakeholders working on diverse issues across Uttarakhand Mountain independently, this is then used to inform and influence policy, at the state level.

About SDFU

Sustainable Development Forum Uttarakhand is a civil society-led network platform with the mission to mainstream the concerns of Uttarakhand and its people in the development dialogue of the state. It functions as a platform to integrate the knowledge and experiences of multiple stakeholders working across Uttarakhand. SDFU Organized workshops and meetings and informs and influences policy at the state level. SDFU aims to create a platform where these stakeholders integrate the collective knowledge and experience through an informed dialogue on identified themes for catalyzing action for sustainable development. Translating the dialogues further, our objective is to generate action on such themes through informed, relevant policies and action on the ground. SDFU is a decentralized and voluntary initiative of individual members and institutions and is affiliated with the Integrated Mountain Initiative (IMI) as the state chapter organization for Uttarakhand, which is a civil society network formed in 2011 with the objective of providing stakeholders from the states of the Indian Himalayas region, a platform to discuss issues related to mountain development.

SDFU & IMI: Allies in Mountain Development Excellence

SDFU, is affiliated to the Integrated Mountain Initiative as state chapter organization for Uttarakhand. IMI is a civil society led network platform with the mission to mainstream concerns of the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) and its people in the development dialogue of India. It functions as a platform to integrate the knowledge and experiences of multiple stakeholders working across the IHR, and uses this to inform and influence policy at the national and state level.

Organisational Structure

SDFU is, essentially, a decentralized, voluntary initiative of individual members and institutions. SDFU maintains a lean organizational structure with a Governing Council, elected from among life members for a three year term, and a Secretariat at its core. Members based in a mountain state come together to constitute the State Chapter of that state.