YES Leader: Mr. Bhuwan K.C.
Email :bhuwan@yes.org.np
Website : YES-Nepal

Vision : To become the trend setters in Nepal through prom otion of green employment opportunities aligned with climate change.

Background : With half the working-age population unemployed and nearly 40 percent of the population under the age of 14, youth employment is a critical issue in Nepal. The Nepali workforce suffers from a severe shortage of skilled labor, and YES Nepal is working to confront these challenges by leading the "Green jobs" promotion in Nepal.

About the Network : Registered as an NGO, YES Nepal is a youth-led organization which advocates youth-led development and works on sectors related environment, employment and entrepreneurship. Most of its current activities are inclined towards climate change and energy conservation.

Current Major Initiatives:

• Promotion of energy efficient stoves for rural communities. Organizes trainings on construction and repairing of these stoves thus directly creating green employment opportunities.
• Creating partnership with TERI for expansion of their Lighting a Billion Lives (LaBL) Campaign.
• Mobilizing environmental volunteers" EnviroCorps" for raising awareness on environmental issues and convincing people to adopt environment friendly lifestyles.
• Change the Bulb Campaign to switch to efficient energy consumption, particularly from incandescent bulb to compact fluorescent light bulbs.
• Campus Climate Challenge (C3) aims to promote clean energy revolution in colleges and universities
• Green Evolution

Key Accomplishments :

• Enrolled major partners like UNEP, World Bank, Ministry of Youth and Sports, Change Fusion and TERI
• The project concept "Green Evolution" of YES Nepal has been chosen as one of the finalist for Nepalese Young Social Entrepreneurs Competition and YES Leader is now a Change Fusion Fellow.
• Change the Bulb Campaign was successful to reduce the tax levied upon Compact Fluorescent Bulbs to 1 % from 15 %.
• Due to lobbying, Government formed Ministry of Youth and Sports for the first time and are in the process of developing a National Youth Policy.