The Himalayan Resilience Enabling Action Programme (HI-REAP) is an ICIMOD project working to promote Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for socio-ecological resilience, low-carbon economies, and improved air quality in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal, and building on knowledge and learning from China. The programme aims to ensure communities are better prepared to cope with shocks and more able to adapt to change.

Communities in the Himalaya are frontline to climate, environmental, and other shocks: extreme weather, floods, avalanches, landslides, droughts, and increasing biodiversity loss and air pollution.

These risks are already compounding very serious existing socio-economic vulnerabilities, especially food and water insecurity and high levels of outmigration, and exacerbating gender and social inequalities.

HI-REAP is a nine-year programme, funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), to transform the lives and livelihoods, and reduce exposure to risks, of millions of people in the region.

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