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Strategic Group: Regional action and global advocacy , Action Area: Regional & HI-REAP
The Soaltee Hotel, Kathmandu, Nepal
18 August 2025 to 19 August 2025
The Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region is increasingly facing severe impacts of climate change, disaster risks, biodiversity loss, and pollution alongside accelerated socio-economic shifts with serious implications to ecosystems, natural resources, livelihoods and human life. Given the significant role of parliamentarians in policymaking, legislation, and shaping public opinion, parliamentarians from the HKH countries can be crucial in advancing the region’s climate action and resilience agenda. However, they need access to essential knowledge and evidence to proactively advance gender equal and social inclusive, pro-planet, pro-mountain, and pro-climate advocacy at the national, regional and global forums. Despite sharing various environmental and socio-economic challenges, the HKH parliamentarians lack a regional platform to discuss their shared challenges and opportunities and identify solutions to address them collectively.
Supported by the United Kingdom International Development (UKID) through its Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) the HKH parliamentarians’ meet 2025 aims to provide an effective platform for members of the parliaments from the HKH countries to come together, access the latest knowledge and information about the HKH region’s issues, challenges and opportunities, share experiences about the best parliamentary practices, and discuss forward-looking policy actions.
This knowledge-sharing and learning event aims to:
Engagement with parliamentarians from the HKH countries will ensure that they are:
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