This Siemenpuu cooperation programme funds the South Asian Dialogues on Ecological Democracy (SADED) network as an end recipient. SADED and Siemenpuu have cooperated since 2002. The Service Centre for Development Cooperation (Kepa), one of the Siemenpuu founding organisations, had earlier links with SADED.

The Siemenpuu support to SADED is approximately 70 000 euros this year.

SADED forms part of the international Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (VK) network, which promotes dialogue on different aspects of democracy. SADED focuses on its ecological viewpoints.

SADED aims to:

• Prevent the escalation of crises rooted in the ecological situation in different zones and the use of natural resources in South Asia, particularly Nepal and Pakistan,
• Strengthen aspirations related to ecological democracy in environmentally vulnerable zones,
  
• Provide support to different groups of civil society for deepening interaction, search of information as well as sharing of local environmental knowledge,
  
• Search models to develop local and global democracy for it to provide better answers to the challenges posed by environmental problems.
  

SADED´s structure and mode of action:

• SADED is not a formal organisation nor a closed circle of actors,
• Many researchers, civil society activists, NGOs and social movements function within SADED,
  
• It organises lectures, meetings, workshops and seminars as well as produces publications,
  
• Those involved in SADED also participate in external events and related to ecological democracy,
  
• Within India the network has activities mainly in Delhi, Uttarakhand, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Bihar and Andhra Pradesh,
  
• Administratively, the programme functions as a project of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), an Indian development studies institute.
  
• The SADED projects have been divided into two subgroups: 1) dialogues and 2) resource centre.
  

In 2009 SADED focuses on the following themes:

• Himalayan Swaraj (self governance) campaign. The programme relies on grass-root level activities being carried out in the state of Uttarakhand together with a fellowship programme.
• The ecology and dignity of the informal majority’s life entailing a modest consumption level. This sub-programme studies the dimensions of poverty and factors influencing it as well as the life of the informal sector; the casteless, poor city dwellers, the landless of the countryside and the artisans from the viewpoint of ecological democracy.
  
• Issues related to the survival of the indigenous peoples as well as the sustainable models of ways of life inspired by their ways of life and the ecological swaraj.
  
• Welfare, climate change and justice.
  
• Acting in the principles of Gandhian ideology.
  
• Water and the possibilities of retaining diversified agricultural practices. The programme focuses on issues such as action to safeguard access to and quality of water, traditional forms of water collection and conservation, structures of agricultural trade and the relation between agriculture and survival of forests.
  
• The international dialogue on ecological democracy. The programme has mainly consisted in participating in the World Social Forum, through which environmental concerns have gained a higher prominence in the Social Forum process.