Welcome to the ECHO Asia Regional Impact Center!

Under the shade of a large raintree, an 80-year-old building on Chiang Mai’s historic McCormick Hospital campus houses the ECHO Asia Regional Impact Center.  With work space on the bottom floor and a small (but growing) resource library housed on the second level, the location serves as a quiet hub for ECHO’s vigorous regional network. 

The ECHO Asia Regional Impact Center seeks to extend the services of ECHO to help those working with the poor in Asia to be more effective, especially in the area of agriculture. The ECHO Asia Regional Impact Centerfunctions primarily as a technical support organization helping community development organizations and workers operate more effectively.

Some of the activities of the ECHO Asia Regional Impact Center include:

• Hosting a biennial regional agriculture and community development conference for development workers
• Facilitating national agriculture and community development meetings throughout Asia
• Offering quarterly ECHO Asia Notes, a regional e-supplement to the ECHO Development Notes, offered in English and regional languages such as Burmese, Thai and Khmer.
• Providing ECHO Asia News which highlights the regional activities of ECHO and offers a forum for partners to share their own activities, opportunities and events.
• Operating a seed bank for the purpose of providing seeds of regionally appropriate crops for development workers.
• Offering periodic courses and workshops related to topics of interest for agricultural development workers in Asia.
• Consulting with regional development agencies.

We invite you to explore this web page for more information about the expanding services of the ECHO Asia Regional Impact Center. 

Please feel free to contact us at echoasia@echonet.org with regard to any technical services or to subscribe to the ECHO Asia Notes and ECHO Asia News.