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Circular and Green Economy for Environmental Restoration in Nepal (GREEN)

This Initiation Plan has been developed to achieve national priorities set by the Government of Nepal (15th Development Plan) and UNDP Country Program Document (2023-2027) on environmental management and sustainable livelihoods. This will be attained through different collective methods that includes i) portfolio approach on circularity and green economy; ii) research and development; and iii) co-financing innovative initiatives of Accelerator Lab in Nepal. The Initiation Plan aims to explore integrated approach to create synergy between different programmatic interventions on achieving common goals related to healthy and sustainable future directly contributing to 12 out of 17 SDGs. There are four specific objectives that this initiation plan fosters to structure, to be followed by detail project document after monitoring the progress within the next 18 months. (1). Enhance and scale integrated technologies and innovation on circularity and green economy through policy driven, community-led and economically