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Annual Reports

What the Foundation set out to do each year, what was achieved, and the action plan for the year that followed. Reports since 2023, and the Zunpha cooperative’s alongside.

Annual Reports

Read about our impact and progress.

Our report encompasses progress made so far.

2025Annual report, PDF, pages 1 to 5

A year of growth and consolidation

The Foundation moved from a field organisation to a facilitating institution, connecting communities with policy processes, technical agencies, and markets. Interventions ran under four priorities: strengthening Community Conserved Areas (CCAs), restoration and afforestation, nature-based livelihoods, and environmental awareness among youth.

  • Chief Executive appointed Chair of the National Working Group on Community Conserved Areas for 2025 to 2027
  • MoUs for a 30-hectare Afforestation, Reforestation, and Restoration pilot in 2026, envisioned to scale to 10,000 hectares, and for 160,000 native trees over 220 hectares with TERI
  • Management Collaboration Agreement with the Sendenyu community; Eye of Tomorrow Initiative inaugurated on November 29, 2025
  • Kenono Coffee launched on World Coffee Day, October 1, 2025; MoU with NABARD for Hills of Hope, starting 2026
Read the 2025 report
2024Annual report, PDF, pages 6 to 10

The foundational year

The flagship Strengthening Community Biodiversity Conservation project reached 2,328 households across 10 villages, communities documented 30 CCA sites for the CCA portal, and the Sendenyu Biodiversity Education Experience Centre opened on May 9, 2024, as Nagaland’s first intergenerational hub for biodiversity education.

  • 10,696 people in 10 villages actively managing conserved areas across 10,000 to 15,000 hectares
  • 1.5 tonnes of Arabica procured from 14 villages for about 50 farmers under Tseminyu and Coffee: A Brewing Tango
  • Community Forest Rights meeting for the Western Rengma held on July 29, 2024
  • Feasibility study for the Forest Futures carbon project under way
Read the 2024 report
2023Annual report, PDF, pages 11 to 14

The first full year in the field

The Strengthening Community Conserved Areas in Nagaland project began on the ground, supported by The Nature Conservancy with Kalpavriksh, LEMSACHENLOK, and Strand Life Sciences as implementing partners, and defined the Foundation’s footprint across seven districts.

  • Tseminyu District Green Initiatives formed as a multi-stakeholder platform with community institutions, the church, civil society, and Government
  • Coffee value chain assessed: over 200 farmers and 3.2 lakh plants across the district; first roasted coffee, Sendenyu Estate, launched at Hornbill
  • Biodiversity education and ecotourism initiative started with Ground-up Conservation
Read the 2023 report
Zunpha Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd.

The cooperative that promoted the Foundation.

Zunpha MPCS Ltd. reports to its members at the Annual General Meeting. The 2024–25 report and the action plan for 2025–26 were adopted at the meeting held in Zunpha on January 23, 2025.

2024–25AGM resolution, annual report, and action plan, PDF, 4 pages

Expanding the enterprise units, strengthening systems

A new Artifex Ka retail outlet in Tseminyu town, the carpentry unit revived after a year and a half, Zunpha Premium Eggs on shelves in Kohima, and lessons from a difficult year in poultry. The action plan sets production targets for 2025–26 and a plan to make the cooperative a training resource agency.

  • Over 100 visitors hosted for exposure visits; represented at the India PACS Meet in New Delhi and the Nagaland State Credit Seminar
  • Standard operating procedures for poultry health, a CRM system, and a prototype website introduced
  • Resolved to build in-house coffee roasting capacity so farmers are paid above the prevailing market rate
Read the report
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