ICIMOD is organizing a workshop on “Inclusive Disaster Resilience: Amplifying Voice of People with Disabilities”. This first-of-its-kind workshop on #DisasterResilience #Inclusion #Disabilities through #HIGRID project with support from #DFAT Australian Embassy Nepal

Important message from Kavitha Kasyanathan - head of development at Australian Embassy Nepal as we kick off a one-of-a-kind workshop on inclusive #disaster resilience at ICIMOD for the HI-GRID workshop. Arun B Shrestha @saswatasanyal2

“Deep in my heart when I see this landscape I think there is a problem, and I think people should know about it,” DAVID BREASHEARS 1955 - 2024 In Memoriam of one of mountain cryosphere’s most powerful communicators. On this day in 1996, eight climbers tragically lost their

ICIMOD is proud to be among the 80 organizations that together make up the Global Resilience Partnership (GRP). GRP’s new strategy, launching today, focuses on food, finance, and communities in countries in the global south that are most vulnerable to climate change impacts. GRP

📢Consultants roster open ICIMOD's building its consultant roster for 2024-2026. Lend your expertise in climate change, disaster risk reduction & more! For more details: icimod.org/get-involved/v… #ICIMODJobs #ConsultantRoster #JoinOurTeam

Someone's meditation 🧘‍♂️ is an international news but #ManipurFloods is not even a national news. We're literally dying!

There is an urgent need for a united/coordinated approach for transformative initiatives in addressing mountain issues in addition to national efforts, and urgent call to deliver on commitments under the Paris Agreement. #SB60 #mountains

HE Shyam Sharan in the opening of 8th meeting of #HKH High Level Task Force ICIMOD: "We cannot manage rivers, ecosystem or cryosphere loss without regional collaboration." #climateaction #regionalcooperation #globalnetzero

📢 Are you a young woman from the Hindu Kush Himalaya (#HKH) region? Interested in learning about geospatial information technology (#GIT) and Air Quality (AQ) monitoring? #SERVIRHKH Initiative invites you to join the 2024 edition of our training program. Apply Now:

Our rapid assessment of the 21 April 2024 flood from Birendra Tal, west-central Nepal finds that the event was not a typical #GLOF moraine dam breach, but an overflow of lake water from displacement wave triggered by an ice avalanche from Manaslu Glacier. Read the findings here:

Thousands of people were safely evacuated before a flood hit villages along the Khando River on June 26, thanks to a community-based flood early-warning system. There were zero casualties among the at-risk population of over 74,000. ICIMOD has pioneered and scaled these

📄📌MEDIA ADVISORY: Press release on the devastating flood from a glacial lake that struck Thame, a Sherpa village in the Khumbu region of Nepal on Friday. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and communities impacted. The Hindu Kush Himalaya is a global hotspot for

📄📌 PRESS RELEASE: The Austrian Development Agency (ADA) @austriandev and ICIMOD yesterday signed an agreement to advance mountain sustainable development. The strategic partnership was inked by His Excellency Ambassador Friedrich Stift, Managing Director of ADA, and Dr. Pema

3 Million Displaced in India & Bangladesh as Historic Rains Cause Devastating Floods. Cumilla, in the Meghna river basin, recorded 2.5 times its normal monthly rainfall in just three days. Homes, fields, roads, and infrastructure are submerged. Rivers in the Meghna and Ganges

ICIMOD at the inaugural session of Consultation Workshop on Outcome of first pilot for Asian Development Bank’s BARHKH program where DDG Izabella Koziell stressed on the importance of emerging risk scenarios and a need for understanding and monitoring cascading hazards in HKH