Leh Nutrition Project
With over 40 years of expertise, Leh Nutrition Project or LNP’s aims to promote a model of sustainable development, conscious of its environment, local people, culture and driven by people's proactive participation.
LNP’s thematic areas include Economy, Society, Environment and Empowerment. Each of them realised with specific program interventions ranging from sustainable livelihoods, youth entrepreneurship support, issues around child, gender and vulnerable groups, strengthening local governance processes, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. Each intervention is designed, developed and implemented with authorities, sectoral agencies, grassroots institutions and local communities.
LNP has pioneered award-winning programs like artificial glaciers, community-based watershed development, solarised passive innovations in sanitation and humanitarian emergency relief efforts in Ladakh.
Our Vision
A well-balanced and a sustainable society powered by people’s participation
Our Mission
Leverage grassroot and top-level partnerships to promote, strengthen and implement development that is conscious of the environment, local people and their culture
Our Journey so far
1978
Save the Children enters Ladakh for emergency relief efforts for floods in the Indus Valley
1988
Leh Nutrition Project (LNP) formally registered
1990
Expansion of efforts in different sectors and areas
1996
Transformation into a holistic organisation with community sustainability as focus
2000
Introduction of award-winning Artificial Glaciers
2010
Collaborative efforts and multi-sectorial partnership development
2020
Building on past successes and future perspectives
Our Approach
At the heart of our existence lies the Core Belief of a sustainable Ladakh. This inspires and informs the four Thematic Areas wherein well-defined Motives drive Program Interventions
LNP’s ‘Sustainability Mandala’ aims to leverage stakeholders horizontally and vertically in different sectors to boost synergies, interdependencies and interrelationships and support the process to achieve sustainability.
Our Impact
5000
Beneficiaries
30
Village covered
100
Trainings
25
Interventions
Team
Our team is well-versed with the demographics of Ladakh, and most members are from Ladakh. There is an excellent understanding of relationship dynamics, a robust community network and rapport with the Governmental line departments. The team is well-balanced in terms of experience and youth members, bringing a range of skills. The senior members of the organisation have been working together for nearly 30 years, and the youth members work in close collaboration with the senior members daily.
Alignment to SDG's
As a grassroot organisation, we seek to align our work with international discourses and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Listed below are the SDG’s that align with LNP's interventions and priorities
