Back to success stories

Nurturing collaborative cryospheric work

70% Complete

CryoHub creates a thriving online community of stakeholders from government, academia, and NGOs

Nurturing collaborative cryospheric work

Researchers and other stakeholders interested in the cryosphere come together in the HKH CryoHub, a collaborative web-based platform that enables access to and sharing of cryospheric data from ongoing, published and archival data. Research partners from across Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal and Pakistan are particularly active but the CryoHub reaches beyond traditional partnerships to create a thriving online community of cryosphere stakeholders including practitioners from government, academia, and NGOs whose unique insights are helping to fill longstanding data gaps and improving our ability to understand the cryospheric changes we are witnessing across the HKH. The CryoHub shares data generated by ICIMOD and partners and provides metadata on historical and other data to ensure more easy linkages between data and users. A regular “researchers in the spotlight” segment gives individual researchers visibility and helps the community to identify colleagues with similar or compatible interests and skillsets, nurturing collaborations.

With rapid glacier melt in the HKH, data accessibility is crucial to collaborative transboundary research that can help us understand the dynamics and risks in this critically important region.

Chapter 6

Facilitating regional cooperation

A milestone for local water management in the Koshi basin

The local community in Saptari, a district in the Terai region of Nepal, is elated with news that their local ...

Freshwater ecosystem assessment handbook

We are working with the Forest Research and Training Centre, Government of Nepal, on a freshwater ...

Capacity building in using open-source software

Through trainings organised by our Cryosphere, Climate Services, and Himalayan University Consortium initiatives, we have introduced ...

Working to Avoid a Disaster

A project along the China-Nepal border aims to reduce the risk of disaster and to become an example of cross-border ...

Supporting sustainable hydropower development in Nepal

Complex environmental and social impacts must be researched and understood for sustainability

Participatory watershed management in eastern Nepal

Based on long-term commitments through a joint action research project we undertook with the Dhankuta Municipality ...

A sustainable model of community-based flood early warning

Local governments in Nepal are coordinating and investing in disaster preparedness

12 Jul 2021 Cryosphere
Keeping track of glacial lakes

ICIMOD–UNDP report ranks 47 potentially dangerous glacial lakes