Mountain People Adapting to Change

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Kathmandu, Nepal
Ministry of Science Technology
and Environment, Nepal
9–12 November 2014
International Conference on
Mountain People
Adapting to Change
Solutions Beyond Boundaries Bridging
Science, Policy, and Practice
Contents
Background and theme
1
Conference programme
2
Session Briefs
7
[High-Level Leadership Panel] Managing Change
7
[Plenary] Adding Knowledge and Evidence
8
[Parallel Sessions] Moving from climate observations to scientific understanding
in the HKH context
9
–– [Parallel B] Emerging Concerns
10
–– [Parallel C] Predicting Uncertainties
11
[Parallel Sessions] Bridging local and global knowledge to improve livelihoods in
changing landscapes
12
–– [Parallel A] Sustaining the Mountains
12
–– [Parallel B] A Fine Balance
13
–– [Parallel C] Vulnerability and Resilience
14
[Plenary] Consolidating Knowledge
15
[Plenary] Enhancing Compatibility
16
[Parallel Sessions] Engaging actors from the periphery of adaptation policy
discussions
17
–– [Parallel A] Insurance and Risk Mitigation Strategies
17
–– [Parallel B] Transboundary River Basins
18
–– [Parallel C] From Mountain to Mountain
19
[Plenary] Connecting the Dots
20
[Plenary] In Practice
21
[Parallel Sessions] Applying lessons from science and policy in local contexts
22
–– [Parallel A] Climate-Smart Strategies
22
–– [Parallel B] Adaptation in Action
23
–– [Parallel C] Adding Value
24
[Concluding High-Level Policy Panel] Getting Mountains on the Global Agenda
2
9
–– [Parallel A] Questions of Scale
25
Session design guide
26
List of marketplace presenters
28
Speaker profiles
29
List of participants
65
General information for participants
71
Venue map
74
Map of Kathmandu City
75
Sites of conference visits
76
Conference team
77
Cover photo: Nabin Baral
Background and theme
Background
As the source of ten of Asia’s major river systems, the Hindu Kush Himalayas provide water,
ecosystem services, and livelihoods to more than 210 million people. The region is also a source of
water for more than 1.3 billion people – a fifth of the world’s population – living in downstream river
basins. Climate change and other changes have already begun to impact ecosystems and
communities across the region, as well as those downstream. Traditional adaptation techniques,
which have supported people in mountain areas for centuries, are no longer able to keep up with
the rapid pace of change.
To effectively support communities in adapting to change, solutions must be developed that look
beyond political, sectoral, and national boundaries. It also requires in-depth knowledge of both
local conditions and broader global climate change trends. Although new reports such as ‘Climate
Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability’ recently released by the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have provided fresh insight, there are still gaps in our knowledge
about how climate change is affecting and will continue to affect the Hindu Kush Himalayan region.
The Mountain People Adapting to Change Conference aims to fill some of these knowledge gaps by
bringing together over 200 experts and stakeholders from around the globe, including government
representatives and high-level dignitaries from the Hindu Kush Himalayas, for discussion and debate
on the status of adaptation. The Conference will approach climate change adaptation in the Hindu
Kush Himalayas from a holistic perspective, seen in the context of other change processes and in
relation to changes in mountain areas around the globe. By drawing together the latest knowledge,
policies, and practices on adaptation, the Conference aims to strengthen the interface between
science, policy, and practice and improve communication for adaptation to change in the Hindu
Kush Himalayan region and downstream.
Conference Philosophy
The philosophy and ambition of the conference is to explore new ideas and new solutions and to fill
knowledge gaps. There will be a mix of shorter formal presentations and dialogue with and among
participants. All sessions will encourage conversations that are interactive, dynamic, and progressive.
The overall theme of Mountain People Adapting to Change will be explored through three thematic
pillars: Adaptation Science, Adaptation Policy and Action, and Adaptation Practice and Solutions.
These pillars are inextricably interlinked. Within each thematic pillar, there are two plenary sessions
and two parallel sessions that will explore topics in varying levels of depth.
Session Briefs
Most sessions will be conducted as informed dialogues. For each session, there is a short concept
brief outlining the key message and questions that frame the session. These briefs are available both
in this booklet (see p. 44) and for download from the conference website. With the briefs we
endeavour to enable conversations that focus on solutions rather than problems.
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Conference programme
Day 1: 9 November 2014 (Sunday) – Inauguration and High-Level Leadership Panel
Morning
Visit to ICIMOD Knowledge Park (optional)
14:00–15:00
[Inaugural Session] Mountain People Adapting to Change: Solutions Beyond Boundaries
Bridging Science, Policy, and Practice
Master of Ceremonies: Naina Shakya, ICIMOD
Welcome and setting the agenda: David Molden, ICIMOD
Welcome by Co-organizer: Krishna Chandra Paudel, Ministry of Science, Technology, and
Environment, Nepal
Lighting of the lamp
Adaptation issues in the HKH: Eklabya Sharma, ICIMOD
Address from ICIMOD’s BOG: Govind Raj Pokharel, Vice Chair, Nepal Planning Commission
Address from Chief Guest: Rt. Hon’ble Sushil Koirala, Prime Minister, Nepal
About the Conference and Vote of Thanks: Nand Kishor Agrawal, ICIMOD
15.00–17:00
[High-Level Leadership Panel] Managing Change: Challenges of translating knowledge
into adaptation policy and action in the mountains
Moderator: David Molden, ICIMOD
Panellists:
Christiana Figureres, UNFCCC [via video]
Murtaza Javed Abbasi, Deputy Speaker, National Assembly of Pakistan
Mohammad Arif Noorzai, Minister of Energy and Water, Afghanistan
Tarun Vijay, Member of Parliament, India
Jigmi Rinzin, Member of Parliament, National Council of Bhutan
Krishna Chandra Paudel, Secretary, Ministry of Science, Technology, and Environment, Nepal
Fabrizio Bresciani, IFAD
NBK Tripura, Secretary, Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs, Bangladesh
17:00 onwards
High Tea
Day 2: 10 November 2014 (Monday) – Adaptation Science
08:45–09:00
[Introductory Address] Solutions Beyond Boundaries: Climate change as a challenge to and
opportunity for development
Speaker: Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu, Member of Parliament; former Union Minister, India
09:00–10:30
[Plenary – Formal Panel] Megha-Malhar Hall
Adding Knowledge and Evidence: Strengthening regional knowledge beyond IPCC Assessment
Reports
Chair: Kristin Halvorsen, CICERO; former Minister of Finance and of Education, Norway
Keynote: Dipak Gyawali, NWCF; former Minister of Water Resources of Nepal
Panellists:
Atiq Rahman, Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies
N.H. Ravindranath, Indian Institute of Science
Anand Patwardhan, University of Maryland
Arun B. Shrestha, ICIMOD
Session Host: Nand Kishor Agrawal
10.30–11:00
2
Tea
11:00–12:30
[Parallel Sessions] Moving from climate observations to scientific understanding in the
HKH context
[Dialogue Café]
[Interactive Panel]
[Interactive Panel]
Mehga Hall
Malhar Hall
Malshree Hall
Questions of Scale: Applying
global and regional climate
scenarios to HKH basins
Emerging Concerns: Black
carbon and the cryosphere
Predicting Uncertainties: The
challenges of disaster
preparedness
Chair: Asit K. Biswas (Third
World Centre for Water
Management)
Keynote: Tobias Bolch,
University of Zurich
Keynote: N.H. Ravindranath
(Indian Institute of Science)
Panellists:
Liu Suxia, IGSNRR
Christopher Scott, University
of Arizona
Chair: Svante Bodin, ICCI
Panellists:
Arnico Panday, ICIMOD
Cong Zhiyuan, ITP
Maria Shahgedanova,
University of Reading
Session Host: Arun B. Shrestha
Chair: V.K. Gaur, Council of
Scientific and Industrial
Research
Keynote: Anil K Sinha, Bihar
SDMA
Panellists:
Anand Sharma, Indian
Meteorological Dept.
Mats Eriksson, SIWI
Salmanuddin Shah, FOCUS
Pakistan
Bob van Oort, CICERO
Session Host: Philippus Wester
Session Hosts: MSR Murthy
and Neera Shrestha-Pradhan
12:30–13:30
Lunch
13:30–15:00
[Parallel Sessions] Bridging local and global knowledge to improve livelihoods in
changing landscapes
[Interactive Panel]
[Interactive Panel]
[Dialogue Café]
Malshree Hall
Malhar Hall
Mehga Hall
Sustaining the Mountains:
Ensuring food security
through flexible production
systems
A Fine Balance: Connecting
community and ecosystembased adaptation
Vulnerability and Resilience:
Integrating science with
marginalized groups’
responses to change
Chair: N. B. Kishore Tripura,
Government of Bangladesh
Chair: Sara Ahmad, IDRC
Keynote: Tor Aase, CICERO
Keynote: Xu Jianchu, ICRAF/
KIB
Keynote: Ganesh Thapa,
former IFAD
Panellists:
Panellists:
Panellists:
Golam Rasul, ICIMOD
Rajendra P. Agarwalla, Govt
of Assam
A. Nambi Appadurai, WRI
Babar Khan, WWF-Pakistan
Su Yufang, KIB
Nina Homelin, CICERO
Feng Yan, AIRC
Chencho Norbu, MoAF
Session Host: Abid Hussain
15:00–15:30
Chair: V. K. Bahuguna, Govt of
Tripura
Luis Waldmueller, GIZ
Wu Ning, ICIMOD
Session Host: Laxmi D. Bhatta
Elizabeth Gogoi, CDKN
Suruchi Bhadwal, TERI
Session Hosts: Chanda Gurung
Goodrich and Anjal Prakash
Tea
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15:30-17:00
[Dialogue Café] Megha-Malhar Hall
Consolidating Knowledge: Adaptation science for holistic perspectives in upstream and
downstream contexts
Chair: Roland F. Steurer, GIZ Nepal
Panellists: Parallel session chairs (6) present one/two key issues from their sessions
Asit K Biswas, Third World Centre for Water Management
Svante Bodin, ICCI
V. K. Gaur, CSIR, India
N. B. Kishore Tripura, Govt of Bangladesh
V. K. Bahuguna, Govt of Tripura, India
Sara Ahmad, IDRC
Session Host: Rajan Kotru
18:00
onwards
Cultural Evening followed by Reception Dinner
Day 3: 11 November 2014 (Tuesday) – Adaptation Policy and Action
08:45–10:30
[Plenary – Interactive Panel] Megha-Malhar Hall
Enhancing Compatibility: Connecting National Adaptation Plans with global strategies
Chair: Sikander Hayat Khan Bosan, Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research,
Pakistan
Keynote: Atiq Rahman, Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies
Panellists:
Rojina Manandhar, UNFCCC
Arabinda Mishra, TERI University
Vijaya Singh, UNDP-Nepal
Batu Uprety, Least Developed Countries Expert Group
Session Host: Dhrupad Choudhury
10:30–11:00
Tea
11:00–12:30
[Showcase] Voices of the Future: Innovative solutions from regional organizations and
presentations from the next generation of change-makers
12:30–13:30
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Innovative Solutions Marketplace: Over 20
organizations from HKH countries will
demonstrate/showcase their work
20 young professionals selected out of about 100
submissions from HKH countries will present
posters on adaptation solutions
Marketplace team: Naina Shakya, Laxmi B.
Dutta, Bhawana Syangden, Neera ShresthaPradhan
Poster session judges: Rucha Ghate, Muhammad
Ismail, Deo Raj Gurung, T. V. Padma
Lunch
13:30–15:00
[Parallel Sessions] Engaging actors from the periphery of adaptation policy discussions
[Interactive Panel]
[Interactive Panel]
[Dialogue Café]
Malshree Hall
Malhar Hall
Megha Hall
Insurance and Risk Mitigation
Strategies: Ensuring recovery
after climate-induced loss
Transboundary River Basins:
Management and benefit
sharing as an adaptation
mechanism
From Mountain to Mountain:
Lessons for the HKH from
other regions
Chair: [TBC]
Keynote: SVRK Prabhakar,
IGES
Panellists:
Mohammad Rafiqul Islam,
Planning Commission,
Bangladesh
Chair: Anil Sinha, Bihar SDMA
Chair: Basanta Shrestha,
ICIMOD
Keynote: Asit K. Biswas, Third
World Centre for Water
Management
Keynote: Yuri Badenkov,
Russian Academy of Science
Panellists:
Manfred Seebauer, GIZ
Mats Eriksson, SIWI
Panellists:
Giovanna Gioli, University
of Hamburg
Ramesh Vaidya, ICIMOD
Lawrence Hislop,
GRID-Arendal
Eddy Moors, WUR
Sandhya Rao, IIT-Delhi
Janine Kuriger, SDC
Gyanendra Lal Pradhan,
Hydro Solutions
Saskia Werners,
Wageningen University
Session Hosts: Aditi Mukherji
and Shahriar Wahid
Session Host: Erling Valdemar
Holmgren
Anamika Barua,
SaciWaters
Session Host: Nand Kishor
Agrawal
15:00–15:30
Tea
15:30–17:00
[Dialogue Café] Megha-Malhar Hall
Connecting the Dots: Translating science to policy through effective communication
Moderator: Anne Solgaard, GRID-Arendal
Keynote: Ashok Gurung, China India Institute
Panellists:
Kunda Dixit, Himal Media
Batu Uprety, Least Developed Countries Expert Group
Mona Laczo, BBC Media Action
Trude Rauken, CICERO
Aditi Mukherji, ICIMOD
Session Host: Anja Møller Rasmussen
17:00
onwards
Kathmandu by Night: Optional evening walks through historic and cultural areas of the city
(Patan Durbar Square)
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Day 4: 12 November 2014 (Wednesday) – Adaptation Practice and Solutions
08:45–10:30
[Plenary – Interactive Panel] Megha-Malhar Hall
In Practice: Integrating adaptation knowledge into development
Chair: Murtaza Javed Abbas, Deputy Speaker, National Assembly of Pakistan
Keynote: Hari K. Upadhyay, CEAPRED
Panellists:
Mohammad Rafi Qazizada, MAIL, Afghanistan
Sunil Tankha, International Institute of Social Studies
Frank Laczko, International Organization for Migration
Bernard Cantin, International Development Research Centre, CARIAA
Muhammad Hashim Popalzai, Pakistan Ministry of National Food Security and Research
Session Hosts: Dhrupad Choudhury and Erling Valdemar Holmgren
10:30–11:00
Tea
11:00–12:30
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[Parallel Sessions] Applying lessons from science and policy to local contexts
[Dialogue Café]
Malhar Hall
Climate-Smart Strategies:
Large and small-scale
innovations and services for
changing climates
Chair: Yang Yongping, KIB
Keynote: Pramod Kumar
Aggarwal, CGIAR CCAFS
Panellists:
MSR Murthy, ICIMOD
Raminder Singh, RML
Partha J. Das, Aaranyak
Dong Suocheng, CAS
Session Host: Suman Bisht
[Interactive Panel]
Malshree Hall
Adaptation in Action: Indigenous,
existing, and emerging practices
for managing livelihoods
Chair: Eklabya Sharma, ICIMOD
Keynote: Bernard Cantin, IDRC
Panellists:
Pushkin Phartiyal, CHEA
Veronika Utz, GIZ Pakistan
San Win, Myanmar University
of Forestry
Madhav Karki, Former ICIMOD
Session Host: Soumyadeep
Banerjee
[Dialogue Café]
Megha Hall
Adding Value: Promoting
climate resilient livelihoods
and value chains
Chair: T.S. Papola, ISID
Keynote: Suraj Vaidhya,
SAARC CCI
Panellists:
Anu Joshi, ICIMOD
Pankaj Raturi, Dabur
K. Murali, IDRC
Pradip Maharjan,
FNCCI
Session Host: Marjorie van
Strien
12:30–1:30
Lunch and Networking
13:30–15:30
[Concluding Plenary – High-Level Policy Panel] Megha-Malhar Hall
Getting Mountains on the Global Agenda: Mapping the way forward
Facilitator: David Molden, ICIMOD
Summary of the conference: Ganesh Thapa, former IFAD
Panellists [TBC}:
Govind Raj Pokharel, Vice Chair, Npeal Planning Commission
Mohammad Arif Noorzai, Minister, Afghanistan
Jigmi Rinzin, Member of Parliament, Bhutan
Gowher Rizvi, Advisor to PM, Bangladesh
Jamie McGoldrick, UN Resident Coordinator, Nepal
Rojina Manandhar, Representative, UNFCCC
Arjun Thapa, Secretary General, SAARC
Malik Shakhir Bashir Awan, Member, National Assembly of Pakistan
16:15–17:17
Media Briefing
Session briefs
9 November: Inauguration
[HIGH-LEVEL LEADERSHIP PANEL] Managing Change: Challenges
of translating knowledge into adaptation policy and action in the
mountains
Session design – Moderated Panel
As the source of ten of Asia’s major river systems, the Hindu Kush Himalayas provide water,
ecosystem services, and livelihoods to more than 210 million people. The region is also a
source of water for more than 1.3 billion people – a fifth of the world’s population – living in
downstream river basins. Climate change and other changes have already begun to impact
ecosystems and communities across the region, as well as those downstream. Traditional
adaptation techniques, which have supported people in mountain areas for centuries, are no
longer able to keep up with the rapid pace of change.
