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HIshyAWARE NEWS AND NOTES OF INTEREST
HIshyAWARE research teamstested and reviewed theefficacy of participatoryresearch tools andmethodologies such as thevulnerability matrix tool andcritical moment methodologyin Chitwan Nepal from 4shy10
July 2015 Based on the feedback received the researchers will adaptand apply these tools and methodologies selectively in the HIshyAWAREstudy basins to study socioshyeconomic governance and gender driversof climate vulnerability and critical moments and adaptation turningpoints READ MORE
The HIshyAWARE Consortium Research Management Team met inKathmandu Nepal from 1shy3 July 2015 to take stock of the progressmade on the research front to assess the health of the researchpartnership and to revisit the theory of change and impact pathwaysof the initiative focusing on research into use (RiU) They alsodiscussed how communication and outreach strategy and policyshyengagement strategy can best support RiU READ MORE
Navarun Varma TERIshyHIshyAWARE researcher who attended the 3shy5August 2015 workshop on Research Component 2 (RC2) in Dhakawrites about the need to integrate the wellbeing approach to socialshyecological systems thinking in HIshyAWARE research design particularlyRC2 READ MORE
Tanzina Dilshad BCASshyHIshyAWARE researcher makes a persuasivecase for mainstreaming gender equity in climate change adaptationpolicies and programmes since climate change impacts men andwomen differentially READ MORE
MESSAGE FROM DAVID
MOLDENDirector General ICIMOD andChair of the HIshyAWARE SteeringCommittee
ICIMODtogether withits partnerorganisationsBCAS TERIPARC andAlterra isimplementing the HimalayanAdaptation Water and Resilience(HIshyAWARE) Research on Glacierand Snowpack Dependent RiverBasins for Improving Livelihoods This initiative is supported underthe Collaborative AdaptationResearch Initiative in Africa andAsia (CARIAA) programme fundedby IDRCshyCanada and DFIDshyUK HIshyAWARE is a fiveshyyear researchinitiative aiming at developingclimate change adaptationapproaches and enhancing theresilience of the poorest and mostvulnerable women men and childrenliving in the Indus Ganga andBrahmaputra river basins of theHindu Kush Himalayan (HKH)region The HIshyAWARE researchconsortium is conducting integrativeresearch across scales on thebiophysical socioeconomic gender
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1092015 HIshyAWARE Bishymonthly eshybulletin (up to August 2015)
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The special session on lsquoWater andMountainsrsquo convened by ICIMOD and HIshyAWARE at the 15th World WaterCongress in Edinburgh Scotland lastMay discussed the water challenges inmountain environments theirimportance for downstream riverbasins and the need to mainstream
these issues in global water debates and agendas READ MORE
Hester Biemans CoshyPrincipal InvestigatorshyAlterra presented HIshyAWARE to a mixed audience of EU policymakers academicsresearchers and representatives from civil society groups andembassies and missions to the EU at a briefing seminar entitledlsquoWater Resources in the Himalayas Turning the Tide towardCooperationrsquo at the European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS) inBrussels on 28 May 2015 READ MORE
The HIshyAWARE conference held in Faisalabad Pakistan on 12 May2015 stressed on the need to study impacts of climate change onfragile mountain ecosystems of the HindushyKush Himalayan regionREAD MORE
Christian Siderius Alterra represented HIshyAWARE at a specialworkshop on lsquoClimate Extremes Adaption and Policy ndash From Physics toSolutionsrsquo in Riederalp Switzerland from 24shy28 March 2015 Hecontributed in particular to session 2 on lsquoHeavy Precipitation Droughtand Hydrological Responsesrsquo from HIshyAWARE perspectives READMORE
Letters of Agreement (LoAs) have been signed between HIshyAWARE andfour strategic partners ndash Practical ActionshyNepal The Mountain Institute(TMI)shyIndia Megh Pyne Abhiyan (MPA) and The Centre for EcologyDevelopment and Research (CEDAR) ndash for collaboration in areas suchas pilot projects field research coshyproduction of knowledge productsand policyshypractice engagement
