Nepal ICIMOD Day 2010

An ICIMOD-Nepal Day workshop was organised on 5 March, the first day of a two-day event, to share the results of ICIMODs work in Nepal with partners and the development community. Participants were mainly from government ministries and departments, universities, and development and non-government organisations.

ICIMODs Nepalese partners highlighted the activities and achievements of six ongoing joint programmes. The first presentation focused on the increased income achieved by communities in remote hill districts of Nepal from high value niche products such as medicinal plants and beekeeping using a value chain approach. The second described a key pilot study undertaken in Nepal by ICIMOD, FECOFUN and ANSAB on reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). Glacial melting and glacial lakes, and work with the concerned government department and Tribhuvan University, was the subject of the third talk: the inventory of potentially dangerous lakes in Nepal has been refined, with six lakes identified as high priority for investigation, enablin, a more reliable communication of risk to the vulnerable communities. The Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation discussed ICIMOD supported work on participatory and cross-boundary landscape conservation, including regional protected area conservation corridors as in the Sacred Himalayan Landscape (SHL), and the setting up of the regional High Altitude Wetlands Initiative. Range and pasture lands are of critical importance, and the Department of Livestock Services (DLS) of the Ministry of Agriculture, described ICIMODs contribution to the development of Nepals Rangeland Policy, which will soon be implemented. Finally, a major partnership success with IFAD was highlighted by a representative of IFADs Western Upland Poverty Alleviation Project (WUPAP), who described the contributions of ICIMOD to this 11-year project which focuses on technology transfer and market-based livelihood improvement in Nepals 16 western districts and has achieved significant income enhancement with environmental conservation. Read more in the press release http://www.icimod.org/?page=797.

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[Lebonchose]

yay! go icimod and partners!