In order to help mountain communities adapt to this change, it is crucial to achieve good
integration between science, policy, and practice and to engage HKH actors in global
discussions and action on climate change. For this, while institutional and scientific strides
are still required, there is an urgent need for a mechanism that facilitates the uptake of
science in effective policy making for action. In this session, high-level policy and decision
makers from the region and the international community will discuss the role of the HKH and
mountain agenda in the global arena, and what the key priorities for translating adaptation
science into policy and action should be.
Key questions to be discussed
What are the key concerns for adaptation to change in this region?
As policy makers, what types of scientific knowledge do you see the need for to better
develop adaptation programmes in your region?
How much importance should be placed on the role of the HKH and the mountain
agenda in international discussions on adaptation and the upcoming Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs)? How critical is adaptation in the HKH to achieving the
SDGs?
Are existing mechanisms adequate for harnessing scientific knowledge for policy making
and action? If not, what would you suggest to make this linkage more effective?
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10 November: Adaptation Science
[PLENARY] Adding Knowledge and Evidence: Strengthening regional
knowledge beyond IPCC assessment reports
Session host – Nand Kishor Agrawal
Session design – Formal Panel
The IPCC’s Fourth Annual Report (AR4) stated that there is a gap in scientific knowledge
about climate change and its impacts in the Himalayas. Since then, significant strides have
been made, and the newly released AR5 provides fresh insights into the state of climate
change in the region. In addition, several regional and international institutions and
organizations have been working to generate knowledge from the region and have published
a number of findings.
Even so, gaps in our knowledge remain about climate change in the Hindu Kush Himalayas.
To effectively support communities in adapting to change, decision makers require in-depth
regional knowledge and data to align with and strengthen global perspectives.
This session will focus on identifying past strides and current knowledge gaps, setting the
course for bridging these gaps, and discussing what mechanisms can be put in place to
strengthen the uptake of already attained knowledge.
What new gains in knowledge have been made since the release of the IPCC AR4? What
gaps are still remaining in our knowledge about climate change in the HKH region?
How do we strengthen support to and networking between regional institutions and
experts for bridging these gaps?
How do we effectively link the IPCC and other global knowledge users to institutions and
experts in the region to ensure uptake of regional knowledge?
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PARALLEL SESSIONS: Moving from climate observations to
scientific understanding in the HKH context
preparedness
[PARALLEL A] Questions of Scale: Applying global and regional climate scenarios
to HKH basins
Session host – Philippus Wester
Session design – Dialogue Café
It is frequently argued that in order to support policy makers in developing adaptation
measures, more detailed information is needed on the impacts of climate change. However,
developing high-resolution climate scenarios for the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra basins
is a challenging task, and these scenarios will never be able to deliver the level of certainty
requested by decision makers.
High-altitude climates are particularly uncertain, and the commonly used climate datasets
are grossly inaccurate at high altitudes. These data constraints make it very difficult to
develop accurate regional climate scenarios, using either statistical or dynamical
downscaling techniques.
For both approaches, General Circulation Models (GCMs) and Regional Climate Models
(RCMs) need to be selected based on two fundamentally different methods. The first method
aims to cover the full envelope of possible futures, while the second method selects GCMs/
RCMs on the basis of indicators of past performance. Both methods have pros and cons, but
in the case of the HKH region the first method may be preferable, as current climate models
have considerable difficulty in simulating past climate.
As climate information is complex, and raw outputs of climate models generally have limited
meaning for scientists from other disciplines, user groups, stakeholders, and decision makers,
this raises the following questions:
The effects of climate change on the South Asian monsoon are highly uncertain, but of
critical importance. Can we expect future scientific breakthroughs that will give a better
understanding of probable changes in monsoon patterns?
How do we communicate uncertainty concerning regional climate scenarios to decision
makers and stakeholders in such a way that the urgency to act is not lost?
As both statistical and dynamic downscaling will continue to yield a wide spread of
possible future climate scenarios with high levels of uncertainty, which steps need to be
taken to develop ’what if’ scenarios to support robust decision making?
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[PARALLEL B] Emerging Concerns: Black carbon and the cryosphere
preparedness
Session host – Arun B. Shrestha
Session design – Interactive Panel
Climate change has become a major issue in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region.
There is increasing evidence of rising temperatures, as well as changes in precipitation
patterns and snowfall, which is causing impacts such as glacier shrinkage, changes in the
hydrological regime, floods, and droughts. Mountain regions are particularly vulnerable,
both because of increased warming trends and because impacts are magnified by the
extreme changes in altitude over small distances. The limited capacity of local people to
adapt to these changes creates additional vulnerability.
An increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) concentration in the atmosphere is primarily
responsible for climate change in the HKH region. However, recent studies suggest that a
large part of the observed change in the region’s climate is driven by the presence of
aerosols containing black carbon (BC). These aerosols are produced by the incomplete
combustion of biomass, coal, and diesel fuels, and can contribute to climate change by
altering the Earth’s radiative balance and cloud properties. Recent studies show that once
deposited in snow and ice, BC can result in glacier shrinkage and snow cover reduction.
Researchers have suggested that BC concentration has increased two- to threefold in the last
20 years and is responsible for as much as half of all glacial melt.
However, there is a great need for sound scientific consensus on the impact of BC. The
objective of this session is to present and share research on BC and other atmospheric
pollutants that impact the climate of the HKH region and the cryosphere melting process.
How is black carbon impacting the climate of the HKH region? What is its relative role
compared to greenhouse gases and other atmospheric pollutants?
What is the scientific consensus about the role of black carbon in cryosphere and glacier
dynamics? Do model and in-situ studies corroborate the findings?
What are the key scientific knowledge gaps with regard to black carbon and atmospheric
pollutants in the HKH. and which research areas should be prioritized in order to fill
them?
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[PARALLEL C] Predicting Uncertainties: The challenges of disaster
risk management
preparedness
Session hosts – MSR Murthy and Neera Shrestha-Pradhan
Adaptation and disaster risk management approaches need to be pursued simultaneously for
reducing and managing risks of climate extremes and disasters and to increase resilience to
remaining risks as they change over time. In this way, adaptation is achieved alongside
preparedness: putting plans into action in anticipation of danger to safeguard lives and
investments.
To do this, we are dependent on scientific models that simulate reality and help us prepare
for different eventualities. However, with climatic extremes adding unexpected dimensions
and complicating environmental balance, uncertainties in predicting the occurrence and
nature of disaster events undermine attempts at preparedness and erode years of
development achievements. The unprecedented scale of flood events in recent years serves
as evidence of the close link between weather systems and disasters. In addition, rapid
economic development, increasing population, and expanding infrastructure in the Hindu
Kush Himalayan region are expected to escalate the cost of disasters.
As a consequence, the region experiences new disasters every year, resulting in loss of lives
and livelihoods. To overcome these challenges, we need to develop reliable science- and
technology-based predictive and monitoring capabilities, explore innovative and inclusive
low-cost community-based disaster risk reduction systems that integrate local knowledge and
ensuring the right communication at the right time. To be effective, disaster risk
communication must be sensitive to gender and cultural contexts based on how women and
men receive, interpret, and exchange information about hazard and disasters. The objective
of this session is to use current experiences to define the road ahead and to discuss how to
address the challenges of disaster preparedness.
What are the key challenges in predicting disaster events and what should we do to
address these challenges?
What kind of disaster risk communication is most effective for adaptation and disaster risk
management? What mechanisms can we use to ensure ‘gender targeted’ dissemination
of risk information that reaches out to the most vulnerable communities?
What are the benefits and challenges of integrating local knowledge with scientific and
technical knowledge in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation?
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PARALLEL SESSIONS: Bridging local and global knowledge to
improve livelihoods in changing landscapes
Ensuring food security through
flexible production systems
marginalised groups’
responses to change
[PARALLEL A] Sustaining the Mountains: Bridging local and global knowledge to
improve livelihoods in changing landscapes
Session host – Abid Hussain
The biggest challenge faced by mountain production systems is improving local food
availability while managing the impacts of socioeconomic and climatic changes.
Outmigration and decreasing interest of young people in agriculture represent major
socioeconomic changes in the mountains with gendered impacts. In addition, economic
shocks such as instability in food supplies from the plains and volatile prices also result in
poor access to food for mountain people. Climate changes, such as unprecedented changes
in temperature and precipitation, have added to mountain people’s vulnerability, causing
shocks and damaging effects. These stresses are also affecting the status of mountain women
and their ability to provide for their families.
However, some of these changes also bring opportunities. There is a need to identify
opportunities in mountains to reshape local production systems so that they may flexibly react
and adapt to changes without deteriorating local diversity and ecosystems. Mountain food
security differs from food security in plains areas because mountain livelihoods are largely
dependent on natural resources and landscapes, livestock, and niche farming products. It
may not be possible to achieve complete food self-sufficiency in mountain areas due to
constraints on land and environment, but revitalizing local food systems may reduce the
dependence of mountain communities on external food supplies.
This session will bring into focus the possible options for mountain production systems
conducive to enhancing their ability to adapt to changes.
What are the key agro-ecological and institutional challenges constrain mountain food
security, including production, availability, access and affordability?
What mountain-specific opportunities and potentials may contribute to the flexibility of
mountain production systems? How do we ensure the integration of women so that they
equally benefit from these new opportunities?
Which policy measures could be implemented to encourage and promote flexibility?
How can institutions be strengthened to support distribution mechanisms to meet the
constraints of mountain agriculture?
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[PARALLEL B] A Fine Balance: Connecting community- and ecosystem-based
adaptation
responses to change
Session host – Laxmi Dutt Bhatta
As global efforts for adaptation to climate change gain momentum, several approaches have
been proposed by interested quarters, all aimed at enhancing the adaptive capacities of
vulnerable communities and individual households. Two approaches that have been rapidly
gaining currency in adaptation discourse and practice are community-based adaptation
(CbA) and ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA).
While the former places communities at centre-stage and focuses on the ‘demand’ side to
address adaptation needs, including the dependency of households on natural resources, the
latter lays strong emphasis on the conservation and management of ecosystem services to
ensure adaptation, thus focusing more on maintaining the ‘supply’ side of services. In the
process of promoting their individual rationales, the proponents of both approaches often fail
to see the synergy of these two approaches and the interdependency between them.
In the process of advocating the merits of their respective approaches, the fact that these
approaches are mutually inclusive and complementary is often lost, thus missing
opportunities to harness them profitably. The session aims to facilitate the recognition of this
complementarity and opportunities for synergy between the two approaches, and thereby
contribute to strengthening efforts for enhancing adaptation.
Why do we need ecosystem-based and community-based adaptation in development
planning for adaptation to climate change? How can both approaches be integrated in
adaptation plans at international and national levels (NAPA, etc.)?
What is the state of knowledge available on integration of EbA and CbA in the HKH
region? What are the key theoretical and practical complementarities between EbA and
CbA that provide cost-effective tools to support adaptation?
How can opportunities for synergy and current connections between the two approaches
be harnessed to improve future adaptation planning?
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[PARALLEL C] Vulnerability and Resilience: Integrating science with community
responses to change
responses to change
Session hosts – Chanda Gurung Goodrich and Anjal Prakash
Climate science is able to predict some of the changes affecting people’s lives and
livelihoods, producing information that contributes to reducing vulnerability and
strengthening resilience. However, in most cases, climatic data has been concentrated at the
aggregate level (national, regional, or state level) and generalized to represent entire
countries or regions. With extensive variations in topography and microclimate, there is need
for site-specific climatic data analysis to understand climate variation within local contexts.
Barring a few indicators of climate variability, scientific analysis is rarely available at the
community level. To adapt to changing conditions, farmers and residents have to rely mostly
on their own observations and subjective interpretations based on longstanding experience
and familiarity with seasonal patterns of rainfall and a set of local climate indicators. These
perceptions significantly shape local people’s actions and behaviour, and influence the way
they develop strategies to cope with change in the short term and to adapt to long-term
variations. While dynamic and evolving, local climate perceptions are not always consistent
with climatic data. As such, scientific data needs to be contextualized with the perceptions of
local communities to achieve better adaptation outcomes.
This session will explore and discuss linkages and gaps between climate science and
vulnerabilities and the responses of marginalized social groups, particularly women, exposed
to climate-related shocks and stressors. It aims to achieve a better understanding of the
perspectives of the most vulnerable with an understanding to incorporate issues of socialecological resilience in climate science.
What are the latest scientific perspectives on understanding vulnerability and resilience?
How can science help reduce vulnerability and increase resilience at the local level?
What institutional structures and actions are required to enable two-way flows and
integration of knowledge?
Since climatic risks are distributed unevenly, in what ways can the latest knowledge in
climate science help inform communities for adaptive action, particularly taking into
account socioeconomic and gendered inequities?
What systematic approach or mechanism could be used to support HKH communities in
dealing with change?
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[PLENARY] Consolidating Knowledge: Adaptation science for holistic
perspectives in upstream and downstream contexts
Session host – Rajan Kotru
This session will consolidate the key points of the day’s discussions to identify how the latest
science can be used to generate holistic perspectives for policy and action.
In recent years, holistic perspectives have increasingly been embedded in the planning and
implementation of programmes in upstream areas addressing the challenges of climate
change, with the logic that appropriate management upstream will lead to improved
adaptation downstream. However, adaptation science in the HKH has yet to completely
grasp the complexity of upstream-downstream linkages and their implications for climatesmart agriculture and human-wildlife conflicts. A holistic perspective requires scientists and
resource managers to bridge quality science with good management and well-functioning
institutions on the ground.
Perspectives on climate change adaptation also differ depending on the particular
background of scientists and decision makers. To ensure effective and sustainable adaptation
for mountain communities and environments, holistic perspectives must be developed that
bridge different scientific disciplines and practical approaches.
Adaptation science in the HKH is still in the preliminary stages of developing holistic and
inclusive perspectives on adaptation to climate change, and of finding effective ways to
deliver this information to those who must manage natural and cultural resources in a time of
change while still sustaining ecosystem services and deriving benefits.
Which holistic perspectives could be used to bridge upstream and downstream contexts
for a shared understanding of adaptation?
How can strong and inclusive stakeholder engagement be ensured in the generation of
scientific knowledge? How can adaptation science be used to address uncertainties and
allow flexibility in addressing change?
How can we ensure that adaptation science is effectively integrated into policy and
practice?
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11 November: Adaptation Policy and Action
[PLENARY] Enhancing Compatibility: Connecting national adaptation
plans with global strategies
Session host – Dhrupad Choudhury
As climate change and its impacts become increasingly evident, increasing the vulnerabilities
of poor, disadvantaged and marginalized communities, national and international agencies
are gearing up efforts to address the challenges arising from this grim reality.
The UNFCCC has initiated action to support nations, in particular the Least Developed
Countries, in preparing national adaptation plans (NAPs) to meet this challenge.
Complimenting the UNFCCC initiative, UNDP and UNEP have launched the NAPs Global
Support Programme. Despite these ongoing efforts, action on the issue is, as yet,
unsatisfactory and not being taken at a sufficiently urgent pace. Although many countries
have initiated action, the affected communities remain vulnerable, and adaptation does not
seem to be integrated with national development plans. In particular, the integration of
gender equality issues remains a big concern.
This session aims to discuss the challenges facing different agencies – at the international,
national and sub-national scales – and explore possible solutions, examining ways in which
global and national strategies and programmes can be synchronized to make NAPs and their
integration with national development programmes more effective. The session will also
explore what needs to be done to take mountain adaptation concerns into the global
discourse, and how the concerns of mountain nations can be aligned to the Post-2015
Sustainable Development Goals.
What are the key global programmes for supporting adaptation efforts by national
governments? How are international organizations in the region currently communicating
with governments and providing support to NAPs, and what is the mechanism for
support?
What is the level of awareness among national governments of the available international
resources for support, how are these being harnessed, and what are the gaps? What
mechanisms are in place to ensure that adaptation is integrated into national plans?