and governance drivers andconditions leading to vulnerabilityin order to understand climatechange impacts and to identifycritical moments and adaptationturning points It is focusing on theIndus Upper Ganga Gandaki andTeesta river basins where theimpacts of climate change on thelivelihoods of the poor are uncertainbut likely to be severe Adaptationpolicies and practices based onrobust evidence are urgentlyrequired in these basins to enhancethe resilience and adaptive capacityof the poorest and most vulnerablepopulations and to improve theirlivelihoods in a changing climateThe research started in April 2014presently it is in its second year ofimplementation and will end inSeptember 2018
As chairperson of the HIshyAWAREsteering committee it is mypleasure to convey to you that thefirst issue of the HIshyAWARE eshybulletin is out This bishymonthly eshybulletin operational from August2015 onwards will provide you withdetails of the HIshyAWARE researchand pilot activities done by the poolof researchers spread across fivecounties ndash Pakistan India NepalBangladesh and the Netherlandsand two continents Europe andAsia READ MORE
NOTES FROM THE FIELD
IndusA scoping trip undertaken by ICIMOD and PakistanAgricultural Research Council (PARC) researchers toChaj Doab in the Sargodha and Mandi Bahauddindistricts of Punjab province Pakistan from 6shy16January 2015 found that financially sound farmers arealready adapting to climate change whereas poorfarmers are lagging behind thus raising the questionldquoHow can the poor farmers be included in theadaptation processrdquo Abid Hussain Food SecurityEconomist at ICIMOD blogs about this HERE
Gandaki BasinHIshyAWARE ispartnering with MeghPyne Abhiyan topromote ecologicalshysanitation (ecoshysan)toilets in parts offloodshyprone BiharIndia as a structural
adaptation option providing climate resilience andmaintaining sanitation and hygiene in the event offloods Avash Pandey ICIMOD researcher blogsabout this ongoing partnership HERE
1092015 HIshyAWARE Bishymonthly eshybulletin (up to August 2015)
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Upper GangaSudeshna MayaSen TERIshyHIshyAWAREresearcher presents aclassic case of waterbeing available yetinaccessible in the
mountain villages of Devprayag in Uttrakhand IndiaREAD MORE Sudeshna Maya Sen writes about what thechanging climate means for tourism in the Uttrakhandstate of India drawing on her experiences andperceptions READ MORE
Harriet LarringtonshySpencer ICIMODshyHIshyAWAREresearcher observes that in the Upper Ganga riverbasin climate change tends to impact peoplebelonging to different social strata including menand women differentially READ MORE
Six students affiliated with The Energy and ResourcesInstitute (TERI)shyHIshyAWARE ndash Divya SharmaSudeshna Maya Sen Yamini Yogya GaneshGotri Shreya Trivedi and Vishaka Gulati ndashrecount in their own words their internshipexperiences as part of the HIshyAWARE researchinitiative READ MORE
On his scoping trip to Bihar India AvashPandey learns of the contamination of undergroundwater with iron and arsenic The increasing use oftubeshywells at the household level has significantlyincreased the health risks to villages in Bihar READMORE
Sangita Dandekhya ICIMOD researcher blogsabout labour migration of male youths and itscontribution to enhanced resilience in the hilly areasof Nuwakot District of Nepal READ MORE
Teesta BasinHarriet LarringtonshySpencer ICIMOD researcherblogs about how two villages in Sikkim India ndash ShakushyKhani and Uttarey ndash are adapting to climate change intheir own ways READ MORE
Ujol Sherchan ICIMOD KMC Focal Point for HIshyAWARE interviews Pema Thinley a yak farmer fromthe Gurudongmar area in Sikkim about some of themajor challenges facing animal husbandry and itsfuture in North Sikkim READ MORE
About 350shy400 families fleeing floods and riverbankerosion have moved to the embankment area of UttarKhoribari along the Teesta river in Rangpur District ofBangladesh and are growing pumpkins to make endsmeet while at the same time struggling to findbuyersmarkets for their produce Md Abu Syed PhDFellow at BCAS draws the attention of HIshyAWARE totheir plight READ MORE READ MORE
PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
