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The Annual Report 2015 gives a brief overview of ICIMOD’s activities over the past year
. It presents progress and impacts across the broad areas of policy engagement, mountain innovations and community practices, capacity building, knowledge generation and use, facilitating regional cooperation, and regional and global outreach, as well as a special section on ICIMOD’s 2015 Gorkha Earthquake Response. The Centre’s audited financial report is also included in the report to ensure that ICIMOD maintains fiscal accountability and transparency
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The vision of the Himalayan University Consortium (HUC) is to contribute to enhanced collaboration among the universities of the region and to promote centres of excellence on key topics relevant to the region
. The aim is to build a dynamic mountain knowledge partnership among universities, ICIMOD, and regional member country partners to promote research and learning. ICIMOD and universities will work together to strengthen capacity by developing joint research and knowledge management programmes on contemporary topics and, in so doing, help ease some of the shortcomings that regional institutions may have in terms of capacity and funding. HUC partners will be involved in developing and sharing new curricula. Key outcomes will include new curricula adopted and more students relevantly trained to meet the new mountain challenges of the future
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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 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 main characteristics of the site are summarized overleaf
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