Himalayan Resilience Enabling Action Programme
The Himalayan Resilience Enabling Action Programme (HI-REAP) is building climate resilience in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region spanning Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal. This component focuses on promoting nature-based solutions for socio-ecological resilience, low-carbon economies, and improved management of shared resources like water and air.
Communities in the Himalaya are frontline to climate, environmental, and other shocks: extreme weather, floods, avalanches, landslides, droughts, and increasing biodiversity loss and air pollution. These risks are compounding serious existing vulnerabilities, such as food and water insecurity, and exacerbating gender and social inequalities.
HI-REAP is reducing exposure to risks and transforming the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in the region through locally-led action across key sectors.
Implemented by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) headquartered in Kathmandu, HI-REAP is:
- Improving public health and reducing black carbon deposits on the cryosphere by scaling solutions to air pollution.
- Conserving biodiversity, building water security and reducing disaster risk through nature-based management of rangelands and mountain springs.
- Strengthening regional cooperation by building the right policy frameworks, forming strategic partnerships and sharing best practices.
- Promoting gender equality and social inclusion and building ownership at all levels.
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Projects
Agroecology Community Learning Centres (CLCs) as a hub for knowledge exchange
Nepal
Scaling springshed management and other Nature-based Solutions
India
ICIMOD is an intergovernmental knowledge and learning centre leading the global effort to protect the Hindu Kush Himalaya region and the people, resources and culture that define it. Their work strengthens regional cooperation for conservation and sustainable mountain development in their eight regional member countries.