Golam Rasul et al from ICIMOD published a HIshyAWARE paper ldquoThe nexus approach to watershyfoodshyenergysecurity option for adaptationrdquo for Climate Policy journal The paper highlights the interlinkages betweenwater energy and agriculturefood sectors including implications for sustainable development and climate changeadaptation
Tiku Gauchan HIshyAWARE consultant explains the nexus approach to foodshywatershyenergy security including whythis approach should be taken into account when designing adaptation measures and policies READ MORE
Golam Rasul Theme Leadershy Livelihoods at ICIMOD published a HIshyAWARE paper lsquoWater for Growth andDevelopment in the Ganges Brahmaputra and Meghna Basins An Economic Perspectiversquo in theInternational Journal of Water Management The paper examines the opportunities for and potential socioshyeconomic benefits of water resource management in the Ganges Brahmaputra and Meghna basins in the face ofchanging climate
A HIshyAWARE paper lsquoCropshyspecific seasonal estimates of irrigation water demand in South Asiarsquo byHester Biemans et al has been published as a discussion paper on Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
1092015 HIshyAWARE Bishymonthly eshybulletin (up to August 2015)
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EVENTS OF NOTE
HIshyAWARE in partnership with Megh Pyne Abhiyan and the Centre forEnvironmental Sciences of the Central University of South Bihar is organising aroundtable conference on lsquoThe Agony of Rivers Floods in Biharrsquo in Patna Indiaon 3 September 2015 to discuss flood issues facing Bihar including a road map forfuture research and action
DECCMA and HIshyAWARE will meet at a joint stakeholder workshop in Dhaka on 7 September 2015 to familiariseeach other on their respective research projects and countryshy engagement activities in Bangladesh for possiblecrossshyconsortia collaboration
HIshyAWARE researchers associated with Research Component 3 (lsquoMonitoring and Assessment of AdaptationPracticesrsquo) are to have a faceshytoshyface meeting in Rangpur District Bangladesh from 5shy9 October 2015
ABOUT HIshyAWARE
The Himalayan Adaptation Water and Resilience (HIshyAWARE) Research Consortium conducts research and pilotinterventions capacity building and policy engagement on climate resilience and adaptation in the mountainshills and plains of the Indus Upper Ganga Gandaki and Teesta river basins The Consortium comprises theInternational Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) the Bangladesh Centre forAdvanced Studies (BCAS) Pakistan Agricultural Research Centre (PARC) The Energy and ResourcesInstitute (TERI)shyIndia and AlterrashyWageningen University and Research Centre (AlterrashyWUR)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to HIshyAWARE Knowledge Management and Communication (KMC) Focal Points ndash particularly PrasoonSingh TERIshyIndia Zakia Nazin BCASshyBangladesh Bilal Iqbal PARCshyPakistan and Hester Biemans AlterrashyNetherlands ndash for helping put this edition of the HIshyAWARE Bulletin together Thanks also to Anja RasmussenKMC Lead for HIshyAWARE for her advice and guidance shy Ed
HIshyAWARE is supported by the UKrsquos Department for International Development (DFID) and Canadarsquos InternationalDevelopment Research Centre (IDRC) through the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia(CARIAA)
Copyright copy 2015 International Centre For Integrated Mountain Development All rights reserved
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1092015 HIshyAWARE Bishymonthly eshybulletin (up to August 2015)
httpus10campaignshyarchive1comu=3a534d9cefa275a13e577ad8fampid=5e79b41e36ampe 24
The special session on lsquoWater andMountainsrsquo convened by ICIMOD and HIshyAWARE at the 15th World WaterCongress in Edinburgh Scotland lastMay discussed the water challenges inmountain environments theirimportance for downstream riverbasins and the need to mainstream
these issues in global water debates and agendas READ MORE
Hester Biemans CoshyPrincipal InvestigatorshyAlterra presented HIshyAWARE to a mixed audience of EU policymakers academicsresearchers and representatives from civil society groups andembassies and missions to the EU at a briefing seminar entitledlsquoWater Resources in the Himalayas Turning the Tide towardCooperationrsquo at the European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS) inBrussels on 28 May 2015 READ MORE
