Events

Celebrating the World Environment Day 2016

The WED 2016 campaign aims to raise awareness of the far-reaching nature of wildlife crime and – with the slogan “Go Wild for Life” – encourages people to change their habits to reduce demand for illegal wildlife products, and to press everyone to do what they can to stop the trade.

International Workshop on ‘Benefit Sharing in Hydropower: Examples from Nepal and implications for other countries in the Hindu Kush Himalayas’

This workshop is designed to bring the discussion of benefit sharing from hydropower development to the forefront of policy discourse among relevant stakeholders in Nepal, including communities, power projects, civil society organisations, and the government. This will also draw from experiences of other policymakers and practitioners from the regional and global level.

Knowledge Forum on Climate Resilient Development in the Himalayan and Downstream Regions

Regional Workshop on ‘REDD+ Safeguards for Himalayas’

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) Safeguards are procedures and approaches that ensure implementation of REDD+ activities by countries do no harm to people and the environment, and simultaneously enhance governance, social and environmental benefits. Addressing and respecting safeguard principles is a prerequisite for receiving performance based REDD+ payments.

Spring Recharge Interventions in Dailekh

The main objective of the ToT was to enhance participants’ knowledge and skills regarding improved approaches to springwater management, and to enable them to implement springshed management approaches themselves.