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AMHRWO

SAWTEE

SDPI

AMHRWO

• Mission Statement
• Our Objectives and Goals
• Organizational operations and linkages
• Board of Directors

Mission Statement

The Alpine Medicinal Herbs and Rural Welfare Organization (AMHRWO) is a non-profitable organization established in April 2001.Our mission is to alleviate poverty through promoting sustainable growth and marketing of medicinal herbs/plants found in the mountainous region of Northern Pakistan.

Our Objectives and Goals

Our goal is to create a form of protection for the forest and wildlife resources in the Northern Areas for the well being of the local population.

In addition:

• To register the community knowledge about the use of medicinal plants.
• To prepare an inventory of biological resources found in the area.
• To promote awareness about protection, conservation and sustainable exploitation of the medicinal herbs and plants found in the area.
• To provide communities a platform for commercializing their knowledge to earn their livelihoods.
• Facilitate modern research on medicinal herbs to protect indigenous valuable resources of the area so that the rural population can be benefited from their natural wealth in the long run.
• To support the people living in Jungle/forest areas, uplifting their standard of living.
• To arrange alternative business for those who are engaged in timber trade.
• Create awareness to youth about the effects of drug abuse.
• To take the initiative aimed at betterment and welfare of the women folk.
• To identify and carry out different activities for socio-economic uplift of the poor in the area

Organizational operations and linkages

The methodology of organization's objectives execution is based on most organized and streamlined patterns, having following system of work:

• Teamwork as organized participation components.
• On ground aggressive placement of projects in the extended plot with continuous monitoring
• Research portfolio as primary goal of the project t advice prospective future growers and community cells.
• To hold seminars in house discussions on overall progress with minute recording for the time distribution among the stakeholders.
• Invite research scholars for on spot inspection and advice.
• Prepare web site to create awareness and answer quarries.
• Ask for lab testing of newly grown roots for its healthy fiver and postures.
• To initiate working papers re-successful implementation of project for further spread of research areas.
• To share views with mountain communities before launching a research program at the selected areas
• Submit final report to donors for evaluation.

Board of Directors

The Alpine Medicinal Herbs & Rural Welfare Organization (AMHRWO) has been working in the area with the mission to alleviate poverty through promoting sustainable growth, marketing and conservation of medicinal herbs/plants on the mountainous region through out the Northern Areas of Pakistan.

The AMHRWO has planned to launch a comprehensive project aiming at maintaining bio-diversity through in-situ and ex-situ conservation. It would result in the sustainable management of the medicinal plants in the wilderness and improved livelihoods of the communities through the commercial production and marketing of this valuable product. Their natural habitat would be rehabilitated; thus improving the pastures with enhanced scenic beauty.

South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment (SAWTEE)

South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment (SATEE) was launched in December 1994 at Nagarkot, Nepal by a consortium of South Asian non-governmental organizations (NGOs). It is a solicited , non-profit, non-governmental organization, currently operating through its headquarters in Kathmandu. Consisting of an eleven-member institution, five being from South Asian countries, namely Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka . As a side note, in Pakistan, Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) is its partner institute.

SAWTEE was established with the aim to “enable South Asian communities to benefit from and minimise the harms of changing regional and the global economic paradigm”. The overall objective of SAWTEE is to build the capacity of the concerned stakeholders in South Asia, by equipping them with knowledge, information and skills to voice their concerns, particularly in the context of liberalization and globalization. Specific objectives include:

To analyze various provisions of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreements and functioning of the system so as to promote social justice and economic equity at the national, regional and global levels.

To conduct programmes aimed at enhancing participation of developing countries, in particular least developed countries (LDCs) and land locked countries in the global trading system.

To facilitate the process of regional integration within South Asia from the non-governmental side.

To establish linkages and promote cooperation with other organizations having similar objectives.

To conduct research and advocacy programmes on trade, regional cooperation and sustainable development issues affecting South Asia.

Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI)

SDPI was founded in August 1992 on the recommendation of the Pakistan National Conservation Strategy (NCS), also called Pakistan's Agenda 21. This highly acclaimed document, approved by the Federal Cabinet in March 1992, outlined the need for an independent non-profit organization to serve as a source of expertise for policy analysis and development, policy intervention, and policy and program advisory services in support of NCS implementation. SDPI is registered under the Cooperative Societies Act, 1860. Specific Objectives include:

• Conduct policy advice, policy oriented research and advocacy from a broad multi-disciplinary perspective.
• Promote the implementation of policies, programs, laws and regulations based on sustainable development.
• Strengthen civil society and facilitate civil society-government interaction through collaboration with other organizations and activist networks.
• Disseminate research findings and public education through the media, conferences, seminars, lectures, publications and curricula development, including the Citizens Report and State of the Environment Report.
• Contribute to building up national research capacity and infrastructure.