The HIshyAWARE conference held in Faisalabad Pakistan on 12 May2015 stressed on the need to study impacts of climate change onfragile mountain ecosystems of the HindushyKush Himalayan regionREAD MORE
Christian Siderius Alterra represented HIshyAWARE at a specialworkshop on lsquoClimate Extremes Adaption and Policy ndash From Physics toSolutionsrsquo in Riederalp Switzerland from 24shy28 March 2015 Hecontributed in particular to session 2 on lsquoHeavy Precipitation Droughtand Hydrological Responsesrsquo from HIshyAWARE perspectives READMORE
Letters of Agreement (LoAs) have been signed between HIshyAWARE andfour strategic partners ndash Practical ActionshyNepal The Mountain Institute(TMI)shyIndia Megh Pyne Abhiyan (MPA) and The Centre for EcologyDevelopment and Research (CEDAR) ndash for collaboration in areas suchas pilot projects field research coshyproduction of knowledge productsand policyshypractice engagement
and governance drivers andconditions leading to vulnerabilityin order to understand climatechange impacts and to identifycritical moments and adaptationturning points It is focusing on theIndus Upper Ganga Gandaki andTeesta river basins where theimpacts of climate change on thelivelihoods of the poor are uncertainbut likely to be severe Adaptationpolicies and practices based onrobust evidence are urgentlyrequired in these basins to enhancethe resilience and adaptive capacityof the poorest and most vulnerablepopulations and to improve theirlivelihoods in a changing climateThe research started in April 2014presently it is in its second year ofimplementation and will end inSeptember 2018
As chairperson of the HIshyAWAREsteering committee it is mypleasure to convey to you that thefirst issue of the HIshyAWARE eshybulletin is out This bishymonthly eshybulletin operational from August2015 onwards will provide you withdetails of the HIshyAWARE researchand pilot activities done by the poolof researchers spread across fivecounties ndash Pakistan India NepalBangladesh and the Netherlandsand two continents Europe andAsia READ MORE
NOTES FROM THE FIELD
IndusA scoping trip undertaken by ICIMOD and PakistanAgricultural Research Council (PARC) researchers toChaj Doab in the Sargodha and Mandi Bahauddindistricts of Punjab province Pakistan from 6shy16January 2015 found that financially sound farmers arealready adapting to climate change whereas poorfarmers are lagging behind thus raising the questionldquoHow can the poor farmers be included in theadaptation processrdquo Abid Hussain Food SecurityEconomist at ICIMOD blogs about this HERE
Gandaki BasinHIshyAWARE ispartnering with MeghPyne Abhiyan topromote ecologicalshysanitation (ecoshysan)toilets in parts offloodshyprone BiharIndia as a structural
adaptation option providing climate resilience andmaintaining sanitation and hygiene in the event offloods Avash Pandey ICIMOD researcher blogsabout this ongoing partnership HERE
1092015 HIshyAWARE Bishymonthly eshybulletin (up to August 2015)
httpus10campaignshyarchive1comu=3a534d9cefa275a13e577ad8fampid=5e79b41e36ampe 34
Upper GangaSudeshna MayaSen TERIshyHIshyAWAREresearcher presents aclassic case of waterbeing available yetinaccessible in the
mountain villages of Devprayag in Uttrakhand IndiaREAD MORE Sudeshna Maya Sen writes about what thechanging climate means for tourism in the Uttrakhandstate of India drawing on her experiences andperceptions READ MORE
Harriet LarringtonshySpencer ICIMODshyHIshyAWAREresearcher observes that in the Upper Ganga riverbasin climate change tends to impact peoplebelonging to different social strata including menand women differentially READ MORE
Six students affiliated with The Energy and ResourcesInstitute (TERI)shyHIshyAWARE ndash Divya SharmaSudeshna Maya Sen Yamini Yogya GaneshGotri Shreya Trivedi and Vishaka Gulati ndashrecount in their own words their internshipexperiences as part of the HIshyAWARE researchinitiative READ MORE
On his scoping trip to Bihar India AvashPandey learns of the contamination of undergroundwater with iron and arsenic The increasing use oftubeshywells at the household level has significantlyincreased the health risks to villages in Bihar READMORE
Sangita Dandekhya ICIMOD researcher blogsabout labour migration of male youths and itscontribution to enhanced resilience in the hilly areasof Nuwakot District of Nepal READ MORE
