Back to success stories

Nurturing collaborative cryospheric work

70% Complete

CryoHub creates a thriving online community of stakeholders from government, academia, and NGOs

Nurturing collaborative cryospheric work

Researchers and other stakeholders interested in the cryosphere come together in the HKH CryoHub, a collaborative web-based platform that enables access to and sharing of cryospheric data from ongoing, published and archival data. Research partners from across Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal and Pakistan are particularly active but the CryoHub reaches beyond traditional partnerships to create a thriving online community of cryosphere stakeholders including practitioners from government, academia, and NGOs whose unique insights are helping to fill longstanding data gaps and improving our ability to understand the cryospheric changes we are witnessing across the HKH. The CryoHub shares data generated by ICIMOD and partners and provides metadata on historical and other data to ensure more easy linkages between data and users. A regular “researchers in the spotlight” segment gives individual researchers visibility and helps the community to identify colleagues with similar or compatible interests and skillsets, nurturing collaborations.

With rapid glacier melt in the HKH, data accessibility is crucial to collaborative transboundary research that can help us understand the dynamics and risks in this critically important region.

Chapter 6

Facilitating regional cooperation

Planning for the Future

Modelling tools determine future water availability and demand and have the potential to help planners and decision makers

2 Dec 2019 Water
The Changing Times

A study finds that while environmental conditions in the Koshi basin are changing, constraints are keeping communities from fully adopting ...

Oxfam in Nepal and ICIMOD join hands with communities to manage flood risk in Nepal

Climate change has altered the frequency and intensity of extreme events and increased the vulnerability of communities to ...

The Power of Working Across Boundaries

Research suggests that a cooperative, river basin approach to water resources management can be beneficial to all countries In the Koshi ...

Working to Avoid a Disaster

A project along the China-Nepal border aims to reduce the risk of disaster and to become an example of cross-border ...

Local stakeholders in the Koshi basin receive training on WUMP facilitation

A four-day training on Water Use Master Plans (WUMPs) facilitation was jointly organized by HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation and ICIMOD at ...

3 Dec 2019 HI-AWARE
Rethinking the Relationship Between Resources

ICIMOD research argues that a 'nexus approach' should be incorporated into future climate change adaptation strategies As ...

3 Dec 2019 Water
In Search of More Time

Community-based flood early warning systems will help communities in the Koshi basin better prepare for a flood