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Adaptation and Resilience Building
These solutions on building resilience provide valuable information about approaches and technologies that can inform communities, practitioners, decision makers and governments alike.
The solutions presented here are informed by a transdisciplinary approach. All the solutions are derived from knowledge co-created with stakeholders who will benefit from and sustain a particular intervention. Most of the solutions have been piloted and tested. They allow for feedback from society to science and back to society, thus ensuring a healthy mutuality between experts and beneficiaries.
Improved rainwater harvesting systems at household and community levels with larger storage capacity were demonstrated...
The terracing technology is a combination of vegetative and structural measures that address the
Payment for ecosystem services (PES) is recognized as a tool for sustaining ecosystem service flows while also contributing to the livelihoods of...
Poverty and male outmigration are affecting lives in far western Nepal, especially that of women (around 50 percent). Inaccessibility of location...
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Resilience building is a pre-requisite to achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the HKH. The development of simple, easily replicable, affordable, local solutions can go a long way towards addressing the challenges arising from the complexity and dynamism of the mountain context.
Jholmal is a homemade bio-fertilizer and bio-pesticide prepared by mixing and fermenting in a defined ratio locally available...
The terracing technology is a combination of vegetative and structural measures that address the...
Pollination services provided by honeybees and beekeeping help improve the livelihoods and food security of mountain people...
Mountains offer economic opportunities in the form of niche products that are low-volume,...
Key factors and conditions
ICIMOD’s resilience-building framework suggests that interventions at the community level need to account for multiple combinations of factors (i.e., there is no single silver bullet), as determined by local conditions. This tailored approach informs the designing and implementation of solutions presented in this site.
Drip irrigation is a water-efficient irrigation system. It essentially entails dripping water to individual plant root zones at low rates (2.25l/hr) from emitters embedded in...
The Resilient Mountain Village (RMV) approach offers simple and affordable solutions for mountain farmers to adapt...
Outmigration of men requires women to acquire new skills, capacities, and knowledge to deal with new challenges,...
Under HI-AWARE, ICIMOD partner the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS) conducted research in the Teesta floodplain...
Scaling ‘up’ and scaling ‘out’ challenge
A solution’s ultimate success is the degree to which it is ‘scaled up’ (taken from local levels to national and international levels, either through practice, policy, or procedure) or ‘scaled out’ (taken to a wider area or other sectors). Solution pilots have played an important role in ICIMOD’s experience because key policy and practice actors are often motivated by demonstrable evidence.
Climate change-related heat stress is believed to be one of the greatest threats to human health. Poor people in particular are at high...
In the Letmaungkwe Hill Tracts of Southern Shan State, Myanmar, bamboo is an important non-timber forest product for local livelihoods and for the environment.
Floods in north Bihar are a recurring disaster, which annually take thousands of human lives, apart from killing livestock and destroying assets worth millions.
With an increasing number of mobile users among mountain communities, sending messages through mobile phones has become one of the most...
