The completion of the Design Sprint in November marks the beginning of our journey to incubate tourism enterprises through the Tourovation Hub to adopt Renewable Energy (RE) and Energy Efficient (EE) solutions and approaches in their businesses. Our 8 tourism enterprises come from diverse sectors within the tourism industry such as organic farm stays, resorts, lodges, financial cooperatives, green-commerce and research centers spread across three different provinces: Bagmati, Gandaki and Karnali operating from an altitude that stretches from 415 meters to up to 5000 meters above sea level.

In the spirit of transformation, we are elated to have Salonika Singh as our newest board member join the Nepal Communitere family starting October. We connected with Salonika back in 2018 when she was a jury member during our 2018 Kathmandu Mini Maker Faire. Since then we’ve been exploring how we can engage her more deeply in our work to develop meaningful ways to support female-led businesses around financial literacy and access to finance. We couldn’t be more excited to have Ms. Singh join our vision to strengthen Nepali startups!

Though October is the month to slow down and to prepare for the Dashain holidays, we at Nepal Communitere were busy transforming our team with fresh new faces! Meet Samanata Thapa! Samanata has recently joined the Nepal Communitere team as our new ‘Program Officer” for our two new business incubation programs that we’ve recently launched.

2020 has been a challenging year to say the least, but during this unpredictable time we at Nepal Communitere are discovering new partnerships to leverage our skills and assets in new and exciting ways. This month, we’re launching yet another new collaboration with Women LEAD and The Asia Foundation (TAF) to design a coaching program to build the leadership skills for Nepal’s female Deputy Mayors.