Teesta BasinHarriet LarringtonshySpencer ICIMOD researcherblogs about how two villages in Sikkim India ndash ShakushyKhani and Uttarey ndash are adapting to climate change intheir own ways READ MORE
Ujol Sherchan ICIMOD KMC Focal Point for HIshyAWARE interviews Pema Thinley a yak farmer fromthe Gurudongmar area in Sikkim about some of themajor challenges facing animal husbandry and itsfuture in North Sikkim READ MORE
About 350shy400 families fleeing floods and riverbankerosion have moved to the embankment area of UttarKhoribari along the Teesta river in Rangpur District ofBangladesh and are growing pumpkins to make endsmeet while at the same time struggling to findbuyersmarkets for their produce Md Abu Syed PhDFellow at BCAS draws the attention of HIshyAWARE totheir plight READ MORE READ MORE
PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
Golam Rasul et al from ICIMOD published a HIshyAWARE paper ldquoThe nexus approach to watershyfoodshyenergysecurity option for adaptationrdquo for Climate Policy journal The paper highlights the interlinkages betweenwater energy and agriculturefood sectors including implications for sustainable development and climate changeadaptation
Tiku Gauchan HIshyAWARE consultant explains the nexus approach to foodshywatershyenergy security including whythis approach should be taken into account when designing adaptation measures and policies READ MORE
Golam Rasul Theme Leadershy Livelihoods at ICIMOD published a HIshyAWARE paper lsquoWater for Growth andDevelopment in the Ganges Brahmaputra and Meghna Basins An Economic Perspectiversquo in theInternational Journal of Water Management The paper examines the opportunities for and potential socioshyeconomic benefits of water resource management in the Ganges Brahmaputra and Meghna basins in the face ofchanging climate
A HIshyAWARE paper lsquoCropshyspecific seasonal estimates of irrigation water demand in South Asiarsquo byHester Biemans et al has been published as a discussion paper on Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
1092015 HIshyAWARE Bishymonthly eshybulletin (up to August 2015)
httpus10campaignshyarchive1comu=3a534d9cefa275a13e577ad8fampid=5e79b41e36ampe 44
EVENTS OF NOTE
HIshyAWARE in partnership with Megh Pyne Abhiyan and the Centre forEnvironmental Sciences of the Central University of South Bihar is organising aroundtable conference on lsquoThe Agony of Rivers Floods in Biharrsquo in Patna Indiaon 3 September 2015 to discuss flood issues facing Bihar including a road map forfuture research and action
DECCMA and HIshyAWARE will meet at a joint stakeholder workshop in Dhaka on 7 September 2015 to familiariseeach other on their respective research projects and countryshy engagement activities in Bangladesh for possiblecrossshyconsortia collaboration
HIshyAWARE researchers associated with Research Component 3 (lsquoMonitoring and Assessment of AdaptationPracticesrsquo) are to have a faceshytoshyface meeting in Rangpur District Bangladesh from 5shy9 October 2015
ABOUT HIshyAWARE
The Himalayan Adaptation Water and Resilience (HIshyAWARE) Research Consortium conducts research and pilotinterventions capacity building and policy engagement on climate resilience and adaptation in the mountainshills and plains of the Indus Upper Ganga Gandaki and Teesta river basins The Consortium comprises theInternational Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) the Bangladesh Centre forAdvanced Studies (BCAS) Pakistan Agricultural Research Centre (PARC) The Energy and ResourcesInstitute (TERI)shyIndia and AlterrashyWageningen University and Research Centre (AlterrashyWUR)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to HIshyAWARE Knowledge Management and Communication (KMC) Focal Points ndash particularly PrasoonSingh TERIshyIndia Zakia Nazin BCASshyBangladesh Bilal Iqbal PARCshyPakistan and Hester Biemans AlterrashyNetherlands ndash for helping put this edition of the HIshyAWARE Bulletin together Thanks also to Anja RasmussenKMC Lead for HIshyAWARE for her advice and guidance shy Ed
HIshyAWARE is supported by the UKrsquos Department for International Development (DFID) and Canadarsquos InternationalDevelopment Research Centre (IDRC) through the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia(CARIAA)
