Annual Report 2019 | Chapter 1

Mountain innovations and community practices

Promoting and supporting innovative approaches to address change and build resilience

Chapter 1

Stories

At home in the Far Eastern Himalaya

Homestay tourism under way around Namdapha National Park and Tiger Reserve

Pivoting to clean cooking

Energy-efficient stoves replace open fire cooking in 115 households in Yunnan

Organic agriculture

For mountain communities, engaging youth in agriculture and promoting micro, small and medium enterprises are key pillars supporting organic agriculture

A sustainable model of community-based flood early warning

Local governments in Nepal are coordinating and investing in disaster preparedness

Diversification to reduce risks in large cardamom production

Positioning large cardamom as an HKH mountain niche product will be key to bolstering its global demand

Annual report 2019

Reflecting together over
the past decade

The strategic focus of our work as an institution over the past ten years has been on increasing impact in the areas of poverty reduction, in resilience building and in enhanced ecosystems services.