What kind of capacity building can be done with governments and international
organizations to bridge these gaps? How do we involve key relevant organizations in
this?
How can we improve the synergy between global- and national-level efforts?
What are some examples of thorough inclusion of gender considerations in these
processes?
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[PARALLEL SESSIONS] Engaging actors from the periphery of
adaptation policy discussions
mechanism
other regions
[PARALLEL A] Insurance and Risk Mitigation Strategies: Ensuring recovery after
climate-induced loss
Session host – Nand Kishor Agrawal
In spite of current and future adaptation and mitigation efforts, climate change will cause
several long-term irreversible losses due to the slow onset of changes in temperature, rainfall
variability, soil moisture, and ground water. Some lands will suffer permanent loss of
productivity, with no opportunity for livelihoods, and may even become uninhabitable. In such
cases, risk reduction and recovery measures such as insurance may not be appropriate.
Planned migration or improved management of remittances from migrants are potential
options.
In addition, the current and projected increase in climate- or weather-induced extreme events
like drought and flooding will severely affect the lives of rural people and agricultural
production systems. The impacts of these events in the HKH are compounded
disproportionately by less reliable or non-existent physical and institutional infrastructures and
physical inaccessibility. Access to climate risk insurance, conventional crop insurance and
other financial safety nets could be an option, but commercial viability poses a challenge for
these schemes.
This session has two objectives. The first is to gain a greater understanding of potential
economic and financial responses to both categories of climate-induced losses. The second is
to explore potential options and mechanisms at government, community, and individual levels
that can be promoted to reduce the negative impacts of these losses.
What are the current examples in agriculture and other sectors where the slow onset of
changes (climatic or otherwise) has led to permanent losses, and how have institutions and
people dealt with them? Are there examples of risk aversion mechanisms to reduce the
impact of such losses?
What are the potential sustainable options to reduce the impact of loss due to the slow
onset of changes and in cases of sudden extreme events? Some known examples are
weather-based insurance, disaster-linked insurance, harnessing remittances, etc.
What can be done at the institutional level in the HKH, specifically using financial
mechanisms, to support impacted communities in a more sustainable and systematic
manner rather than as ad hoc reactions to extreme events?
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[PARALLEL B] Transboundary River Basins: Management and benefit sharing as
an adaptation mechanism
mechanism
other regions
Session hosts – Aditi Mukherji and Shahriar Wahid
Adapting water management to climate change concerns will require prudent sharing of the
benefits that arise from water use between the major production sectors of agriculture,
energy, and industry in transboundary river basins of the Hindu Kush Himalayas.
This session will bring together professionals working on adaptation to climate variability and
change, especially in transboundary river basins, to discuss their views on benefit sharing as
an adaptation tool.
The session will provide an opportunity to share experiences on adapting to climate variability
and change among different water use sectors in a transboundary context; to discuss good
practices and lessons learned on adaptation to climate change with an emphasis on the
potential for benefit sharing in transboundary river basins (which could be shared at the
Regional Process Session on integrated water resources management at the Seventh World
Water Forum, Korea); and increase awareness of mutually beneficial benefit sharing options
for building transboundary adaptation strategies.
What should be the focus of benefit sharing for water-centric cooperation within
transboundary adaptation strategies?
How do we ensure that transboundary adaptation strategies will be integrated into
national plans and strategies?
Are there successful examples of regional cooperation in transboundary river basin
management elsewhere, and, if so, what lessons can be applied to the river basins in the
Hindu Kush Himalayas?
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[PARALLEL C] From Mountain to Mountain: Lessons for the Hindu Kush Himalaya
from other regions
mechanism
other regions
Session host – Erling Valdemar Holmgren
Mountain communities have a wealth of knowledge and strategies accumulated over
generations on how to cope with living in remote, harsh environments and to adapt to
climate variability.
Regional adaptation strategies need to recognize this and build on local knowledge. When
mountain ecosystems are managed sustainably they can continue to provide essential
regulating services that act as buffers against climate change and natural disasters. This
session will examine various regional adaptation policy success stories, strategies, barriers,
and local variations that may serve as models or lessons learned for other mountain regions.
The fundamental objective of this session is to facilitate cross-learning and exchange of
experiences from the different mountain regions of the world.
What examples of successful climate adaptation policy implementation do we have from
different regions? Are there examples of political will and economic incentives to establish
climate adaptation policies?
What barriers and impediments have participants experienced in implementing
adaptation polices in their regions?
How can we strengthen sharing and communication of good practices in adaptation and
policy implementation between mountain regions?
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[PLENARY] Connecting the Dots: Translating science to policy through
effective communication
Session host – Anja Møller Rasmussen
A critical lacuna in the uptake of scientific knowledge and findings for policy and practice has
been the ineffective (or often, the lack of) communication by the scientific community of their
findings to policy makers, and the general public. Effective communication, especially the
translation and packaging of key messages of scientific findings, is central to the translation
of science into policy and practice. This, obviously, requires specialized skills and partnerships
between the scientific community and communicators.
In this session, the challenges of translating scientific findings to policy makers and advocates
will be explored through examples, expert advice, and informal table conversations. Focus
will be on simplifying messages and building bridges between science, policy, and the
general public. Some of the key challenges to be discussed will be identifying a common
language and bridging gaps in knowledge.
The aim of this session is to identify key strategic approaches for connecting the dots from
science to policy. We will ask which strategies have worked and which have not worked, and
attempt to understand what makes certain strategies successful.
What are some good communications practices and examples of successfully building a
bridge from science to policy and action?
What potential role may partnerships and networks play in enhancing synergies to
successfully communicate science and policy to identified audiences?
What action and next steps can be taken to enable implementation of and change based
on science and policy recommendations?
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12 November: Adaptation Practice and Solutions
[PLENARY] In Practice: Integrating adaptation knowledge into
development
Session hosts – Dhrupad Choudhury and Erling Valdemar Holmgren
Session design – Interactive Plenary
Despite the growing number adaptation-related initiatives international agencies and
national governments are undertaking, a major challenge for action on adaptation has been
the integration of adaptation approaches into development planning. Several countries have
identified focal ministries and established mechanisms for formulating adaptation action
plans at national and sub-national levels, but the integration of adaptation approaches into
regular development planning processes remains inadequate or highly unsatisfactory. There
is growing recognition at different levels of the need to correct this inadequacy.
This plenary session will discuss this issue and explore the challenges in integrating
adaptation into development planning. The session also aims to explore the actions required
to immediately address this challenge, drawing from the experiences of the different countries
in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region and their ongoing efforts to integrate adaptation into
development.
What are the major challenges in integrating adaptation approaches into development
planning?
What is the key bottleneck in integrating adaptation into development? Is the availability
of funds the major constraint for integrating adaptation into development, or is the
primary constraint an institutional issue?
What would better facilitate the integration of adaptation into development planning and
action?
What are key action points for addressing this challenge?
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[PARALLEL SESSIONS] Applying lessons from science and policy in
local contexts
changing climates
Adaptation in Action:
Indigenous, existing and
emerging practices for
managing livelihoods
and value chains
[PARALLEL A] Climate-Smart Strategies: Large and small-scale innovations and
services for changing climates
Session host – Suman Bisht
In order to ensure that development is resilient to climate change, it is imperative that we
integrate climate risk considerations into policy and enable innovative solutions. Climatesmart strategies that build the social and physical resilience of societies are the need of the
hour. Innovation at micro and macro levels is essential for promoting climate-smart
strategies. However, until now the focus has been mostly on commercial, top-down
technological innovation. Technological innovations alone are insufficient to promote
climate-smart practices at the local level, particularly among women who have limited access
to resources and decision making and are often not able to take advantage of opportunities
from new technologies and markets.
Public involvement leading to small-scale actions can catalyse transformative change on a
larger scale. Engaging the capacities of local women and men to implement small-scale
approaches can make the process more efficient and equitable. However, those involved in
bottom-up innovation often do not have the capacity to overcome barriers to make this
innovation visible. In addition, the lack of strong market linkages presents a significant
challenge.
Creating a balance between large- and small-scale innovation requires innovation from
policy makers in providing new support mechanisms, particularly to the most marginalized
groups in society, including women. The objective of this session is to share programmes,
policies, services or interventions that have promoted large- or small-scale innovation in
combating climate change.
Besides technological solutions, how do we mainstream localized, bottom-up social
innovation?
What kind of mechanisms and instruments are required to support innovative approaches
to help smallholder producers – both women and men – build resilience to climate
change?
How do we link technological innovations to local users?
What are key ingredients for a ‘climate smart strategy’ that can support smallholders and
marginalized groups?
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[PARALLEL B] Adaptation in Action: Indigenous, existing, and emerging practices
for managing livelihoods
changing climates
and value chains
Session host – Soumyadeep Banerjee
Mountain people across the world are experiencing the impacts of different types of change.
Mountain specificities, such as fragile biophysical conditions, remoteness, isolation, and
marginalization, make these communities even more vulnerable to environmental
degradation and climatic risks and constrain their adaptive capacities. In addition, global
changes including globalization, liberalization, urbanization, connectivity, mobility, and land
use changes bring new challenges as well as opportunities for both women and men.
Over the years, mountain societies and institutions have worked hard to understand these
change processes and their differential impacts on women and men. Across the HKH region,
people, policy makers and research institutions have worked to devise gender-sensitive
strategies for adaptation to change. Households, communities, and governments have tried
a range of adaptation strategies. Now the impacts of such adaptive strategies are becoming
visible, and thus providing lessons for others.
This session will focus on sharing experiences of how women and men in local communities
are adapting to change, how their adaptive strategies are helping them, whether there are
limits to this adaptation at the local level, and how they are supported in adaptation. It will
capture the existing indigenous adaptation options practised by local communities, identify
emerging options, and acknowledge limitations of strategies adopted by the local
communities. It will also discuss how institutions can be strengthened to enable
mainstreaming of local and indigenous practices, knowledge (particularly women’s
experiences), and technologies into formal governance systems.
Why are particular strategies considered to be adaptive strategies? What effective local
adaptation strategies are currently being practised by mountain communities?
How do we build upon indigenous knowledge with formal scientific knowledge to help
communities to manage change?
What are the emerging opportunities and potentials to enhance the adaptive capacities
of marginalized mountain communities, particularly women, and what roles can
technical, educational, and policy making institutions play to support mountain
communities in adapting to change?
What policy interventions are required for upscaling local innovations and good
adaptation practices? What are the technological, institutional, and policy-related
challenges in upscaling these strategies to improve mountain livelihoods?
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[PARALLEL C] Adding Value: Promoting resilient livelihoods and climate-friendly
economic participation
changing climates
and value chains
Session host – Marjorie van Strien
Rural mountain people depend on an increasingly deteriorating natural resource base and
are subject to often volatile climatic and market conditions, which make them highly exposed
to shocks. The vulnerability to climatic variability is shaped by gender, caste, class, and other
markers of social status, which also determine access to additional assets to fall back on and
limited strategies for risk management in view of changes. Climate variability is one of the
major risks that rural mountain people have to manage.
The mountains of the Hindu Kush Himalayan region are, meanwhile, endowed with a rich
variety of natural resources that can be harnessed for livelihood products, such as cultivated
off-season vegetables, honeybee products, and medicinal and aromatic plants.
Diversification of livelihood sources, including engagement with mountain tourism, is a
natural coping strategy for rural mountain people.
Significant opportunities for rural mountain people lie in adding value to existing products
and services while developing new livelihood options. Through innovative interventions at
leverage points, rural communities can promote climate-resilient livelihoods and sustainable
market-based solutions.
What strategies provide good options for reducing the vulnerability of rural mountain
livelihoods?
What role does the private sector play in strengthening the adaptive capacity of smallscale producers in developing countries, and in making their value chains more resilient?
How can access to financial services be made more inclusive with the support of public
institutions? What practices provide answers to demand- and supply-side financial
constraints in the mountains?
What kinds of interventions are likely to exacerbate gender inequalities and which ones
provide the best options for reducing gender inequalities and gender-related
vulnerability?
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[CONCLUDING HIGH-LEVEL POLICY PANEL] Getting Mountains
on the Global Agenda: Mapping the way forward
Session design – Moderated Panel
In the next few years, several important conventions and processes are scheduled that will
determine the future of global action on climate change and adaptation. These include
UNFCCC processes, including COP-21, the development of new IPCC Assessment Reports,
and processes related to the Convention on Biological Diversity. In view of these upcoming
processes, it is crucial that actors in mountain regions take steps to strengthen their efforts to
position mountains as a key concern in the global climate and adaptation agenda.
In order to achieve this, it is necessary to explore new ideas and solutions for adaptation in
the Hindu Kush Himalayas, and to fill current knowledge gaps about climate change and
adaptation in the region. This conference has attempted to address these needs by
stimulating discussions on a wide range of relevant topics under the thematic pillars of
science, policy, and action, all with the fundamental aim of highlighting new knowledge and
opportunities, showcasing innovative approaches, and identifying the remaining gaps and
challenges in knowledge, policy, and action.
The conference ends with a high-level policy panel intended to map the way forward for all
those working on adaptation in the Hindu Kush Himalayas and in mountain regions around
the world. The session begins with a summary of the conference identifying key lessons and
burning questions for adaptation, after which a panel of high-level policy makers will discuss
action steps to incorporate adaptation concerns and new knowledge in development
practices in the region. The panel will also suggest strategies for action for positioning
mountains as a key concern on the global adaptation agenda.
What actions can be taken by national governments to incorporate the conference
learnings into adaptation planning?
What specific action can we take to include mountain concerns and knowledge into the
global adaptation agenda, and what roles can different representatives commit to for
taking the mountain agenda forward?
What processes and actors can be identified that have the potential to expedite the
placement of the mountain agenda in global discourse?
What should be an immediate action point that responsible actors can take up as a
regional cooperation effort for the Hindu Kush Himalayas?
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Session design guide
The conference features two types of sessions: plenary sessions, which begin and end each
day and are designed to explore major trends and issues; and parallel sessions, which are
sets of three simultaneous sessions designed to enable a deepening of the thematic scope
through dialogue among and with participants.
Both types of sessions have been structured according to one of the three following designs:
Formal panels are traditional panels with moderated presentations and limited time for
questions from the audience.
Time:
Activity
5 min
Opening
15 min
Keynote – max 8 ppt slides
40 min
Speakers present, 10 min and max 5 ppt slides each
10 min
Questions from the audience – moderated interaction
5 min
Summary
Interactive panels have shorter presentations than formal panels, and the emphasis is on
the session key messages and questions.
Time
Activity
5 min
Introduction
8 min
Keynote – 4 slides (1 key message, 1 key question)
30 min
Panelists present for 5 minutes (3 slides), 1 key message/question
30 min
Moderated dialogue between panel and participants
10 min
Reflections back from the panel (1 minute each)
5–7 min
Closing statements
Dialogue cafés are designed to allow for maximum engagement with and among the
audience.
