📋 Tender Overview
ICIMOD is a regional intergovernmental knowledge and learning center serving its eight member countries in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region. SDC support towards strengthening ICIMOD’s role as an enabler of regional cooperation and informed policy dialogue will benefit mountain communities through green, climate resilient and inclusive development, while profiting from Swiss thematic expertise.
Country/region Topic Period Budget
Asia
SouthAsiaregional
Climate change and environment
Water
Environmental policy
Disaster risk reduction DRR
Water sector policy
01.12.2022 - 31.12.2026
CHF 5’000’000
The project in brief
Background With its vast reserves of snow and ice, the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region (HKH) is the source of ten large Asian river systems that provide water and ecosystem services to more than 210 million people and supply water downstream to nearly 2 billion people. The HKH region has experienced significant changes in the past ten years, threatening the indispensable goods and services the HKH provides to high- and lowlands: rapid population growth, economic and infrastructure development, urbanization. But most prominently, the HKH region has gained worldwide attention as hotspot of climate change, and its recent worsening impacts are already having serious consequences for people and ecosystems. There is, however, a significant gap in the understanding of these processes that limit capacities to inform action and decisions. Moreover, the 8 member countries ICIMOD serves - Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan – expressed the need for strengthened cooperation at all levels across the region. ICIMOD is well-positioned to support the region overcome these challenges.
Objectives The overall objective for SDC in the partnership with ICIMOD is to contribute to a greener, more inclusive and climate resilient Hindu Kush Himalaya (ICIMODs vision statement) in order to improve livelihoods and climate resilience of vulnerable mountain communities. The main and common focus of SDC’s core and core programme support is to strengthen ICIMOD as a knowledge, innovation and scaling hub that provides robust evidence and advice on policy responses, and as an enabler of regional cooperation and collaboration on the technical and policy level.
Target groups ICIMOD’s work targets, and therefore is relevant for mountain communities, development workers, environment and natural resource managers, researchers and students, the private sector as well as for local, national and regional policy makers and planners.
Medium-term outcomes - Policy responses and practice solutions are widely adopted and supported by largescale investments. - The HKH mountain agenda is recognised in global policy forums, attracting more investment for the region. - Regional cooperation and collaboration leads to critical policy decisions including HKH Council and regional protocols. - ICIMOD is an agile, efficient, resp
