ICIMOD, in collaboration with its partner organizations - Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA), WWF-Gilgit Baltistan and the Government of Gilgit Baltistan, organized an Upper Indus Basin (UIB) Expert’s Field Visit to Gilgit Baltistan (GB) in April 2014. A group of forty-five participants from ICIMOD Nepal/Pakistan, EV-K2-CNR, WWF Pakistan, University of Bonn, Karakoram International University, and other Pakistani organizations participated in the field visit.The objectives of the field visit were to:
strengthen collaboration between various actors working in the Upper Indus Basin and develop a framework of UIB research,
understand and relate to the impact of climate change on the GB environment, and
explore options to minimize the adverse impacts.
Above all, the purpose of the field visit was to learn about the ground reality of the Upper Indus Basin through first-hand observation and to develop a joint research framework for the Upper Indus Basin based on scientific knowledge.