Highland festival brings Pakistan and China region together

Along the border of China and Pakistan, some fifteen thousand feet above sea level at Khunjerab pass, more than 5,000 ...

Enabling the most vulnerable to adapt to climate change

‘We lose sleep when it starts raining…’, said a community member in Saptari district, Nepal voicing a common concern of ...

Academic Collaboration in Hindu Kush Himalaya Reinforced HKH Universities Sign a New Charter for Collaboration and Development

Increasing migration from the hills: remittance and increased resilience

Just as in the other hilly districts of Nepal, the out-migration by the youths in Nuwakot, mainly by the male ...

Juggling ‘two fronts’ – the women of today

Women are increasingly getting an education in underdeveloped/developing countries, despite this by no means being the norm (for example, according ...

National Consultation on Needs Assessment for SERVIR-HKH in Afghanistan

  A national consultation workshop on a needs assessments for SERVIR-HKH was organized in Kabul from 14–15 December 2015 by ICIMOD in collaboration ...

Hope for Kyaung Taung’s water woes

The village of Kyaung Taung in the Inle Lake area in Myanmar sits atop a hill overlooking Heho city. And ...

Greening Barren Land: Facilitating Irrigation and Agricultural Activity in Upper Hunza, Pakistan

WWF-Pakistan plans to experiment with solar pumps and hydro ramp pumps, and install drip irrigation equipment and sprinkles to pump ...