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Time
Activity
5 min
Opening
5 min
Keynote – 2 slides (1 key message – 1 key question)
20 min
Panelists give short statements of 3 minutes – 1 key message and 1 key
question each
30 min
Table discussions among participants
20 min
Reporting back and summary statements
10 min
Closing remarks
Poster presenters
Afghanistan
Abdul Ahad
abdul.ahad@akdn.org
Alimuddin Naseri
alimuddin.naseri@akdn.org
Bangladesh
India
Anamika Barua
anamika@saciwaters.org
Sujata Bhattacharya
sujata0685@gmail.com
Subash Prasad Rai
subashbitsindri@gmail.com
Nazmun Mita
nazmun.mita@yahoo.com
Satyarup Siddhanta
satyarup.siddhanta@gmail.com
Amrita Mukherjee
amukherjee@ucdavis.edu
Nepal
Md Kawser Uddin Maruf
mkuddinmaruf63@gmail.com
China
Ou Xiaoou
ou-xiaoou@hotmail.com
Pakistan
Aneeqa Aseem
aneeqa.azeem@gmail.com
Shahid Naeem
shahid.613@gmail.com
Dilli Bhattarai
bhattarai.dilli@gmail.com
Tikeshwari Joshi
tikeshwari.joshi@gmail.com
Snehalata Sainjoo
sainjoo.snehalata@gmail.com
Deepa Basnet
deepa.basnet@icimod.org
Sumit Dugar
sumitdugar@hotmail.com
Khadija Nisar
khadija.nisar@gmail.com
Veronica Utz
veronika.utz@giz.de
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Marketplace presenters
Afghanistan
UNEP (United Nations Environment
Programme)
Azim Doosti
azim.doosti@unep.org
Bangladesh
Helvetas
bikram.rana@helvetas.org.np
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and
Communication (BNNRC)
bnnrcbd@gmail.com
International Development Enterprises (IDE)
Nepal
rkgc@idenepal.org
Bhutan
Mission East Nepal
christophe.belperron@missioneast.org
National Land Commission
nim_gyel@hotmail.com
India
Climate and Development Knowledge
Network (CDKN)
elizabeth.gogoi@cdkn.org
Indian Himalayas Climate Adaptation
Programme (IHCAP)
kirtiman@ihcap.in
Powerful Hands
powerfullhands@gmail.com
Real Time Solutions (RTS)
Sujata.pujari@rts.com.np
Sustainable Eco Engineering (SEE)
mahendrarimala@hotmail.com
Small Earth
jeeban@smallearth.org.np
Reuters Market Light (RML)
raminder.singh@rmlglobal.com
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
bhawani.dongol@wwfnepal.org
Myanmar
Myanmar Institute for Integrated Development
mikehaynes@heritage-development.net
Young Professionals for Agriculture
Development (YPAD)
bivekanandamahat@gmail.com
Nepal
Netherlands
Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC)
krishnachandra.poudel@aepc.gov.np
Climate Adaptation Services Foundation
luuk.masselink@wur.nl
BBC Media Action
serena.hamilton@bbc.co.uk
Pakistan
CEAPRED
keshab.joshi@ceapred.org.np
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Department of Hydrology and Meteorology
(DHM)
rishisharm@yahoo.com
Hydro Link Texila
rabbikan@yahoo.com
Conference speakers
Tor Halfdan Aase is Professor at Department of Geography, University of
Bergen, Norway, and affiliated Senior Researcher at Center for International
Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO), Oslo. He has carried out
research in the Himalayan region on various topics, including in Gilgit,
Pakistan (hydropower); Uttarakhand, India (innovations in agriculture); and
Manang, Nepal (farming and land use). Dr Aase is presently in charge of a
component on the Himalayan Climate Change Adaptation Programme
(HICAP) labelled ‘place-based studies’, which comprises intensive case studies
on the capacity to adapt to climate change in rural communities in China,
Nepal, India, and Pakistan.
Pramod K Aggarwal is Regional Program Leader of the CGIAR Research
Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security. Earlier, he
was ICAR National Professor at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute,
and Coordinator of the ICAR Network on Climate Change and
Agriculture. He was the Coordinating Lead Author for the chapter ‘Food,
Fiber, and Forest Products’ of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007)
and Review Editor for AR5. He is a member of the editorial boards of
several journals on agriculture, and a Fellow of the Indian National
Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
Prof. Aggarwal holds PhDs from the University of Indore and Wageningen
University, Netherlands. He was awarded the Ernestoilly Trieste Science
Prize by the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World for his work on
climate change and agriculture, which included developing crop growth
models for tropical environments, and genotype of environment by
management interactions.
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Sara Ahmed is Senior Program Specialist at the International Development
Research Centre, Canada. She has worked for 20 years on the political
economy of water in India and connections between water, climate
change, and gender issues.
Ahmed also worked with NGOs in parts of India vulnerable to drought,
flood, and coastal storms. She tackled issues ranging from the impacts of
climate change to the role of gender in water governance and conflicts
over water. Ahmed was Chair of the international Gender and Water
Alliance and sat on the steering committee of the Forum for Policy
Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India. She has also worked with the
Institute for Social and Environmental Transition, taught for a decade at
India’s Institute of Rural Management, and published on many facets of
water policy and gender issues.
Ahmed holds a PhD in environmental sociology and an MPhil in
international relations from Cambridge University (England).
Yuri Badenkov is a leading scientist within sustainable mountain
development and adaptation strategies for global change, with experience
working in North Eurasia, Central Asia, North and South Caucasus and
the Sudet Mountains in Poland. He has been head of the Mountain Group
MAB-6 at the Russian Academy of Science Institute of Geography from
1983-2013. He has contributed to UNESCO work on sustainable
mountain development, and the Man and the Biosphere Programme
(MAB), working to preserve mountain biosphere reserves. He received an
honour medal from the Commission of the Russian Federation for
UNESCO affairs for his contribution to Russian cooperation with
UNESCO. He holds degrees in Geology and Geochemistry from the
universities of Moscow and St. Petersburg.
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V.K. Bahuguna is Principal Secretary for the Government of Tripura, India. His
work focuses on forests, animal resources and agriculture/horticulture/
watershed management and state land use.
He holds a PhD in Forest Ecosystems and an MSc in Zoology from the
University of Garhwal, India; an MSc in Resource Management from the
University of Edinburg, UK, and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Forestry from the
Indian Forest College (now Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy).
He served as Director General of the Indian Council of Forestry Research and
Education, Chancellor of the Forest Research Institute Deemed University,
Dehradun, India, and Inspector General of Forest at the Ministry of
Environment and Forests, as well as Associate Professor at the Indian Institute
of Forest Management.
He received the Queen’s Award for Forestry from the Commonwealth Forestry
Association UK, and the ‘Great Son of India Award 2013’ from the All India
Intellectual Federation. He has published more than 160 publications in
national and international journals.
Anamika Barua is currently Executive Director of SaciWATERs (South Asian
Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies) located in
Hyderabad, India. Her work focuses on the Indian Eastern Himalayas and
Gangetic plains.
She is currently on a two-year academic leave from her position as Associate
Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India.
She holds a PhD in Ecological Economics from the University of Leeds, UK.
Her areas of expertise includes socioeconomic understanding of climate risk
and resilience, urban living, and sustainable cities.
She completed a Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
(SIDA) funded project on ‘Understanding social vulnerability to climate change
in Indian Eastern Himalaya’ in collaboration with Lund University, Sweden.
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Asit K. Biswas is one of the world’s leading authorities on water
management. He is the founder of the Third World Centre for Water
Management, Mexico, a member of the World Commission on Water, and
a founder of the International Water Resources Association and the World
Water Council. He has been senior advisor to 20 governments, six heads
of UN Agencies, the Secretary General of OECD, and NATO.
Among his numerous prizes are the two awards of the International Water
Resources Association, as well as the Stockholm Water Prize for “his
outstanding and multi-faceted contributions to global water resource
issues”.
Prof. Biswas is a member of the Global Agenda Council of the World
Economic Forum; the International Advisory Committee, Pictet Investments,
Geneva; and the Advisory Board, Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur. He is a Strategic Advisor for the Singapore International Water
Week. He is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the International
Journal of Water Resources Development.
Tobias Bolch received his PhD in Physical Geography in 2006 from the
University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, and researched thereafter at
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany, and the University of Northern British
Columbia, Canada. Since 2010 he has been a senior researcher at the
Department of Geography of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and the
Institute for Cartography at TU Dresden, Germany. His main research focuses
on investigating the impact of climate change on glaciers in various mountain
ranges of the world, with a focus on high-mountain Asia. He was invited as a
speaker for several international conferences in Asia, Europe, and North
America and has published more than 50 well-recognized papers in
international journals.
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Bernard Cantin is Program Leader for the International Development
Research Centre, Canada, on a 5-year initiative called Collaborative
Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia, in partnership with the
UK Department for International Development, which aims to build the
resilience of vulnerable populations and their livelihoods in three hot-spots
(major Deltas, Basin-fed glacier, and semi-arid regions) by supporting
collaborative research to inform policy and practice.
Bernard received a PhD in Political Science and an MSc in Economics
from the University of Montreal. He specialized in international affairs,
comparative politics, macroeconomics and environmental policy.
His work experience includes consultancy in strategic planning and 15
years in policy work and research for the Government of Canada in the
areas of agriculture policy, fisheries management, water management, and
climate change adaptation. Bernard also contributed to a number of
publications such as Horizons, the Canadian Water Resources Journal and
Revue Canadienne de Science Politique.
Partha J Das is a researcher from Assam, India, working mainly on climate
and disaster risk reduction and adaptation. He has an MPhil and Doctorate
Degree in Environmental Sciences from Gauhati University, Assam, where he
specialized in climatology and flood hydrology. He works mainly in the
northeastern region of India, a part of the Eastern Himalayas. Presently he is
leading the ‘Water, Climate & Hazard Programme’ of Aaranyak, a premier
environmental organization of India and a partner of ICIMOD. His team, in
collaboration with ICIMOD, has been providing early warning of flash floods
in Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts of Assam for the last five years.
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Dong Suocheng is a leading Professor of Knowledge and Innovation Base at
the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research
(IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also Director of Regional
Ecological Economics Research and Planning Center, Director of Resource
Economics and World Resource Research Department, and Vice Director of
Center of Tourism Research and Planning of IGSNRR.
He holds a PhD in Regional Economics and Human Geography, and an MSc
in Economic Geography, both from Northwest Normal University.
He is the leading scientist of the Key Project of National Scientific and
Technological Basic Research on the ‘Comprehensive scientific expedition of
north China and its adjacent areas’. He is also standing member of China
Society of Natural Resources and Chinese Ecological Economics Society.
Prof. Dong has published more than 300 papers and monographs, and has
won 12 scientific and technological progress awards and cooperation awards
at the national and international levels.
Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of UNFCCC, has been involved in
climate change negotiations since 1995. Initially a member of the Costa Rican
negotiating team, she was also a member of the Executive Board of the Clean
Development Mechanism, and Vice President of the Bureau of the Conference
of the Parties.
She founded the Centre for Sustainable Development of the Americas, a
non-profit think tank for climate change policy and capacity-building which she
directed until 2003. Previously, she served as Director of the Technical
Secretariat of the Renewable Energy in the Americas, at the Embassy of Costa
Rica in Germany, and as Director of International Cooperation in the Ministry
of Planning in Costa Rica, and was Chief of Staff to the Minister of Agriculture.
Ms Figueres holds a Master’s Degree in Anthropology from the London School
of Economics and a certificate in Organizational Development from
Georgetown University, and is a widely published author on the design of
climate solutions.
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Vinod K Gaur studied geophysics at Banaras University and Imperial College,
where he discovered the ‘host rock effect’ in geo-electromagnetics, which
earned him a PhD from the University of London. He has been Director of the
National Geophysical Research Institute, served as Secretary to the
Government of India, and is now Distinguished Professor at the CSIR Centre of
Mathematical Modeling, Bangalore, in an honourary capacity.
He is currently working on the characterization and modelling of critical
watersheds in important river basins, and providing quantitative guides for
making water management-related decisions, such as the quantum of
necessary environmental flows.
Professor Gaur is a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, the Indian
Academy of Sciences, and the Third World Academy of Sciences. The many
honours he received include the Bhatnagar Prize (1980), the Flinn Award of
the American Geophysical Union (2000), and the Saha Birth Centenary Award
of the Indian Science Congress (2006).
Giovanna Gioli is a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Geography,
University of Hamburg. Her research focuses on the migration, environment,
and development nexus, with a particular focus on gender. Drawing on
political ecology, participatory research, and community-based adaptation
approaches, Dr Gioli’s work addresses the role of perceptions in shaping
responses to risk and adaptive strategies. She has spent extended periods of
fieldwork and capacity building in South Asia (Nepal and Pakistan), and her
background is in political philosophy, migration studies, and anthropology.
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Elizabeth Gogoi joined the Climate Development Knowledge Network
(CDKN) in 2011 and is currently the India Country Programme Manager,
based in LEAD India in New Delhi.
Prior to CDKN, Elizabeth worked on climate change and development public
policy, including in the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) in London, as a
researcher in the European Parliament, and a fellow in the US Senate. In
addition, she has also worked on community projects in Tanzania and South
Africa. Elizabeth has a Master’s degree in International Political Economy from
the London School of Economics and an undergraduate degree in political
science from the University of Manchester.
Ashok Gurung is one of the founding senior directors of the India China
Institute (ICI) and is Professor of Practice in the Julien J. Studley Graduate
Program in International Affairs at The New School. A native of Nepal, he
has taught several courses on development management and political and
social issues in Nepal at the New School, and most recently taught a
course on, “Global Himalaya: Rethinking Culture and Ecology.”
Ashok has more than twenty years of international development experience
with civil society groups, academic institutions, foundations and multilateral organizations and governments worldwide. He holds an MA in
International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at
Columbia University, a BA in International Service and Development from
World College West in Petaluma, California, and a Certificate in
Norwegian Culture and Society from the University of Oslo, Norway.
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Dipak Gyawali is currently ‘Pragya’ (Academician) of the Nepal Academy of
Science and Technology and Chair of the non-profit Nepal Water
Conservation Foundation. As a cultural theorist upholding the idea of
institutional pluralism requiring all three styles of organizing, he conducts
interdisciplinary research on the interface between technology and society. A
Moscow-trained hydroelectric power engineer and a Berkeley-trained political
economist, he has initiated reforms in the electricity and irrigation sectors
during his time as Nepal’s Minister of Water Resources in 2002/2003. He has
published extensively at national and international levels and serves/has served
on many international advisory panels, including UNESCO’s World Water
Assessment Program, IDS Sussex’s STEPs Center, Mekong’s MPower, Pacific
Northwest National Lab, and Coca Cola.
Kristin Halvorsen is a former politician and served in the Stoltenberg II
Cabinet from 2005 to 2013. She was the first female Minister of Finance in
Norway from 2005 to 2009, and was Minister of Education from 2009 to
2013. From 2005 to 2012 she was second-in-command in the Cabinet and
served as deputy Prime Minister. Kristin Halvorsen was first elected as Member
of Parliament in 1989 and was the Party Leader of The Socialist Left Party from
1997 to 2012. In 2002 she was awarded for her communication skills by the
Norwegian Communication Association. She has also published two books.
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Nina Holmelin is a Research Fellow and PhD candidate at CICERO –
Center for International Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo, in
Norway, and at Department of Geography, University of Bergen, Norway.
Her PhD project, “Capability to change in response to lare-scale
uncertainty: Farming flexibility, food security and climate change in
Himalaya” is part of the ICIMOD led programme Himalayan Climate
Change Adaptation Programme (HICAP), which is funded by Norwegian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Holmelin’s PhD project concerns small-scale
food production systems in Nepal Himalaya and explores the potentials
and constraints to adaptation in local, Himalayan farming communities to
the multiple challenges of future climatic and market uncertainties.
Holmelin holds a Master’s Degree (2010) in Human Geography and a
Bachelor’s Degree in Development Studies (2008), both from University of
Bergen, Norway. She has fieldwork experience in Nepal since 2009 and
she has also been working in Peru, Estonia and Norway.
Xu Jianchu is the Regional Coordinator of World Agroforestry Center, East
and Central Asia, as well as Professor at the Kunming Institute of Botany,
Chinese Academy of Sciences; former Head of Water and Hazards at the
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development in Kathmandu; and
former Director of the Center for Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge, an
NGO based in southwest China working with indigenous people for cultural
survival, forest management, community livelihood and water governance. He
got a PhD in Agronomy from the China Agricultural University. He currently
serves as board member of the International Association for Ecology and
Health. Xu is a crazy Chinese with great interest in plants, trees, and soil
management related matters. He has stuck his nose into rivers, mountains,
and forests all over the east and central region. He is a keen traveller and
researcher with an impressive reference list.
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Babar Khan is a natural resource management professional. He holds a PhD
in Ecology from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an MSc in Agriculture
from the Agricultural University, Peshawar. He worked for different international
organizations on biodiversity conservation, participatory natural resource
management with a focus on pasture/rangelands, climate change, highaltitude wetlands, human-wildlife conflict, agro-pastoral livelihoods, mountain
value chains, environmental awareness, and climate risk reduction.
He is Senior Programme Manager and Head of the Gilgit-Baltistan region at
WWF-Pakistan. His current portfolio includes projects on snow leopard
conservation, protected area management, climate risk reduction, and the
protection of high-altitude wetlands. He has published over 30 articles, three
books, and various reports including the recent “State of rangelands in
Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu & Kashmir” for FAO Pakistan.
Among other awards, he received the Presidential Award ‘Ezaz-e-sabqat’ by
the Government of Pakistan and Youth Green Skills Award for academic and
research achievements and excellence.
Janine Kuriger is Director of Cooperation of the Swiss Agency for
Development and Cooperation at the Swiss Embassy, New Delhi. She
specialized in project management and policy dialogue in the fields of
climate change mitigation and adaptation and sustainable development,
and has longstanding experience in development cooperation.
Before her appointment to India, she was working as Programme Manager
of SDC’s Global Programme on Climate Change in the Andean Region
and South Africa, and co-chaired the OECD/DAC/EPOC Task Team on
Climate Change and Development. She was also Deputy Head of the
Swiss Cooperation Office in Lima, and worked for the Swiss State
Secretariat for Economic Affairs as Programme Manager for infrastructure
financing and promotion of trade and environmentally sound technologies.
She holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of
Lausanne, and Certificates of Advanced Studies in General Management
and Corporate Management from the Kalaidos University of Applied
Sciences, Switzerland.
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Mona Laczo is the Country Director for BBC Media Action in Nepal, working
on climate change resilience and humanitarian lifeline programming. She
received an MA in Asia Pacific Studies from the University of San Francisco,
USA, and has over 16 years of development sector experience in Southeast
and South Asia, with strong expertise in livelihoods including climate change
and agriculture, human rights, humanitarian, governance, and gender
programmes.
Ms Laczo has led and engaged in climate change campaigns for Oxfam and
partners in Southeast Asia, and led the development of Oxfam America’s
climate change and agriculture programme. In addition, Mona engaged with
Cambodia’s Ministry of Environment Climate Change Office to commission a
public perception study on climate change to help development practitioners
and other stakeholders including government agencies to better focus their
climate change interventions. Ms Laczo has also supported the
conceptualization of the Cambodian National Climate Change Conference,
now a regular bi-annual event.
Liu Suxia is Professor of Hydrology at Key Laboratory of Water Cycles and
Related Land Surface Processes, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural
Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She is also Secretary
General of the National Working Group on Predictions in Ungauged Basins.
Dr Liu holds a PhD in Physical Geography from the Institute of Geography,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, where she teaches hydrology and
environmental sciences in the graduate university.
She was a major contributor to the Global Soil Moisture Databank,
organized a series of international training courses on integrated water
resources management and integrated river basin management, and
worked for the World Bank on adaptation to climate change of agriculture
in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain.
Dr Liu is a member of the International Association of Hydrological
Sciences and International Association of Water Resources. She has
published many research articles, co-authored books, and is a reviewer for
several journals, including Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, and
Journal of Geophysical Research.
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Pradip Maharjan is Chief Executive Officer of the Agro Enterprise Centre of
the Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industries (FNCCI).
He previously worked as Component Manager on Agriculture Productivity and
Income Generation in USAID-Nepal’s Education for Income Generation
Program/Winrock International, and as Senior Marketing Officer for Herbs
Production & Processing Co. Ltd, a parastatal organization under the Ministry
of Forest and Soil Conservation, Nepal.
He holds a Master’s in Development Management from the Asian Institute of
Management, Philippines, and Master’s in Economics from Tribhuban
University, Kathmandu, Nepal. His background also includes community
forestry extension (Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand), and productivity
management (Irish Productivity Center, Dublin, Ireland)
He is a member of the Arts Faculty Board of Kathmandu University, and served
as a consultant for development projects including ‘Food for Work’ in Nepal,
funded by the Gates Foundation and ‘Value chain study of Ginger, bamboo
and alnus nepalensis in the eastern development zone of Nepal’ with Mercy
Corps, Nepal.
Rojina Manandhar is a Programme Officer in the Adaptation Programme at
the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC) in Germany. She provides support to the Nairobi Work
Programme on Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change.
A major part of her work covers the provision of information and knowledge
on climate change impacts and vulnerability assessments, and adaptation
planning and practices, as well as fostering collaborative partnerships with
relevant organizations.
Over the past ten years, Ms Manandhar has worked on the scientific,
technical, and policy aspects of impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation to
climate change, and in particular the science-policy interface in South Asia,
North America, and Europe.
She holds a BSc in Environmental Science from St Xaivier’s College,
Kathmandu University, Nepal; a Master of Environmental Management from
Duke University, USA, under a Fulbright Scholarship; and an MBA from the
University of Twente, Netherlands.
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David James Molden joined ICIMOD as Director General in 2011.
Dr Molden is a development specialist with more than 30 years of experience
in designing, planning, executing, and monitoring programmes on water
management, livelihoods, environment, and ecosystem services. He has been
Deputy Director General for Research at the International Water Management
Institute (IWMI) based in Sri Lanka, Chief of Party for the Irrigation
Management Project in Nepal, Chief of Party for a water resources strategic
research programme in Egypt, and Leader of the multi-institute Comprehensive
Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture programme.
Dr Molden holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University,
where he specialized in water resources. He contributed to the publication of
nearly 200 works in books, refereed journals, research and project report
series, the media, and educational materials. He has received many awards
including the Outstanding Scientist Award of the Consultative Group on
International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) in 2009.
Eddy J. Moors is Head of the research group Climate Change and Adaptive
Land & Water Management (CALM) of Alterra Wageningen UR. He is also
Professor of Water and Climate at VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Before coming to Wageningen he worked for the World Meteorological
Organization in Africa and the Caribbean. His key expertise is integrating
disciplines to tackle research questions that ask for an inter- and
transdisciplinary approach. Keywords in his research are: climate change,
adaptation, greenhouse gas emissions, and stakeholder interaction. He is and
has been coordinator of national and international projects. He is member of
the Hotspot Team of the city of Rotterdam and is member of the Adaptation
Services Platform of Climate KIC.
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Aditi Mukherji is leading ICIMOD´s Water and Air Theme. She previously
worked at ICRISAT in Hyderabad, India, and has over 12 years of research
experience on institutions and policies of water resources management.
She is an executive committee member of the Permanent Consultative
Committee on Groundwater set up by the GEF and FAO, and was awarded
the Inaugural Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application by
the World Food Prize Foundation for her policy work in West Bengal, India.
She holds a PhD in Human Geography from Cambridge University, UK, and
an MPhil in Planning and Development from ITT Bombay. She has published
over 50 peer reviewed research papers and two books, and was interviewed
by the BBC and National Geographic.
She was the associate editor of Hydrogeology Journal and regularly peer
reviews articles for many journals including World Development, Agricultural
Water Management, Energy Policy, Transactions of the Institute of British
Geographers, and Ecological Economics.
Kallur S. Murali is Senior Programme Officer in the Asia Regional Office,
International Development Research Centre, New Delhi, on Collaborative
Adaptation Research in Africa and Asia.
He also worked in various UN organizations, INGOs, and NGOs. His areas
of expertise include programme development, management, monitoring, and
review; climate change adaptation in river basin systems of South Asia;
biodiversity conservation through community participation; forest management
and degradation; coastal and marine ecosystem management; and
environmental impact assessments and environmental management.
He is a member of the Association of Tropical Biology, USA. He was also
Advisory Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Non-timber Forest Products,
India, and Editor for the Asian region of Management of Environmental
Quality: An International Journal.
He holds a PhD in Ecology from the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, and an MSc in Agriculture from the
University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India. He has published over
120 scientific papers and books.
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MSR Murthy is leading ICIMOD´s Geospatial Solutions Thematic Area. He
holds a PhD in Botany from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India.
He has over two decades of experience in forest resources assessment and
monitoring, biodiversity characterization and conservation, land use and land
cover mapping, forest carbon modelling, and climate change adaptation and
mitigation studies using remote sensing and GIS techniques.
As Head of the Forestry and Ecology Division, National Remote Sensing
Agency, Hyderabad, India, he developed operational remote sensing
applications in forestry and ecology, user interfaces, and capacity building. His
contributions include development of the Indian Forest Fire Response and
Assessment System, the Indian Rapid Land Use Land Cover Information
System, the Forest Inventory Data Analysis System, and the Indian Bio
Resources Information Network.
Dr Murthy was awarded the Astronautical Society of India ‘National Space
Gold Medal’ and the Indian Science Congress Association National Young
Scientist Award. He has published many papers in peer-reviewed national and
international journals.
Wu Ning is leading the Ecosystem Services Thematic Area at ICIMOD. He
was Director General of the Chengdu Institute of Biology (CIB), Chinese
Academy of Sciences, where he also previously worked as a professor, studying
alpine vegetation ecology, wetland ecology, rangeland ecology, and pastoral
development of the Tibetan Plateau.
He handled over 60 projects from the Ministry of Science and Technology of
China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and many
international organizations, and worked on two national projects on carbon
assessment of grasslands in southern China and ecological restoration of
degraded mountain ecosystems in the Hengduan Mountains.
Dr Wu Ning has an MSc in Plant Ecology from CAS and a PhD in Vegetation
Geography from the Free University of Berlin, where was a Research Fellow of
the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He has published over 150 articles
in international and national academic journals on forest ecology, alpine
rangeland, alpine timberline, restoration ecology, and geography of nomadic
pastoralism.
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Bob van Oort is a biologist, trained in the Groningen University,
Netherlands, and Tromsø University, Norway. He is Senior Research Fellow
at the Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo
(CICERO), leader of the research team “Social Dimensions of Change”
and co-lead of the HICAP project.
He contributes to two components of HICAP: “climate change scenarios”,
converting downscaled climate scenarios to comprehensible messages for
scientists, decision makers, the public and stakeholders; and “Ecosystem
services”, performing fieldwork and analysis of climate change and social
context on ecosystem services. His background as natural scientist and
research experience in the social sciences give him a trans-disciplinary
edge to communicate climate change issues.
Research interests and expertise include: Socio-ecological and livelihood
consequences of climate change, (payment for) ecosystem services, climate
services, health impacts, food production and food security. His main
geographical focus covers the Arctic, Nordic countries and the greater
Himalayan region.
Arnico Panday is Lead Atmospheric Scientist and Coordinator for ICIMOD´s
Atmosphere Initiative. He is also a Research Assistant Professor at the
Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia, and a
Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and
Planetary Sciences at MIT, both in the USA.
Arnico received a BSc in Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard
University, an MSc in Land Resources from the University of WisconsinMadison, and a DSc in Atmospheric Science from MIT, all in the USA.
His post-doctoral research, at MIT and at Princeton University’s Geophysical
Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, focused on atmospheric chemistry and physics
in mountain areas, notably studying the transport of polluted air from South
Asia towards the Tibetan Plateau (supported by the University of Virginia and
NASA). He also served as advisor and supervisor of the Rwanda Climate
Observatory Project. His interests also cover technologies and policies that
reduce emissions to the atmosphere as well as ways to design sustainable cities.
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Trilok Papola is one of India’s leading development economists with over
four decades of experience in teaching, research and advisory
assignments. Specialized in the areas of labour and employment,
development planning, industrial economics, regional development and
enterprise development, he has taught at the Universities of Lucknow,
Bombay and Cambridge, and the Indian Institute of Management. He also
published 14 books and over 120 research papers in reputed journals.
Dr Papola worked with international organisations such as ILO, UNCTAD,
UNIDO, UNICEF, UNDP and the Asian Development Bank, and was
President of the Indian Society of Labour Economics and of the Indian
Economic Association. He was also an Advisor to the Indian Planning
Commission, and a Member of the Prime Minister’s Council on Micro,
Small and Medium Enterprises.
Dr Papola now chairs the Board of Governors at the Giri Institute of
Development Studies, and the Council of Central Himalayan Environment
Association.
Anand Patwardhan teaches in the School of Public Policy at the University of
Maryland, USA, and is Chair Professor at the Shailesh Mehta School of
Management, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India.
He has worked extensively in the area of climate policy at the national and
multilateral level, focusing on mitigation and adaptation responses to climate
change, as well as on broader issues of science, technology, and innovation
policy.
He is a coordinating lead author for the Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC.
He is on the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the GEF, and on the
Steering Committee of UNEP´s Programme of Research on Vulnerability,
Impacts and Adaptation to Climate Change. He was also associated with the
Global Energy Assessment as coordinating lead author and co-chair of the
Executive Committee.
He served as Executive Director of the Technology Information, Forecasting,
and Assessment Council of the Indian Ministry of Science and Technology, and
Head at S. J. Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay.
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Pushkin Phartiyal, Executive Director of the Central Himalayan
Environment Association, leads developmental interventions on adaptation
strategies and livelihood-based management of natural resources by
strengthening environmental governance. He has 16 years of experience
working in the Himalayas, and was instrumental in launching the Indian
Mountain Initiative to reduce isolation, and influence policy for the benefit
of mountain people in India.
His received the 2012 Champion of Women’s Economic Empowerment
from The International Alliance for Women, USA, and an award for
grassroots innovation by the National Innovation Foundation. He is a
Fellow of LEAD, Ashoka, UNEP’s Eco-Peace Leadership Centre, and
UNEP’s Asia Pacific Leadership Programme.
Dr Phartiyal has Post-Graduate Degrees in Sociology and History, a PhD in
History and Post-Graduate Diplomas in Journalism & Mass
Communication and Tourism, undertook an Environmental Leadership
course from the University of California, and is a Fellow of the
Commonwealth Professional Fellowship, United Kingdom.
Hashim Popalzai is an Officer of Central Superior Services in the Ministry of
National Food Security and Research, Pakistan. He holds an MBBS degree and
a Master’s Degree in Demography from the University of Wales, UK.
He worked in the Federal Secretariat and served in the Establishment Division,
Ministry of Population Welfare and Planning and Development Division, as
well as Counsellor in the Community Welfare at Embassy of Pakistan in Doha,
Qatar.
Dr Popalzai served in the Pakistani National Institute of Population Studies,
where he conducted evaluative research on various components of the Ministry
of Population Welfare. Two of his research studies have been published.
Dr Popalzai has undergone training in disciplines of reproductive health,
project management, and financial management in public service from
international institutes. He remains a faculty member of the National
Management College – an apex institution for training civil servants of
Pakistan.
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SVRK Prabhakar works on issues related to climate change adaptation
and disaster risk reduction (DRR) with focus on risk insurance, synergies
between DRR and climate change adaptation, mainstreaming climate
change adaptation concerns into development planning and policies, loss
and damage, adaptation effectiveness indicators, adaptive policies, and
training needs assessment for capacity building. Earlier, as JSPS PostDoctoral Fellow working at Kyoto University, he conducted several research
projects on natural resource management and climate change implications
for disaster risk management in South and East Asian countries.
Prabhakar has more than 17 years of experience in participatory research
and development with international and national research and
developmental organizations such as ICRISAT, IARI, CIMMYT-RWC, UNDP,
NIDM & Kyoto University. He obtained a PhD in Field Crop Management
from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi in 2001. He
authored several peer reviewed publications and is a contributing author
to the fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC.
Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu is a four-time Member of the Lok Sabha from
Rajapur Constituency of Maharastra, India. He previously served as Industry
Minister, Minister of Environment and Forests, and Minister of Fertilizers and
Chemicals, India.
He holds an FCA from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, and an
LLB from the New Law College, Mumbai, India. He is also founder of the
student organization Youth For Democracy, as well as chairman of various
parliamentary forums.
Mr Prabhu believes in listening to criticism of the government’s policies to help
reorient the policies towards the greater common good, and believes in
people’s participation, especially through the involvement of NGOs and
people’s groups.
He published several columns on finance and economy in the daily “Mid
Day”, as well as articles in leading Marathi dailies, and has written extensively
on socioeconomic issues and youth.
He is Director and former Chairman of Saraswat Co-operation Bank.
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Gyanendra Lal Pradhan, hydropower specialist and entrepreneur, is an
electrical engineer by training. He is Executive Chairman at Hydro Solutions,
Chairman of the Energy Committee at the Federation of Nepalese Chambers
of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI), SAARC CCI Council on Climate Change,
Energy and Water Resources, and CACCI Asian Council on Water, Energy, and
Environment.
He is also Executive Member of the Canada-Nepal Business Chamber,
Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industry and various
other chambers of commerce and industry (Nepal-Russia, Nepal-German,
Nepal-China, Nepal-Britain, and SAARC-Nepal); and Special Member of the
Confederation of Asia-Pacific Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
As an energy and hydropower expert, he advised the Economic Advisory
Council of then Prime Minister of Nepal Dr Baburam Bhattarai in 2012, and
was a member of the Electricity Tariff Fixation Commission.
Mr Pradhan received several awards and recognition for his contributions to
the field of hydropower and clean energy including ‘Manager of the Year
Award’ from the Management Association of Nepal, ‘HYDRO Nepal
Excellence Award in Energy (Hydropower)’, and ‘Best Entrepreneur Award’
conferred by the Engineers’ Association of Nepal.
A. Atiq Rahman is a global leader on sustainable development,
environment, poverty and climate change. He was recently awarded the
UN Champion of the Earth award for his distinguished leadership in global
environmental issues, and was co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
He was also awarded the highest national environmental award by the
Government of Bangladesh, The Paribesh Padak 2008, for environmental
technology and innovation.
Dr Rahman is the Executive Director of the Bangladesh Centre for
Advanced Studies and a Lead Author of Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) Third and Fourth Assessment Reports. He played a
leading role in UNCED Intergovernmental Negotiations on Climate
Change (Rio, 1992) and the COP and Climate Summits in Kyoto (1997).
Dr Rahman is a Visiting Professor of International Diplomacy and
Sustainable Development at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts
University, Boston, USA, and Chairman of Climate Action Network South
Asia (CANSA).
