CEE has been working in the State of Bihar (UP) for the past 12 years. The focus of CEE's work in the state has been environment education in schools, water, health and sanitation, and awareness generation. The Bihar State Pollution Control Board, Bihar Education Project Council (BEP), State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT), UNICEF-Bihar, Bihar Institute of Public Administration and Rural Development (BIPARD), Patna Zoo, Regional Science Centre and 12 partner NGOs, etc are the agencies with which CEE has been working in the state.

Some of the ongoing and important projects in the state are:

Environment Education for School Children

• Strengthening Environment Education in School System (StrEESS)
• Facilitating NGC as a Resource Agency in all 38 districts of the state, with activities spread across 9,500 schools. Providing support in organizing training programmes for master trainers and development of resource material. Conducted school level events and activities on environment related days.
• Organizing school events like competitions, guest lectures, exhibitions etc., on the occasion of World Water Day, World Environment Day, Earth Day, International Ozone Layer Protection Day, and other environmental days.

Water, Health and Sanitation

• Provided support to UNICEF’s SSHE programme in the State. The programme involves training of master trainer and teachers; development of educational material; demonstration in schools etc.

Training, Networking and Capacity building programme

• CEE has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bihar Institute of Public Administration & Rural Development (BIPARD)

Facilitating NGO and Community Initiative

• Guiding and supporting NGOs for developing and implementing projects under the UNDP-GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP – for which CEE is the National Host Institution)