On Friday March 11, the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and its Nepal partners organised a Nepal-Day knowledge sharing event on Enhancing Climate Resilience and Adaptive Capacity in Nepal. A large number of representatives from the government, diplomatic missions, donor community, and partner organisations took part in the event, including the Vice Chair of the National Planning Commission and ICIMOD Board member, Dr. Jagadish Chandra Pokharel; the Ambassador of Switzerland, Mr. Thomas Gass; Member of the Constituent Assembly, Dr. Arzoo Deuba; Secretary, Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation, Mr. Yubaraj Bhusal; and members of diplomatic and foreign missions in Kathmandu.
In recent years, ICIMOD, with support from its development partners, especially the Governments of Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland, has strengthened its knowledge and capacity in the field of climate change adaptation by jointly designing and launching projects and programmes to deal with issues such as disaster risk reduction, livelihoods diversification, biodiversity conservation, integrated watershed management, and avoidance of deforestation and forest degradation (REDD).
