What can the past teach us about the future?

Breaking the bottlenecks: Managing multi-hazard risks in the hydropower sector

The Hydropower Transboundary Working Group (TWG) under the Koshi Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Hub (KDKH) organised a ...

Why China should Include a Gender Perspective in its Climate Change Policies

In Haitang, off-farm wage labour outside the community has, for some years, been an important income-generating strategy. As the drought ...

Managing Systems Under Stress: Solutions Presented at Third Indus Basin Knowledge Forum

Speaking at the event, David Molden, Director General of ICIMOD, spoke of the challenges mountain communities face—climate change, environmental degradation, ...

National consultation on freshwater ecosystem assessment handbook

To aid Nepal's efforts in considering viability and social, environmental, and cultural impacts while optimizing its hydropower potential, we drafted ...

Benefit Sharing from Hydropower Generation in South Asia

These studies were conducted by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Pakistan; People’s Science Institute (PSI), Dehradun, India; the South ...

Notes from fieldwork on Langtang and Rikha Samba glaciers in Nepal

Fieldwork in the Himalaya

Getting there My heart still skips a beat whenever I recall my first field visit to Rikha Samba Glacier ...

ICIMOD Initiative Helping Watershed Communities in the Koshi Basin Come Together

In the floodplain Bakdhuwa village development committee of Saptari district, eastern Nepal, local communities often face challenges related to water ...