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Sandhya Rao is currently the Executive Director of INRM Consultants, New
Delhi, which is a incubatee company established through TBIU system of
IIT Delhi.
She has been working in the area of water resources and natural resource
management for more than 25 years focusing extensively on issues related
to climate change.
Her area of expertise include hydrological, hydraulic modeling, climate
change impact assessment in water, agriculture sectors, health sector
including vulnerability and risk assessment. She has several international
and national published papers.
She holds a doctoral degree in water resources from the Indian Institute of
Technology, Delhi.
Golam Rasul, a development economist, is leading ICIMOD´s Livelihoods
Thematic Area. Prior to this, he served as Head of the Economic Analysis
Division at ICIMOD for approximately four years, and as a policy development
specialist at ICIMOD for approximately five years.
Dr Rasul holds a PhD in regional and rural development planning from the
Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand. He worked for more than a
decade in the Bangladesh Civil Service in different ministries and in field
administration in different capacities where he was involved in the formulation
and implementation of development planning and programming. Along with
development work, he has been actively involved in research in areas that
include agriculture, natural resource management, poverty alleviation, and
sustainable development in Bangladesh and the South Asian region.
His research findings have been published in many international journals and
four of his papers have appeared as ‘most read papers’ in their respective
journals on Science Direct.
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Pankaj Prasad Raturi is Head of Department at Dabur Nepal. He holds a
PhD and MSc in Botany and Plant Physiology from H.N.B. Garhwal University,
and an MBA from the Allahabad Agriculture Institute, both in India.
He specializes in agro-practices of medicinal and aromatic plants, industrial,
contractual farming, SCFE, nitrogen fixation, agroforestry, biodiversity
conservation, and plant ecology, wasteland management, biotechnology,
biochemistry, nursery and plantation technology, livelihoods promotion and
networking, good agricultural practices, and quality insurance work, mostly in
Nepal, India, and Bangladesh.
He conducted research on – among other things – cultivations and biotechniques of higher altitude medicinal plants, biodiversity conservation, seed
testing and viability, plant ecology, Rhizobium isolation and culture, soil and
plant nutrient analysis, nursery technology, field plantation and extension work,
nursery development, weed composting and the making of biobriquettes,
quality assurance work in the industry, beekeeping and the promotion and
socioeconomic development by promoting livelihood options.
He has published over 25 research papers in international and national
journals.
Trude Rauken is a research fellow at the Centre for International Climate and
Environmental Research-Oslo (CICERO). Her background is in political
economy and her research is predominantly on climate change adaptation
governance with a particular focus on the institutional capacity for adaptation.
She studies this capacity and adaptation governance at different levels of
government in Norway, India, and Nepal.
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N.H. Ravindranath, Professor for the Centre for Sustainable Technologies,
Indian Institute of Science, has focused his research, advocacy and
publications on climate change, mitigation and adaptation, forests,
bioenergy and ecosystem services. he is currently an advisor for a world
bank project on climate resilience forestry in Bangladesh, and working on
assessing the impact of climate change and forest ecosystems of river
basins of the Himalayas.
He published over 150 peer reviewed research papers, and eight books,
many of which on Climate Change, and contributed to several IPCC
Assessment Reports on Climate Change.
He was a member of the GEF Science Technology Advisory Panel for
Climate Change (2008 – 2012), and UNFCCC expert for greenhouse gas
inventory reports submitted to UN.
He is on the Editorial Board of four international journals, and a member
of various Expert Committees on Climate Change for the Government of
India and UN organizations.
Christopher A. Scott is Research Professor of Water Resources Policy at the
Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, and Professor of Geography and
Development, University of Arizona. He is engaged in research and
outreach on mountain water towers, river-basin water security, waterenergy-food nexus, water reuse, climate adaptation, and social-ecological
systems resilience, with recurring interests in the Himalayas.
Dr Scott leads projects funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation,
and wrote over one hundred peer-reviewed publications and nine edited
books. He is a member of the International Water Resources Association.
Dr Scott graduated in Engineering and Asian Studies from Swarthmore
College, and received his MS and PhD in Hydrology from Cornell
University. He served as Asia Regional Director for the International Water
Management Institute (where he also coordinated IWMI’s Nepal
programme); hydrologist for the U.S. Agency for International
Development (Washington, DC); and Mexico Program Leader for IWMI
(Guanajuato, Mexico).
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Salmanuddin Shah has a Master’s in International Relations from Karachi
University and is currently working at Focus Humanitarian Assistance, Pakistan.
He has vast experience working in activities related to disaster risk reduction
and emergency response, and believes that sustainable development can be
achieved through tripartite action and cooperation between the state, civil
society and business organizations.
His expertise includes programme development and resource mobilization,
project management, monitoring and evaluation, and research. He worked at
Agha Khan Education Services, Pakistan, as a teacher and coordinator. He
conducted and organized many trainings and workshops reaching community
teachers of the third world country and built their capacity to provide quality
education, which supports critical consciousness, intellectual competency, and
high moral values.
Mr Salman has taken part in numerous international conferences and
workshops on disaster management and climate change and travelled to many
countries, including Bangladesh, Malaysia, Nepal, Vietnam, Thailand,
Tajikistan, and the United States of America.
Anand Sharma is the Founder-Director of Meteorological Centre, IMD,
Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. Working for the past 25 years in various parts
of India with the India Meteorological Department, his wide-ranging
experience and responsibilities have included providing correct and timely
weather forecasts, advisories, and warnings; devising innovative methods to
issue weather forecast warnings for forest fires and landslides and weatherbased agro-advisories for farmers; popularized meteorology among the
masses; and sensitizing people about various environmental issues such as
climate variability, climate change, land use and land cover changes, water
conservation, and harvesting.
He also implemented the first ever U-PROBE project of the Department of
Science and Technology, Government of India, under which 93 meteorological
observatories were installed in government colleges.
He has an MPhil in Environmental Sciences from Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi, and an MSc in Agricultural Meteorology form Punjab Agricultural
University, Ludhiana. He has been trained in the USA (UNDP/WMO
Fellowship) and France on early warning systems and weather forecasting. He
is also a visiting faculty member at Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, and
Doon University.
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Eklabya Sharma is Director of Programme Operations at ICIMOD, with over
30 years of experience in sustainable natural resource management in the
Hindu Kush Himalayan region.
Dr Sharma has a PhD in ecology from Banaras Hindu University, India. He
established the GB Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development
in Sikkim, an autonomous regional research centre of the Indian Ministry of
Environment and Forests, as founder Scientist In-Charge.
Dr Sharma has received many national and international awards including the
Young Scientist Award of the Indian National Science Academy; Eminent
Scientist Award from the Ministry of Environment and Forests, (India); and
Honourable Mention Paper Award from the Soil and Water Conservation
Society (USA). He was elected Fellow of the National Institute of Ecology,
National Academy of Sciences, and Indian National Science Academy, India.
He has published over 160 works, mainly in peer-reviewed international
journals, and serves on the international editorial board of the journal
Mountain Research and Development.
Arun Bhakta Shrestha is a Senior Climate Change Specialist at ICIMOD and
Programme Manager for Regional Programmes on River Basins and
Cryosphere and Atmosphere.
Dr Shrestha holds a PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of New
Hampshire, USA, and a Master’s degree in Hydraulic Engineering from Minsk,
former USSR. He previously worked for the Department of Hydrology and
Meteorology, Nepal. His main areas of expertise include climate change,
glaciers and glacial hazards, glacial lake risk mitigation, atmospheric
environment, and hydrological modelling. He was involved in the Tsho Rolpa
Glacial Lake Outburst Flood Risk Reduction Project and the scientific team for
the preparation of the First National Communication of Nepal to the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
He has published several papers in peer-reviewed international journals,
national journals, and magazines, and is on the editorial panel for Geomatics,
Natural Hazards and Risk (Taylor and Francis), and Journal of Hydrology
Meteorology (Society of Hydrologists and Meteorologists, Nepal).
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Basanta Shrestha, Director of Strategic Cooperation at ICIMOD, provides
strategic leadership and partnership development to bring about
transformative change. Mr Shrestha has a Master’s in Engineering in
Computer Science from the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand,
and a Bachelor’s in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Madras
University, India.
Mr Shrestha, an experienced manager and team builder, is well-known for his
outstanding strategic leadership quality and his proven track-record of
networking around the world. He is a founder member of the Mountain
Environment and Natural Resources Information System (MENRIS) programme
at ICIMOD, widely known for its pioneering efforts in promoting the use of
earth observation and geospatial technologies for sustainable mountain
development. He has championed the successful partnerships with NASA and
USAID to spearhead SERVIR-Himalaya programme – a flagship initiative to
bridge technology and innovation to mountain development challenges.
Mr Shrestha has been granted a Presidential award and Special Achievement
Award by Environmental System Research Institute, USA.
Anu Joshi Shrestha joined ICIMOD in August 2009 as Value Chain
Development Specialist. She brings with her extensive experience in working
with development agencies and bi-lateral/multilateral organizations. Ms
Shrestha will be focusing on high-value product value chains, emphasizing the
equitable promotion of pro-poor value chains and strengthening rural-urban
linkages. Prior to joining ICIMOD, she worked as an Advisor on local and
regional economic development for GTZ INCLUDE, where she worked in the
value chain promotion of various potential sectors for economic development
in Palpa, Kapilbastu, and Rupendehi, Nepal, including serving as the focal
point for NTFP/MAPS value chains. Ms Shrestha has a strong interest in nature
conservation and worked with the National Trust for Nature Conservation as a
knowledge management officer. She was also a faculty member in Kathmandu
College of Management, Kathmandu University. She has an MBA from the
University of Wales, UK, specializing in marketing and human resources
development.
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Raminder Singh is a strategy and business development technocrat with over
34 years of experience of working with the government and private sectors.
Raminder brings in a unique blend of government, corporate, and private
sector understanding, creating value around responsible business practices.
His academic background includes a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and an
MBA with specialization in marketing from Punjab University, Chandigarh,
India. He has in-depth knowledge on rural marketing and rural community
development, and experience running programmes on rural livelihoods and
agri-marketing.
He is currently working as Account Director with Reuters Market Light (RML),
which offers a bouquet of information, communication, and marketplace
solutions for the farming and agricultural community. RML´s products, such as
RMLdirect, a personalized SMS-based information service covering all aspects
of farming from pre-sowing to post-harvest that has reached millions of Indian
farmers, are enabling the agricultural community across India to improve
productivity, lower costs, and increase incomes, thereby helping address key
national challenges.
Anil K. Sinha, Vice Chairman of Bihar State Disaster Management Authority
(BSDMA) with rank and status of a Cabinet Minister in the Government of
Bihar, has served the Indian Administrative Service in various positions in Bihar
and with the Government of India for about 30 years.
He has served as Relief Commissioner for the State of Bihar and Government
of India; Joint Secretary and Head of Natural Disaster Management Division,
Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture; Member
Secretary, High Powered Committee on Disaster Management; Executive
Director of National Center for Disaster Management, Government of India;
and Member Secretary of the National Working Group on Disaster
Management.
Mr. Sinha has also been associated with many international and
intergovernmental organizations in various capacities including the World
Bank; Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok; Team Leader of United
Nations Assistance Mission for Afghanistan for the preparation of their
National Disaster Management Plan; UNDP/IRP Secretariat, and Asian
Disaster Reduction Centre, Japan.
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Roland F. Steurer, born in 1953, received his Master’s Degree in
Economics in 1979 and his PhD. on “Rural Development and Agricultural
Marketing” in 1987 from Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany.
After being employed with the “International Fund for Agriculture
Development (IFAD)” in Rome, Italy, he joined German Development
Cooperation (GIZ) in 1988 as Chief Technical Advisor in Bangladesh and
in Bolivia. As GIZ Country Director, he has served in Bolivia, Sri Lanka,
Egypt and currently since late 2012, in Nepal. Dr Steurer’s professional
expertise is concentrated on strategic portfolio management, rural
development and microfinance as well as disaster risk management and
conflict transformation.
Su Yufang is a Deputy Director at the Center for Mountain Ecosystem Studies
(CMES), a joint center between ICRAF and Chinese Academy of Sciences
hosted by Kunming Institute of Botany. She has 20 years research experience in
natural resources governance, land tenure, and livelihood and land use
transition. Her current research focuses on local adaptation to climate change
and resource management in southwest China. Ms Su completed a Bachelor’s
degree programme on Geography at the Shanghai Teachers’ University in
China, received a Master’s degree on Sustainable Development at the Chiang
Mai University in Thailand, and is currently enrolled as a PhD candidate at the
Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand.
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Sunil Tankha teaches development policy at the International Institute of
Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. He holds a
PhD in Economic Development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and has lived and worked in South Asia, North and South America, and
Europe. He is a specialist in policy reforms and public services delivery and is
currently engaged in several research efforts focusing on policy and
institutional analyses for adaptation to climate change. He also has a keen
interest in mountain areas, and has studied and travelled extensively in all of
the world’s major mountain ranges.
Ganesh Thapa worked for the International Fund for Agricultural
Development (IFAD) from March 1998 to April 2014 as Regional
Economist for Asia and the Pacific Region, and as Country Programme
Manager for North Korea. He is currently a Visiting Scientist at the
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). He
has a PhD. in Agricultural Economics from Cornell University, USA, and
degrees from the University of the Philippines and G.B. Pant University of
Agriculture and Technology, India.
Earlier, he worked as Country Director for Winrock International in Nepal,
led a project on policy analysis in agriculture and natural resource
management, and served as Senior Economist for the Ministry of
Agriculture, Nepal. He undertook research and published books and
articles on risks, vulnerability and poverty reduction, sustainability of
microfinance, indigenous peoples and poverty reduction, effects of new
agricultural technologies on income distribution, constraints on agricultural
marketing, food security and environmental policies.
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Naba Bikram Kishore Tripura belongs to Bangladesh Civil Service of 1982
batch. He obtained his Master’s with honours in Business Administration from
the University of Dhaka. He also graduated from National Defence College,
Dhaka and National Defence College, Stockholm. For his participation as a
student in the War of Liberation in 1971 he received Samar Padak (war
medal). Before his appointment as Secretary to the Government in 2011, he
held and served with distinction in many command, staff, and instructional
positions during his long career in the police. He commanded a police
contingent in ‘Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti’ in 1994 and received
the ‘Commander’s Award for Public Service Medal’ from the Department of
Defence, USA.
Hari Krishna Upadhyaya has over three decades of senior-level professional
experience at national and international levels in various areas, including rural
and agricultural development, pro-poor planning and policy formulation,
rural/micro-finance, and seed sector development.
He is the founder and Executive Chairperson of CEAPRED, one of the largest
and most well-known professional NGOs of Nepal specialized in high-value
commercial agriculture. He was been publicly honoured for his contribution to
rural poverty reduction through CEAPRED.
Dr Upadhyaya has worked with the Government of Nepal at the highest policy
level as a Member of Nepal’s National Planning Commission from 2003 to
2005.
He holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of the
Philippines.
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Batu Krishna Uprety is an Expert Member of the Climate Change Council
and Former Head of the Climate Change Management Division in Nepal’s
Ministry of Environment, and was involved from 1983 to 2007 in
institutionalising the EIA system.
From 2007 to 2012, Mr Uprety worked on Nepal’s NAPA, LAPA and
Climate Change Policy, initiating preparation of SNC, TNA, PPCR and
SREP and developing NAPA prioritised projects. He was also engaged in
establishing coordination mechanisms and a Core Negotiating Team on
climate change, and facilitating Mountain Initiatives on climate change.
He published popular articles on environment conservation, biodiversity,
EIA and climate change in national newspapers, as well as two books on
EIA: Process and Practice, and Environmental Conservation and
Sustainable Development, and prepared proceedings on climate change
and the UNFCCC negotiation process, and on mainstreaming climate
change into mountain development. He received the Science and
Technology Talent Award in 2005, Philippine.
Ramesh Vaidya, is Senior Advisor at ICIMOD. His interest and experience is
in the economics and policy of water and energy in the context of regional
economic cooperation and climate change. He has served as National
Planning Commission member for water, energy and infrastructure, and later
as Nepal’s Ambassador to Japan, accredited concurrently to Australia, New
Zealand, and the Republic of Korea. During his tenure in the National
Planning Commission, the Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (1996) was
established and he served as its first Vice-Chairman on the Board. The
Hydropower Development Policy of Nepal (2001) and the Water Resources
Strategy of Nepal (2002) were also prepared during his tenure in the National
Planning Commission. Dr Vaidya has represented Nepal in several
international water and energy events, including the UN Commission on
Sustainable Development meetings.
