Kathmandu University
HNRSC(Human and Natural Resources Studies Center)

Introduction

                  The Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) North-South is one of 20 long-term research programmes implemented by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) in areas of vital strategic importance for the advancement of science. The NCCR North-South is one of them. The NCCR North-South focuses on international research cooperation and promotes high-quality disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research with the aim of contributing to an improved understanding of global change, of the pressures and potentials these changes and their causes exert on different resources (human, natural, economic), and of the responses of different social groups and society as a whole. NCCR identifies the potential of social systems to mitigate problems of global change as well as using emerging opportunities. The NCCR North-South enables Swiss research institutions to enhance partnerships with institutions in developing countries, thereby building the competence and capacity of research on both sides to develop socially robust knowledge for mitigation action.