Donors, Partners:
- UNICEF: Ships of hope, Dibrugarh District, Assam
- Dibrugarh District administration, Government of Assam (ships of hope)
- Department of Health, Government of Assam
- National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Government of Assam
- Jalan Industries, Dibrugarh, Assam (administrative and logistics support)
- North Eastern Council: support for the NER Peoples’ Vision 2020 document 2005-06 (including a survey of 40,000 households in eight states, the largest in the region) and Colloquium on the North-east, 2004)
- Sir Dorabji Tata Trust: funded a three-year project Livelihoods by the Brahmaputra on dairy farming and boat transport
- Ford Foundation: support for the project on The Brahmaputra, creating livelihoods, promoting conservation: saving the Gangetic dolphin, eco-tourism and livelihoods; dairy, health and income growth
- Ministry of Commerce, Government of India: ongoing detailed study on Look East Policy
- Friedrich Ebert Stiftung: support for workshops in Delhi on the North-east (2004) and seminars/workshops in Assam and Meghalaya on Bangladesh and the North-east (2001 and 2004)
- Planning Commission, Government of India: support for Review of projects on Augmented Drinking Water Supply schemes for Dimapur (Nagaland) and Aizawl (Mizoram); chapter on Inland water transport and connectivity for the Assam State Development Report 2002
- Ministry for the Development for the Northeastern Region, Government of India: support for workshops and seminars in 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 on the Northeast and investment opportunities as well as the Look East Policy, Infrastructure needs and Micro-credit
- Assam Foundation for North America and individual contributors for CNES-Setu National Media Fellowship 2005
- Institute for Developing Economies (JETHRO) of the Ministry of Trade, Japan, for the project: Sub-Regional Relations in The Eastern South Asia: with special focus on India’s North Eastern Region (published as a book, 2005)
- Asian Dialogue Society for conduct of seminars, travel and discussions in Nagaland, Assam and Meghalaya in January 2006 and November 2006 New Delhi and Guwahati on connectivity between the North-east and South East Asia
- Indian Council of Social Science Research: workshop in Bhopal on The North-east (March 2004) and lectures in Shillong, Guwahati and Dibrugarh by Prof. Sumit Ganguly of Indiana University, Bloomington, US, and Prof. Lisa Cliggett of University of Kentucky, Lexington, US (2005)
- World Bank (awarded C-NES a national award for the Ship of Hope concept at the India Development Marketplace in 2004 which kick-started its innovative river-based health program in Assam)
- Population Foundation of India
- Irish Aid Henrich Boll Foundation
- Foundation for Social Transformation (FST)
- OIL India Ltd.
- Numaligarh Refinery Ltd.
Collaborations:
- Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University, US
- Rashtriya Grameen Vikas Nidhi, Guwahati, Assam
- North East Social Trust, Golaghat, Assam
- North East Network, Guwahati, Assam
- Entrepreneurs Associates, Kohima, Nagaland
- Eco-Conservation Society of Sikkim, Gangtok, Sikkim
- Sarva Sikhsha Abhiyan, Guwahati, Assam
- Manipur Centre for Social Studies, Imphal, Manipur
- North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya
- Guwahati University, Guwahati, Assam
- Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, Assam
- Deshbandhu Club, Silchar, Assam:
- Tribal Welfare Society, Aizawl, Mizoram
- Tribal Heritage Society, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh
- Gandhinagar Socioi-Economic Society, Barpeta, Assam
- The Ant, Chirang, Assam
- Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
- Asha Darshan, Nalbari, Assam
- Rural Volunteers Centre, Dhemaji, Assam
- Asociated Gramya Unnayan, Sivasagar, Assam
- Purbashree Society, Goalpara, Assam
- Jagiroad College, Morigaon, Assam
- Purvi Discovery, Dibrugarh, Assam