Copyright copy 2015 International Centre For Integrated Mountain Development All rights reserved
Want to change how you receive these emailsYou can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list
1092015 HIshyAWARE Bishymonthly eshybulletin (up to August 2015)
httpus10campaignshyarchive1comu=3a534d9cefa275a13e577ad8fampid=5e79b41e36ampe 34
Upper GangaSudeshna MayaSen TERIshyHIshyAWAREresearcher presents aclassic case of waterbeing available yetinaccessible in the
mountain villages of Devprayag in Uttrakhand IndiaREAD MORE Sudeshna Maya Sen writes about what thechanging climate means for tourism in the Uttrakhandstate of India drawing on her experiences andperceptions READ MORE
Harriet LarringtonshySpencer ICIMODshyHIshyAWAREresearcher observes that in the Upper Ganga riverbasin climate change tends to impact peoplebelonging to different social strata including menand women differentially READ MORE
Six students affiliated with The Energy and ResourcesInstitute (TERI)shyHIshyAWARE ndash Divya SharmaSudeshna Maya Sen Yamini Yogya GaneshGotri Shreya Trivedi and Vishaka Gulati ndashrecount in their own words their internshipexperiences as part of the HIshyAWARE researchinitiative READ MORE
On his scoping trip to Bihar India AvashPandey learns of the contamination of undergroundwater with iron and arsenic The increasing use oftubeshywells at the household level has significantlyincreased the health risks to villages in Bihar READMORE
Sangita Dandekhya ICIMOD researcher blogsabout labour migration of male youths and itscontribution to enhanced resilience in the hilly areasof Nuwakot District of Nepal READ MORE
Teesta BasinHarriet LarringtonshySpencer ICIMOD researcherblogs about how two villages in Sikkim India ndash ShakushyKhani and Uttarey ndash are adapting to climate change intheir own ways READ MORE
Ujol Sherchan ICIMOD KMC Focal Point for HIshyAWARE interviews Pema Thinley a yak farmer fromthe Gurudongmar area in Sikkim about some of themajor challenges facing animal husbandry and itsfuture in North Sikkim READ MORE
About 350shy400 families fleeing floods and riverbankerosion have moved to the embankment area of UttarKhoribari along the Teesta river in Rangpur District ofBangladesh and are growing pumpkins to make endsmeet while at the same time struggling to findbuyersmarkets for their produce Md Abu Syed PhDFellow at BCAS draws the attention of HIshyAWARE totheir plight READ MORE READ MORE
PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
Golam Rasul et al from ICIMOD published a HIshyAWARE paper ldquoThe nexus approach to watershyfoodshyenergysecurity option for adaptationrdquo for Climate Policy journal The paper highlights the interlinkages betweenwater energy and agriculturefood sectors including implications for sustainable development and climate changeadaptation
Tiku Gauchan HIshyAWARE consultant explains the nexus approach to foodshywatershyenergy security including whythis approach should be taken into account when designing adaptation measures and policies READ MORE
Golam Rasul Theme Leadershy Livelihoods at ICIMOD published a HIshyAWARE paper lsquoWater for Growth andDevelopment in the Ganges Brahmaputra and Meghna Basins An Economic Perspectiversquo in theInternational Journal of Water Management The paper examines the opportunities for and potential socioshyeconomic benefits of water resource management in the Ganges Brahmaputra and Meghna basins in the face ofchanging climate
A HIshyAWARE paper lsquoCropshyspecific seasonal estimates of irrigation water demand in South Asiarsquo byHester Biemans et al has been published as a discussion paper on Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
1092015 HIshyAWARE Bishymonthly eshybulletin (up to August 2015)
httpus10campaignshyarchive1comu=3a534d9cefa275a13e577ad8fampid=5e79b41e36ampe 44
EVENTS OF NOTE
HIshyAWARE in partnership with Megh Pyne Abhiyan and the Centre forEnvironmental Sciences of the Central University of South Bihar is organising aroundtable conference on lsquoThe Agony of Rivers Floods in Biharrsquo in Patna Indiaon 3 September 2015 to discuss flood issues facing Bihar including a road map forfuture research and action
