Mitigation of climate change in the western Himalayas

Pragya is an Indian NGO based in Delhi. The organization specializes in working in high altitude areas of the Indian Himalayas (above 8,000ft), and is the only NGO to have a presence in every Indian Himalayan state. Pragya is currently implementing a project called Water Access and Wasteland Development in the Western Himalayas, which combines natural resource management strategies and infusion of appropriate technology, along with social mobilization, to mitigate the growing problems of water and ecosystem stress in this region.