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Tarun Vijay is a Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha (Uttarakhand, India),
President of the Parliamentary Group on India-China Friendship, Convener for
the BJP Parliamentary Party’s Research and Policy Studies Cell, and Member of
the Parliamentary Committee on Official Language, the BJP National
Executive, the Parliamentary Consultative Committee on the Ministry of External
Affairs, and the Board of Governors, Parliamentary Network on World Bank
and IMF.
He has been working on climate change and environmental issues in the
Garhwal Himalayas through tribal development projects, and on India-China
relations on a fellowship from Sichuan University.
He is Founder and Director of the India East Asia Research Foundation. He
conceptualized and organized the Indus Festival (Sindhu Darshan) in Ladakh,
and led India’s first Indus expedition from Demchhok to Batalik.
He is an environmentalist, tribal activist and a keen photographer and writer,
who has published 23 books in Hindi, Kannad, and English, and is a
columnist for 22 Indian newspapers.
Luis Waldmueller is a planning officer of GIZ’s (Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Internationale Zusammenarbeit) Rural Development and Agriculture Division.
He’s in charge of agriculture and climate change within the division and
responsible for technical advice to projects, carrying out project appraisal
missions, project progress reviews, and coordinating activities regarding
agriculture and climate change (thematic team on climate change and rural
development).
Before he worked as GTZ’s principle officer for the commission of the EU
co-financed project ‘Sustainable Agro-biodiversity Management in the
Mountain Areas of Southern China’, based in Beijing, China. With two
Master’s degrees, one in Soil and Water Engineering and one in Agriculture,
he has worked with GTZ for over 25 years and has gathered rich experience in
the implementation of projects in the field of sustainable management of
natural resources in rural areas in countries such as Bangladesh, Kenya, and
Tanzania.
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San Win is the Pro-Rector of the University of Forestry, Myanmar, and served
in the Ministry’s Forestry Department.
He obtained his MSc and PhD in forest management from the University of
Tsukuba, Japan, where he specialized in agroforestry and bamboo forest
management. He served as Forest Department forest ranger, and later worked
as researcher at the Forest Research Institute (FRI) and as Assistant Lecturer at
the University of Forestry. He later served at the National Commission for
Environmental Affairs (NCEA) as Director and Joint Secretary.
He has been a focal point for the Global Environment Facility (GEF), Montreal
Protocol, POPs, and WGE in the Asian Region, and worked as project director
for the Initial National Communication funded by GEF and administered by
the UNFCCC during his tenure at the NCEA.
He was twice awarded a fellowship from the International Tropical Timber
Organization, and received two scholarships from the United Nations Institute
for Training and Research for e-learning courses.
Yang Yongping is Deputy Director and Professor of Botany at the Kunming
Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences (KIBCAS). He received a BSc
from Lanzhou University and an MSc from KIBCAS. He is a member of the
China Society on Tibetan Plateau, American Society of Ethnobiology, and
Botanical Societies of China and Yunnan, as well as a committee member of
Rare and Endangered Species of China.
His is specialized in the phylogeny, ethnobotany, and biogeography of useful
plants in southwest China, and in plant adaptation and evolution molecular
mechanism in the extreme environment of the Tibetan Plateau and the
Himalayan alpine regions. He has authored 133 papers, 5 monographs, and
1 authorized patent, and has been named ‘Young Scientific and Technological
Academic Leader of Yunnan Province’ since 2004.
As team leader of the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research in Kunming, he is
focusing on the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayan alpine regions.
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Robert Zomer is a landscape ecologist with a broad background in plant
community, forest, and agricultural ecology and advanced skills in statistical
analysis, geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, environmental
modeling, and landscape analysis.
He is visiting Professor at the Center for Mountain Ecosystem Studies, Kunming
Institute of Botany, and Senior Landscape Ecologist at the World Agroforestry
Centre - East and Central Asia Region. He has many years of experience
working in the Himalayas and throughout Asia, including at ICIMOD in Nepal,
the International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka, and the
International Center for Research in Agroforestry in Kenya. His current research
focuses on the application of advanced spatial tools at global to local levels,
ecosystem management, and the impacts of climate change on terrestrial
ecosystems and biodiversity conservation.
As a Lead Researcher within the IDRC-funded Asian Highlands ‘Building
Effective Water Governance’ project, he is coordinating climatic and
hydrological modelling activities throughout the Hindu Kush Himalayan region.
Krishna Chandra Paudel is Secretary of the Ministry of Science, Technology
and Environment, Government of Nepal. He has more than 30 years of
experience in various government positions, including as Secretary of the
Water and Energy Commission, Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation
(MoFSC); Chief Administrator for the Eastern Development Region; and Chief
of the Environment Division, MoFSC. Dr Paudel has led several delegations of
the Government of Nepal in international negotiations, and has served as the
national focal person for UNFCCC, CBD, and Ramsar conventions, as well as
other international positions. He is a permanent academician with the Nepal
Academy of Science and Technology.
Dr Paudel has contributed various scientific papers in international journals,
and edited a number of publications. He holds a PhD from BOKU, the
University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Austria, and a
Master’s degree from the University of Wales, United Kingdom.
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Govind Raj Pokharel is Vice Chairperson of the National Planning
Commission of Nepal. He has over ten years of direct management experience
as an executive director of various government institutions and NGOs, and
over 20 years of experience in the academic field. He served for three years as
Manager at SNV Netherlands Development Organisation based in various
locations in South Asia.
Under his leadership, the Government of Nepal’s Alternative Energy Promotion
Centre (AEPC) was recognized as a focal point for promoting renewable
energy in Nepal and access to renewable sources of energy in the country
increased.
He was Professor at the Industrial and Mechanical Engineering Department,
Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. He has authored and
co-authored numerous research papers on sustainable energy, climate
change, policy, and technical aspects of renewable energy technologies and
financing.
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List of participants
Listed by country of residence
AFGHANISTAN
BHUTAN
Abdul Ahad, abdul.ahad@akdn.org
Rekha Chhetri, rehkha@hotmail.com
Mir Aqa, Mir.Aqa@tolo.tv
Kuenzang Choden
A. Azim Doosti, azim.doosti@unep.org
Pema Drukpa
Nabila Horakhsh, nabilahorakhsh@yahoo.com
Cheki Dorji
Ahmad Jamshed Khoshbeen
Tsheten Dorji
Shaista Langari, shaista.langari@yahoo.com
Phub Gyeltshen
Ghulam Mohammad Malikyar
Kuenga Namgay, knamgay@moaf.gov.bt
Alimuddin Naseri, alimuddin.naseri@akdn.org
Tshering Palden, kinji1983@gmail.com
M. Arif Noorzai
Jigmi Rinzin
M. Daoud Qazizada
Surja Man Thapa, surja@bbs.bt
M. Rafi Qazizada
Rinchen Wangdi
Abdul Mateen Salek, abmateensalek@yahoo.com
Tshering Wangdi
Noorgul Shirzoy, usernoor@yahoo.co.uk
Rinzin Wangchuk, dz_editor@kuensel.com.bt
Dorji Wangchuk, director.cnr@rub.edu.bt
BANGLADESH
Farid Uddin Ahmed, info@arannayk.org
Md. Abdul Mozid Shah Akond,
akondmozid@yahoo.com
Md. Alamgir Hossain, alamgir4158@yahoo.com
CANADA
Bernard Cantin, bcantin@idrc.ca
CHINA
Mohammad Rafiqul Islam, rafiq.sylhet@yahoo.com
Cao Jie, caoj@ynu.edu.cn
Dwijen L. Mallick, dwijen.mallick@bcas.net
Cong Zhiyuan, zhiyuancong@itpcas.ac.cn
Kyasingmong Marma, mong.marma@gmail.com
Dong Suocheng, dongsc3@163.com
Md. Kawser Uddin Maruf, kawser@esdo.org
Feng Pan, xn99szpf@126.com
Nazmun Mita, nazmun.mita@yahoo.com
Feng Yan, fengyan@ynu.edu.cn
Monirul Islam Monu, monubbn@gmail.com
Gong Hede, gonghede3@163.com
Amrita Mukherjee, amukherjee@ucdavis.edu
Ji Xuan, jixuan@ynu.edu.cn
Atiq Rahman, atiq.rahman50@gmail.com
Li Rong, rongli@ynu.edu.cn
Pinaki Roy, roybengal@yahoo.co.uk
Liu Suxia, liusx@igsnrr.ac.cn
NBK Tripura, nbkt@dhaka.net
Li Zhuoqing, 706665597@qq.com
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Long Ruijun - Longrj@lzu.edu.cn
Sara Ahmed, sahmed@idrc.ca
Luo Peng - luopeng@cib.ac.cn
Arivudai Nambi Appadurai,
NAppadurai@wri.org
Ou Xiaoou - ou-xiaoou@hotmail.com
Sailesh Ranjitkar - S.Ranjitkar@cgiar.org
Song Jingyi - sjysjy0826@hotmail.com
Su Yufang - suyufang@mail.kib.ac.cn
Sun Dajiang - dajiang38@hotmail.com
Sun Geng - sungeng@cib.ac.cn
Wang Wenling - wangwl@ynu.edu.cn
Xu Jianchu - jxu@mail.kib.ac.cn
Yang Shuo - 965991518@qq.com
Yang Yongping - yangyp@mail.kib.ac.cn
Zhang Liyun - zhangliyun@ynu.edu.cn
Zhao Qun - zhaoqun25@hotmail.com
Robert Zomer - R.Zomer@cgiar.org
Zou Yahui - zou-yahui@163.com
Kirtiman Awasthi, kirtiman@ihcap.in
VK Bahuguna, bahugunaifs@gmail.com
Ranjita Bania, ranjitabania@gmail.com
Anamika Barua, anamika@saciwaters.org
Suruchi Bhadwal, suruchib@teri.res.in
Sujata Bhattacharya, sujata0685@gmail.com
Amar Chanchal, amarchanchal@gmail.com
Partha J. Das, partha@aaranyak.org
Hosagrahar Dhattatreya, dhattatreyah@gmail.com
V.K. Gaur, gaur@cmmacs.ernet.in
Elizabeth Gogoi, giovanna.gioli@zmaw.de
Sumeet Keswani, whimsical.shutterbug@gmail.com
Shimpy Khurana, shimpy@ihcap.in
Janine Kuriger, janine.kuriger@sdc.net
GERMANY
Arabinda Mishra, amishra@teri.res.in
Tobias Bolch, tobias.bolch@geo.uzh.ch
Divya Mohan, divya.mohan@teri.res.in
Christiana Figueres, secretariat@unfccc.int
Kallur Subrammanyam Murali, kmurali@idrc.ca
Giovanna Gioli, giovanna.gioli@zmaw.de
Vishal Narain, vishalnarain@mdi.ac.in
Joe Hill, jhill@uni-bonn.de
T.V. Padma, tvpadma_10@yahoo.co.in
Rojina Manandhar, RManandhar@unfccc.int
T.S. Papola, trilokp41@gmail.com
Jürgen Scheffran, juergen.scheffran@zmaw.de
Pushkin Phartiyal, pushkin.lead@gmail.com
Uwe Schneider, uwe.schneider@zmaw.de
Suresh Prabhu, sprabhu@sansad.nic.in
Luis Waldmueller, luis.waldmueller@giz.de
Subash Prasad Rai, subashbitsindri@gmail.com
Sandhya Rao, sandhya.mrigasira@gmail.com
INDIA
N.H. Ravindranath, ravi@ces.iisc.ernet.in
Rajendra P. Agarwalla,
rajendra.agarwalla@gmail.com
Tripathi Satyendra, satyendratripathee@gmail.com
Pramod Kumar Aggarwal,
p.k.aggarwal@cgiar.org
Rafi Ahmad, rafi00129@gmail.com
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Ghanashyam Sharma, banstolag@yahoo.co.in
Anand Kumar Sharma, mcdehradun@yahoo.co.in
Subrat Sharma, subrats63@gmail.com
Satyarup Siddhanta,
satyarup.siddhanta@gmail.com
Prasoon Singh, Prasoon.Singh@teri.res.in
Deepa Basnet, basnetdeepaji@gmail.com
Aditya Bastola, adityabastola@gmail.com
Raminder Jit Singh, raminder.singh@rmlglobal.com
Pooja Bhattarai,
Pooja.Bhattarai@icco-cooperation.org
Rohan Singh, rohu18april@yahoo.com
Shankar Bhattarai, SBhattarai@snvworld.org
Anil K. Sinha, vice_chair@bsdma.org
Dilli Bhattarai, bhattarai.dilli@gmail.com
Amar Singh Thakur, amar61365thakur@gmail.com
Ramesh Bhushal, ramesh.bhushal@thethirdpole.net
Prakash C. Tiwari, pctiwari@yahoo.com
Niranjan Bista, bistaniranjan@gmail.com
Sanjay Tomar, S.Tomar@cgiar.org
Floriane Clement, f.clement@cgiar.org
Tarun Vijay, tarunvijay2@yahoo.com
Piyush Dahal, piyush@smallearth.org.np
Sangita Dandekhya, sangeeta@geosp.com
ITALY
Fabrizio Bresciani, f.bresciani@ifad.org
Elisa Palazzi, e.palazzi@isac.cnr.it
JAPAN
SVRK Prabhakar, prabhakar@iges.or.jp
Binaya Raj Shivakoti, shivakoti@iges.or.jp
Manjeet Dhakal,
manjeet.dhakal@climateanalytics.org
Reshu Aryal Dhungana, reshuaryal@yahoo.com
Kunda Dixit, kunda@nepalitimes.com
Sumit Dugar, sumitdugar@hotmail.com
Subash Ghimire, subash_ghimire@ku.edu.np
Ganesh Gurung, drganesh.gurung@gmail.com
KYRGYZSTAN
Katherine Hall, katherine.hall.au@gmail.com
Christian Hergarten,
christian.hergarten@ucentralasia.org
MYANMAR
Romi Gurung,
Dipak Gyawali, dipakgyawali@ntc.net.np
Tikeshwari Joshi, tikeshwari.joshi@gmail.com
Keshab Joshi, keshab.joshi@ceapred.org.np
Madhav Karki, madhav.karki@gmail.com
Nyunt Khaing, nyuntkhaing@gmail.com
Mona Laczo, mona.laczo@np.bbcmediaaction.org
Joern Kristensen, jkristensen@iid.org
Anupa Rimal Lamichhane,
anupa.lamichhane@undp.org
Tin Maung Lwin, tanmglwin@gmail.com
Yu Myat Mon, yuyumyat22@gmail.com
Khin Su Wai, jasminekhin@gmail.com
San Win, sanwin.env@gmail.com
NEPAL
Pradip Maharjan, pradip.maharjan@aec-fncci.org
Bivekananada Mahat,
bivekanandamahat@gmail.com
Ari Nathan, nathanA@state.govt
Sushil Neupane
Bashu Aryal, b.aryal@ifad.org
Naresh Newar, nareshnewar@hotmail.com
Krishna Adhikari, krishrss@hotmail.com
Bhrikuti Rai, bhrikutir@nepalitimes.com
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Om Astha Rai, oasura@gmail.com
Pankaj Prasad Raturi, pankaj.raturi@dabur.com
Bharati Pathak, bharatipathak_2006@yahoo.com
Prabha Pokhrel, prabha@idsnepal.org
Gyanendra Lal Pradhan, glp2067@gmail.com
Meeta Sainju Pradhan, mpradhan@mountain.org
Sabina Pradhan
Snehalata Sainjoo, sainjoo.snehalata@gmail.com
Manfred Seebauer, manfred.seebauer@giz.de
Gayatri Sharma, gayatrisharma@ribb.org.np
Vijay Singh, vijaya.singh@undp.org
Birkha Bahadur Shahi, birkha.shahi1@gmail.com
Pragati Shahi, pragati.govrno@gmail.com
Bim Prasad Shrestha, shrestha@ku.edu.np
Jay Pal Shrestha, ShresthaJP@state.gov
Kanchan Shrestha, kanchan@dzifoundation.org
Andrew Steela, andrew12steele@gmail.com
Roland F. Steurer, roland.steurer@giz.de
Fraser Sugden, f.sugden@cgiar.org
Nani Maiya Sujakhu, nanu.sujakhu@gmail.com
Ganesh B. Thapa, ganeshbthapa@gmail.com
Ishana Thapa, ishana@birdlifenepal.org
Keshab Thapa –
Deepak Thapa, dthapa@soscbaha.org
Satananda Upadhaya, jumlacerana@gmail.com
Parshuram Upadhyay, info@navin.org.np
Hari K. Upadhyaya,
hari.upadhyaya@ceapred.org.np
ICIMOD (NEPAL)
(Email: firstname.lastname@icimod.org)
Gopilal Acharya
Lipy Adhikari
Nand Kishor Agrawal
