The basin-South Asia Members

	Aga Khan Planning and Building Services, Pakistan works to improve the built environment through technical assistance and construction management services.

	Auroville Earth Institute aims to research, develop, promote and transfer earth-based technologies which are cost and energy effective.

	Coastal Area Disaster Mitigation Efforts, India is a network of twenty voluntary organisations working for disaster preparedness of Fishing Communities in India.

	Development Professionals’ Forum (DPF) is a team of Social Architects, Civil Engineers andPlanners. They work in the field of Disaster Risk Reduction, Planning & Infrastructure Development, Designing, guiding and monitoring post-disasters Shelter and WASH (Water-Sanitation) Rehabilitation programmes, Integrating Housing/ Habitat development with Livelihoods and promoting Sustainable Architecture & Appropriate Technology Transfer across India

	Exnora International, India works as a catalyst in bringing about local initiative and community participation in overall improvement in the quality of life.

	Grambangla Unnayan Committee Bangladesh is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation working for people affected by extreme poverty, exclusion and disease.

	Knowledge Works believes that knowledge works!! They believe that access to knowledge of right habitat solutions at the right time is necessary for building owners to choose from options that are responsive to their needs, safe and environmentally sustainable.

	Leadership for Environment And Development (LEAD), Pakistan is a non-profit organisation working since 1995 to create and sustain a global network of leaders who are committed to promote development that is economically sound, environmentally responsible and socially equitable in line with Agenda 21.

	Maithri is supporting Panchayati Raj institutions for developing perspective plans on basic need fulfillment and natural resource management through capacity building processes

	National Centre for People’s Action in Disaster Preparedness, India is striving to bring sustainable technologies to help people reduce their vulnerability against future disasters.

	Practical Action, Bangladesh, Nepal & Sri Lanka work with poor communities to develop appropriate technologies in food production, energy, transport, shelter and disaster mitigation.

	Sewalanka Foundation is a registered non-profit organisation that enhances the capacity of rural communities to democratically identify and address their own development needs and provide services that contribute economically, viable, socially just and ecologically sustainable development.

	Society of Environmental Journalists-Nepal, is an non-profit national level NGO established by a group of young professionals from different fields with an objective to mobilise and promote people's participation in the country's development .

	Tarayana Foundation, Bhutan, is a non-profit organisation working to uplift and enhance the lives of vulnerable individuals and communities in Bhutan. Tarayana complements and supplements the efforts of the Royal Government in poverty reduction by espousing the national goal, Bhutan 2020: A Vision for Peace, Prosperity and Happiness.

	The Climate Change and Development Division of the Embassy of Switzerland, New Delhi is part of the Global Programme on Climate Change, focusing on issues of common interests between India and Switzerland. Their current portfolio of programmes includes Global Programme on Climate Change.

	Trust for Village Self Governance, India is a charitable trust focusing on local self governance in villages for creating sustainable employment through habitat development

	Development Alternatives is a not-for-profit sustainable development enterprise that designs and promotes programmes and products which, through the use of alternative technology, contribute to the enrichment of human life.

	Gram Vikas, India is a rural development organisation, working with poor and marginalised communities of Orissa since 1979 making sustainable improvements in the quality of life.

	Unnati is a non-governmental organisation working over the last 15 years for “civic leadership promotion and strengthening local self governance.