The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) was established in December 1983 as a regional knowledge and learning centre for the sustainable development in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region. ICIMOD was founded by and serves eight Regional Member countries, including: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan. ICIMOD’s core programmes are also supported by European donors, including Austria, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and Switzerland, and about thirty co-financing project donors. The Centre is located in Kathmandu, Nepal, and works with both regional and global partners to help reduce mountain poverty and vulnerability and increase environmental sustainability.

Over the last twenty years ICIMOD has become not only a model for technical cooperation and dialogue but also a springboard for data sharing and networking that other difficult mountain regions of the world (such as Central Asia, Caucasus, and Andes) are seeking to emulate. ICIMOD has also played a major role in shaping the global mountain agenda through drafting Chapter 13 of Agenda 21 for the Rio Earth Summit, and providing critical input into the World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD) at Johannesburg, South Africa and the Bishkek Global Mountains Summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan during the International Year of Mountains 2002. ICIMOD hosts the global Mountain Forum and runs the Asia Pacific Mountain Network.

One of the intervention areas of ICIMOD is disaster risk management of mountain areas. With number of international partners and national partners, ICIMOD has accumulated extensive experiences in disaster risk management namely: flash floods, landslides hazard, earthquake vulnerability reduction, and risk engineering. In particular, ICIMOD through MENRIS programme has focussed in building capacities of national institutions by conducting series of regional and national training courses in disaster risk management for mountain areas using geospatial tools and techniques.

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
GPO Box 3226, Kathmandu, Nepal
Tel: 00977 1 5525313
Fax: 00977 1 5524509
http://www.icimod-gis.net
http://www.icimod.org