Farid Ahmad
Soumyadeep Banerjee
Deepa Basnet
Laxmi Dutt Bhatta
Suman Bisht
Devjit Roy Chowdhury
Dhrupad Choudhury
Tashi Dorji
Erling Valdemar Holmgren
Rucha Ghate
Shekhar Ghimire
Deo Raj Gurung
Dipshika Gurung
Nira Gurung
Chanda Gurung Goodrich
Abid Muhammad Hussain
Muhammad Ismail
Abdul Wahid Jasra
Sami Joshi
CBS Kansakar
Bhaskar S Karky
Umesh Khanal
Shiva Hari Khatri
Batu Krishna Uprety, upretybk@gmail.com
Rajan Kotru
Suraj Vaidhya, surajvaidya14@gmail.com
Iris C.P. Leikanger
Utsav Maden
Dharma Maharjan
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Rajendra Prakash Mali
Prerna Thapa
Judith Marechal
Shariar M Wahid
David Molden
Philippus Wester
Aditi Mukherji
Haiya Zhang
Manchiraju Murthy
Santosh Nepal
Wu Ning
Arnico Panday
Anju Pandit
Pooja Pathak
Aneel Piryani
Neera Shrestha Pradhan
Poonam Pradhan
Monika Pradhan
Anjal Prakash
Anja Rasmussen
NETHERLANDS
Hester Biemans, hester.biemans@wur.nl
Hasse Goosen, Hasse.Goosen@wur.nl
Annemarie Groot, annemarie.groot@wur.nl
Adish Khezri, a.khezri@utwente.nl
Luuk Masselink, Luuk.Masselink@wur.nl
Eddy Moors, eddy.moors@wur.nl
Christian Siderius, christian.siderius@wur.nl
Tanya Singh, Tanya.Singh@wur.nl
Sunil Tankha, tankha@iss.nl
Arbind Man Tuladhar, a.m.tuladhar@utwente.nl
Saskia Werners, saskia.werners@wur.nl
Golam Rasul
Omaid Seddiqi
Amy Sellmyer
Naina Shakya
Yi Shaoliang
Eklabya Sharma
Jemima Diki Sherpa
Basanta Shrestha
Anu J. Shrestha
Arun Bhakta Shrestha
Krisha Shrestha
NORWAY
Tor Aase, tor.aase@cicero.oslo.no
Bjorn Alfthan, bjorn.alfthan@grida.no
Kristin Halvorsen, kristin.halvorsen@cicero.oslo.no
Lawrence Hislop, Lawrence.Hislop@grida.no
Nina Holmelin, nina.holmelin@cicero.oslo.no
Trude Rauken, trude.rauken@cicero.oslo.no
Anne Solgaard, asolgaard@me.com
Bob van Oort, bvo@cicero.oslo.no
PAKISTAN
Rashmi Kiran Shrestha
Murtaza Javed Abbasi, dy_speaker@na.gov.pk
Marjorie van Strien
Bashir Ahmad, dr.bashir70@gmail.com
Bhawana Syangden
Sher Ahmed, sherahmed2001pk@gmail.com
Deependra Tandukar
Amjad Ali, amjad.ali@giz.de
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Aneeqa Azeem, aneeqa.azeem@gmail.com
Faizul Bari, drfaizulbari12@yahoo.com
Sikandar Hayat Khan Bosan
Atta Elahi, attaelahi65@yahoo.com
RUSSIA
Iurii Badenkov, yubaden@mail.ru
SINGAPORE
Asit K. Biswas, akbiswas@thirdworldcentre.org
Shaukat Fiaz, dfochitral@gmail.com
Khadim Hussain, khadim_glt2000@yahoo.com
Ahsan Iqbal
Allah Bakhas Kausar,
ab.kausar@focushumanitarian.org
SRI LANKA
Miriam Lindwer, miriam@mdfsa.lk
SWEDEN
Mats Eriksson, mats.eriksson@siwi.org
Babar Khan, bkhan@wwf.org.pk
Muhammad Humayun Khan,
humayun04@hotmail.com
SWITZERLAND
Khurshid Ali Khan, khurshid2006@gmail.com
Antonia Sutter, antonia.sutter@eda.admin.ch
Stéphanie Jaquet, stephanie.jaquet@cde.unibe.ch
Sherzad Ali Khan, sherzad@akrsp.org.pk
Jan Muhammad Khan, jmkhan1965@yahoo.com
Adnan Khan, adnan.khan@giz.de
Adalat Khan, kadalat1@yahoo.com
Muhammad Saleem Malik,
saleemwrri@gmail.com
Usman Mirza, umirza@lead.org.pk
Erik Chavez, erik.chavez07@imperial.ac.uk
Nathan Forsythe, nathan.forsythe@newcastle.ac.uk
Maria Shamdegona,
m.shahgedanova@reading.ac.uk
Andrew Turner, a.g.turner @ reading.ac.uk
Naveed Mustafa, rananaveedgis@gmail.com
USA
Shahid Naeem, shahid.613@gmail.com
Sabrina Abu-Hamdeh, Abu-HamdehSZ@state.gov
Khadija Nisar, khadija.nisar@gmail.com
Ashok Gurung, gurunga@newschool.edu
Arjumand Nizami,
arjumand.nizami@helvetas.org
Anand Patwardhan, apat@umd.edu
Shaukat Mahmood Piracha,
smpiracha@yahoo.com
Christopher Scott, cascott@u.arizona.edu
Muhammad Hashim Popalzai,
hashimp@hotmail.com
Shakeel Ramay, shakeel@sdpi.org
Salmanuddin Shah,
salman.shah@focushumanitarian.org
Saleem Shaikh, saleemzeal@gmail.com
Veronika Utz, veronika.utz@giz.de
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UNITED KINGDOM
Pam Pearson, pam@iccinet.org
Katalyn Voss, katalynvoss@gmail.com
General information for participants
November is the beginning of winter in Kathmandu, Nepal. The temperature varies from
6-22 °Celsius, with average daytime temperatures around 15°C (about 59°F). There is very
little chance of rain in this season, but showers can occur. Warm clothing and jackets are
recommended, particularly for nighttime. Weather forecasts as of now indicate clear, sunny
days for the duration of the event. Dress code for all conference and social events is smart
casual. As a field visit to Godavari is planned on the first day of the event, please also carry
comfortable shoes, an umbrella and plenty of sunscreen.
For more general information on Kathmandu, visit online travel portals like
www.lonelyplanet.com or www.tripadvisor.com.
Event Venues
Day 1: 9 November 2014 (Sunday)
Morning field visit (Optional)
ICIMOD Knowledge Park at Godavari
Web: www.icimod.org/godavari
Arrangement for transportation will be provided from the hotel to Godavari and to ICIMOD.
Lunch will be served at Godavari Knowledge Park.
Afternoon Inauguration
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
Khumaltar, Lalitpur
G.P.O. Box 3226, Kathmandu, Nepal
Tel: (977) 1 5003222
Fax: (977) 1 5003299, 5003277
Web: http://www.icimod.org
Map: http://goo.gl/jkWqqo
Arrangement for transportation will be provided from the hotel to ICIMOD. Please be ready at
12:45 hrs sharp in the lobby of the hotel.
Days 2-4: 10-12 November 2014
Soaltee Crowne Plaza Kathmandu
Tahachal, Kathmandu
P O Box 97 Kathmandu, Nepal
Hotel front desk: 977-1-4273999
Hotel fax: 977-1-427555
Web: www.crowneplaza.com/kathmadu
Map: goo.gl/Aqlo9d
For guests staying at Hotel Himalaya and Hotel Annapurna, transportation will be arranged to
and from the Soaltee. Please be ready by 08:00 hrs sharp in the lobby.
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Ground Transportation
For international participants whose accommodation is being arranged by ICIMOD, ICIMOD
will coordinate with the respective hotels to arrange airport pickups and will provide buses to
and from conference events when necessary. For your return journey, transport from the hotel
to the airport will also be provided. You are requested to check with your hotel about the time
of departure.
Nepali participants and international participants handling their own accommodation in
Kathmandu will need to make their own transportation arrangements.
Accommodation for international participants
Soaltee Crowne Plaza Kathmandu
Tahachal, Kathmandu
P O Box 97 Kathmandu, Nepal
Hotel Front Desk: 977-1-4273999
Hotel Fax: 977-1-427555
Web: www.crowneplaza.com/kathmadu
Map: goo.gl/Aqlo9d
Hotel Himalaya
Sahid Sukra Marg, Lalitpur, Kathmandu
P.O. Box 2141
Hotel Fax: 977-1-5523909
Web: www.hotelhimalaya.com.np
Map: goo.gl/8gwjgQ
Hotel Annapurna
Durbar Marg, Kathmandu, Nepal
P.O. Box 104
Hotel Fax: 977-1-4225236
Web: www.annapurna.com.np
Map: goo.gl/tWpsLV
Meals
Breakfast is included in the room rate for international participants staying in accommodation
arranged by ICIMOD
Lunch will be provided for all participants on 10, 11, and 12 November. Lunch will also be
provided for participants who take part in the Godavari visit on 9 November.
Dinner. All participants will be welcome at the reception dinner sponsored by ICIMOD on 10
November. All other dinner arrangements must be made independently.
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Currency
Facilities for currency exchange are available at the hotel and at banks. Several central areas
in the city also have money exchange centres. All convertible currencies are accepted. As of
October 2014, 1 USD is equivalent to 98.50 Nepali Rupees.
Mobile Coverage
Prepaid SIM mobile service provider NCELL will be available for purchase from the NCELL
stall at the inaugural event on 9 November at ICIMOD premises. A passport photo and a
copy of your passport are required
Electricity
220 volts AC, 50Hz. There are frequent extended periods of power cuts, but these should not
affect international participants staying in the hotels arranged by ICIMOD.
Contact Information
For any assistance during your stay in Nepal, you are welcome to contact the following
numbers.
Conference organizing team:
adapthkh@icimod.org
Mr Nand Kishor Agrawal
nandkishor.agrawal@icimod.org,
Tel: +977-1-5003222 Ext (228)
Mobile: +977 981-8518811
Ms Krisha Shrestha
krisha.shrestha@icimod.org,
Tel: +977-1-5003222 Ext (232)
Mobile: +977 9851050601
Ms Jemima Diki Sherpa
jemima.sherpa@icimod.org,
Tel: +977-1-5003222 Ext (238)
Mobile: +977 980-8844578
Ms Iris Leikanger
Iris.leikanger@icimod.org,
Tel: +977-1-5003222 Ext (275)
Mobile: +977 9803805955
Marketplace and Poster queries:
Ms Bhawana Syangden
Bhawana.syangden@icimod.org,
Tel: +977-1-5003222 Ext (232)
Mobile: + 977 9841336503
HI-AWARE Working Methodology
Meeting queries:
Mr Aneel Piryani
aneel.piryani@icimod.org,
Tel: +977-1-5003222 Ext (215)
Mobile: +977 9803019498
Himalica Regional Workshop on Impact
Pathways queries:
Ms Bhawana Syangden
Bhawana.syangden@icimod.org,
Tel: +977-1-5003222 Ext (232)
Mobile: +977 9841336503
Water and Air Workshop queries
Ms Sarita Joshi
sarita.joshi@icimod.org,
Tel: +977-1-5003222 Ext (261)
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REGISTRATION
CONFERENCE MANAGEMENT
MEGHA
VIP ROOM
MALHAR
MALSHREE
BUSINESS
CENTRE
ROSE GARDEN
BOARD
ROOM
Venue map
SOALTEE
Map of Kathmandu City
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Sites of conference visits
Sites of visits conducted as part of the conference (visit to Godavari Knowledge
Park on the morning of 9th November and Patan Durbar Square on the evening
of the 11th)
ICIMOD KNOWLEDGE PARK AT GODAVARI
The ICIMOD Knowledge Park at Godavari, on the southern slopes of the Kathmandu
Valley, was set up in March 1993, following the generous provision of 30 hectares
of land by His Majesty’s Government of Nepal in November 1992. The site was
originally named the ‘Godavari Trial and Demonstration Site’, and was intended for
testing and demonstration of various methodologies related to integrated mountain
development and sustainable farming practices on the sloping land of the mid-hills of
the Hindu Kush Himalayan region.
The site provides a practical pendant to the often more theoretical activities of the
Centre – a place where different technologies, farming and other practices useful for
sustainable development can be tested, selected, and demonstrated; where farmers
and those who work with them can be trained; and which can serve as a repository
for plant germplasm resources and associated floral and faunal biodiversity. The
activities help underpin ICIMOD’s focus on the two major issues challenging the
region: the reduction of poverty and the conservation of the natural resource base.
All plants are grown under organic conditions, without inputs of inorganic fertiliser
or pesticides. Thus the test results reflect the results that could be obtained by the
mostly poor farmers in remote areas of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas who have little
access to and cannot afford commercial agricultural inputs.
PATAN DURBAR SQUARE
Patan Durbar Square is situated at the centre of Lalitpur city, originally a separate
kingdom to Kathmandu. It is one of the three Durbar Squares (temple squares built
opposite the royal palaces of Newar kings) in the Kathmandu Valley, all of which
are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. One of its attractions is The Ancient Royal
Palace where Malla Kings of Lalitpur resided.
Surrounding the main square are several royal and religious structures, which
hightlight the Hindu pantheon, particularly Vishnu, Brahma, and Shiva. The
courtyards and streets of Patan showcase traditional Newari architecture, Buddhist
and Hindu traditions and give a glimpse of the rich history of this part of Nepal.
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With thanks to the conference team
Advisory
David Molden (ICIMOD)
Eklabya Sharma (ICIMOD)
Asun St. Clair (DNVGL)
Core Team
Nand Kishor Agrawal
Dhrupad Choudhury
Iris C. P. Leikanger
Jemima Diki Sherpa
Krisha Shrestha
Anne Solgaard (GRID-Arendal)
Bhawana Syangden
With support from
Laxmi D. Bhatta
Suman Bisht
Tashi Dorji
Abdul Wahid Jasra
Sushil Pandey
Anju Pandit
Monika Pradhan
Yi Shaoling
Neera Shrestha Pradhan
Anjal Prakash
Naina Shakya
Conference Organizing Committee
Farid Ahmad
Rucha Ghate
Shekhar Ghimire
Chanda Gurung Goodrich
Erling Valdemar Holmgren
Rajan Kotru
Aditi Mukherji
MSR Murthy
Wu Ning
Anja Møller Rasmussen
Golam Rasul
Arun B. Shrestha
Basanta Shrestha
Philippus Wester
Knowledge Management and
Communication
Gopilal Acharya
Bjorn Alfthan (GRID-Arendal)
Jitendra Raj Bajracharya
Smita Ghimire
Nira Gurung
Shiva Hari Khatri
Utsav Maden
Dharma R Maharjan
Judith Marechal
Poonam Pradhan
Amy Sellmyer
Deependra Tandukar
Haiya Zhang
Facilitators
Miriam Lindwer (MDF Asia)
Andrew Steele (Leading Edge Pvt Ltd)
Logistics and Procurement
Narendra Bajracharya
Sami Joshi
Chandra Bir Singh Kansakar
Rishi KC
Sudama KC
Prerna Thapa
Motorpool Unit
Travel Unit
Finance
Rajendra P. Mali
Pramila Shrestha
IT Team
Saisab Pradhan
Rakshya Roy
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Note
About ICIMOD
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, ICIMOD, is a regional
knowledge development and learning centre serving the eight regional member countries of
the Hindu Kush Himalayas – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar,
Nepal, and Pakistan – and based in Kathmandu, Nepal. Globalization and climate change
have an increasing influence on the stability of fragile mountain ecosystems and the
livelihoods of mountain people. ICIMOD aims to assist mountain people to understand these
changes, adapt to them, and make the most of new opportunities, while addressing
upstream-downstream issues. We support regional transboundary programmes through
partnership with regional partner institutions, facilitate the exchange of experience, and
serve as a regional knowledge hub. We strengthen networking among regional and global
centres of excellence. Overall, we are working to develop an economically and
environmentally sound mountain ecosystem to improve the living standards of mountain
populations and to sustain vital ecosystem services for the billions of people living
downstream – now, and for the future.
Organized by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development and
Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (MoSTE)
ICIMOD gratefully acknowledges the support of its core donors: the Governments of
Afghanistan, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal,
Norway, Pakistan, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
GPO Box 3226, Kathmandu, Nepal
Tel +977-1-5003222 Fax +977-1-5003299
Email info@icimod.org Web www.icimod.org

Mountain People Adapting to Change

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