Highlights
10 June 2026 | Kohima, Nagaland
For years, NEPED has worked with communities across Nagaland — building renewable energy infrastructure, supporting community livelihoods, and managing natural resources at the grassroots level. In the same period, NagaEd has worked in Nagaland’s classrooms — building digital learning systems, training teachers, and delivering education programmes to students in some of the state’s most remote districts.
On 10 June 2026, the two organisations signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Kohima, recognising what their years of parallel work had always suggested: they have been moving in the same direction.
The MoU establishes a five-year framework for collaboration across digital education, renewable energy market development, research, capacity building, and community knowledge systems.
“Nagaland’s most powerful solutions are already here — in our people, our knowledge systems, and our communities. What we need are stronger pathways to move that knowledge, those skills, and those opportunities to more people, faster. Our partnership with NEPED is about building exactly that: connecting learning, technology, and local expertise in ways that genuinely serve the next generation.”
— Kevisato Sanyü, Founder, NagaEd
NEPED has worked at the intersection of community development, renewable energy, and natural resource management across Nagaland. CERES represents one of the state’s most significant investments in clean energy research, manufacturing, and training.
NagaEd, founded in Kohima, designs and delivers digital learning systems, training programmes, and technology-enabled solutions that strengthen educational and institutional capacity. Its work spans schools, government programmes, development initiatives, and community-based learning across Northeast India.
The MoU recognises that these strengths are complementary. Together, the two organisations will collaborate in:
“NEPED has always believed that sustainable development must be rooted in the knowledge, skills, and aspirations of local communities. This partnership with NagaEd brings together complementary strengths that will help us strengthen capacity building, knowledge systems, and renewable energy initiatives through CERES. We look forward to creating more opportunities for learning, innovation, and community-led development across Nagaland.”
— Shri Kovi Meyase, NCS, Commissioner & Secretary to the Government of Nagaland and Team Leader, NEPED
Both organisations share a long-standing commitment to serving communities that are often overlooked by mainstream development models. The principles guiding the partnership—community ownership, contextual relevance, transparency, innovation, and sustainability—have shaped the work of both organisations for years.
The MoU formalises this alignment and creates a structured pathway for turning shared values into coordinated action.
About NEPED
The Nagaland Empowerment of People Through Economic Development (NEPED) is a Government of Nagaland initiative focused on community-based natural resource management, renewable energy development, and sustainable livelihoods. NEPED operates the Centre of Excellence for Renewable Energy Studies (CERES) in Dimapur, a facility dedicated to renewable energy research, manufacturing, innovation, and training.
About NagaEd
NagaEd is a digital education and technology company headquartered in Kohima, Nagaland. The organisation develops innovative learning solutions, capacity-building programmes, and digital systems that improve access to quality education and institutional development. NagaEd has supported more than 96,000 learners and trained over 8,000 educators and professionals across Northeast India and beyond.