DECCMA and HIshyAWARE will meet at a joint stakeholder workshop in Dhaka on 7 September 2015 to familiariseeach other on their respective research projects and countryshy engagement activities in Bangladesh for possiblecrossshyconsortia collaboration
HIshyAWARE researchers associated with Research Component 3 (lsquoMonitoring and Assessment of AdaptationPracticesrsquo) are to have a faceshytoshyface meeting in Rangpur District Bangladesh from 5shy9 October 2015
ABOUT HIshyAWARE
The Himalayan Adaptation Water and Resilience (HIshyAWARE) Research Consortium conducts research and pilotinterventions capacity building and policy engagement on climate resilience and adaptation in the mountainshills and plains of the Indus Upper Ganga Gandaki and Teesta river basins The Consortium comprises theInternational Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) the Bangladesh Centre forAdvanced Studies (BCAS) Pakistan Agricultural Research Centre (PARC) The Energy and ResourcesInstitute (TERI)shyIndia and AlterrashyWageningen University and Research Centre (AlterrashyWUR)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to HIshyAWARE Knowledge Management and Communication (KMC) Focal Points ndash particularly PrasoonSingh TERIshyIndia Zakia Nazin BCASshyBangladesh Bilal Iqbal PARCshyPakistan and Hester Biemans AlterrashyNetherlands ndash for helping put this edition of the HIshyAWARE Bulletin together Thanks also to Anja RasmussenKMC Lead for HIshyAWARE for her advice and guidance shy Ed
HIshyAWARE is supported by the UKrsquos Department for International Development (DFID) and Canadarsquos InternationalDevelopment Research Centre (IDRC) through the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia(CARIAA)
Copyright copy 2015 International Centre For Integrated Mountain Development All rights reserved
Want to change how you receive these emailsYou can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list
1092015 HIshyAWARE Bishymonthly eshybulletin (up to August 2015)
httpus10campaignshyarchive1comu=3a534d9cefa275a13e577ad8fampid=5e79b41e36ampe 44
EVENTS OF NOTE
HIshyAWARE in partnership with Megh Pyne Abhiyan and the Centre forEnvironmental Sciences of the Central University of South Bihar is organising aroundtable conference on lsquoThe Agony of Rivers Floods in Biharrsquo in Patna Indiaon 3 September 2015 to discuss flood issues facing Bihar including a road map forfuture research and action
DECCMA and HIshyAWARE will meet at a joint stakeholder workshop in Dhaka on 7 September 2015 to familiariseeach other on their respective research projects and countryshy engagement activities in Bangladesh for possiblecrossshyconsortia collaboration
HIshyAWARE researchers associated with Research Component 3 (lsquoMonitoring and Assessment of AdaptationPracticesrsquo) are to have a faceshytoshyface meeting in Rangpur District Bangladesh from 5shy9 October 2015
ABOUT HIshyAWARE
The Himalayan Adaptation Water and Resilience (HIshyAWARE) Research Consortium conducts research and pilotinterventions capacity building and policy engagement on climate resilience and adaptation in the mountainshills and plains of the Indus Upper Ganga Gandaki and Teesta river basins The Consortium comprises theInternational Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) the Bangladesh Centre forAdvanced Studies (BCAS) Pakistan Agricultural Research Centre (PARC) The Energy and ResourcesInstitute (TERI)shyIndia and AlterrashyWageningen University and Research Centre (AlterrashyWUR)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to HIshyAWARE Knowledge Management and Communication (KMC) Focal Points ndash particularly PrasoonSingh TERIshyIndia Zakia Nazin BCASshyBangladesh Bilal Iqbal PARCshyPakistan and Hester Biemans AlterrashyNetherlands ndash for helping put this edition of the HIshyAWARE Bulletin together Thanks also to Anja RasmussenKMC Lead for HIshyAWARE for her advice and guidance shy Ed
HIshyAWARE is supported by the UKrsquos Department for International Development (DFID) and Canadarsquos InternationalDevelopment Research Centre (IDRC) through the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia(CARIAA)
Copyright copy 2015 International Centre For Integrated Mountain Development All rights reserved
Want to change how you receive these emailsYou can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list