The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)

About the organization

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is a regional intergovernmental learning and knowledge sharing center serving the eight regional member countries of the Hindu Kush Himalaya, which are: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan. The center is based in Kathmandu, Nepal. ICIMOD aims to assist mountain people to understand the different changes such as globalization and climate change and help adapt to them, in order to make new opportunities to preserve the ecosystems and the livelihood of mountain people. The center supports regional transboundary programs through partnerships with regional partner institutions to facilitate the exchange of experience, as it's their mission to serve the region through information and knowledge generation and sharing to find innovative solutions to critical mountain problems.