ForestAction hosted a national workshop of the NGO group on Climate Change in collaboration with LI-BIRD in Kathmandu on April 19, 2009. Main objective of this workshop were to share the updates of the NGO group on Climate Change Network, affairs relating to climate change adaptation, state of art in Nepal, REDD concept, its updates and challenges, climate change policy processes and role of civil society, as well as working strategies to increase the effectiveness of NGO group. Despite the members of the group, officials from the Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation also took part in this workshop