About the meeting The HUC Thematic Working Group on DRR and Resilience is supporting a youth–focused special session as part of the 13th International Conference of the International Society for the Integrated Disaster Risk Management on 29 September 2023. Heritage plays a crucial role in encouraging societal cohesion and sustainable development. We are suffering from the progressive loss […]

About the meeting This meeting of the HUC India Country Chapter will put forth nominations for the HUC Steering Committee Member representing India, to be endorsed by the Steering Committee and General Assembly.   Objectives The proposed action points for these meetings are: Reconvene under the leadership of Prof Dr Kamal Kishore Pant, Director of […]

Background HUC is a thriving network of over 90 universities in the eight Hindu Kush Himalaya countries and across the world. The Consortium’s driving force lies in its Thematic Working Groups and cross-cutting groups: member-led clusters operating on a resource-sharing basis. One of the key decisions of the HUC Steering Committee Meeting in Lanzhou in April 2023 […]

About the workshop Indigenous, traditional, and local knowledge (ITLK) systems are diverse forms of knowledge prevalent across the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. ITLK systems are often integrated into livelihood strategies and coping strategies for climate change impacts. With the support of the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN), Institute for Global Environmental Strategies […]

About the workshop This workshop introduces the use of participatory visual methods as a tool for advocacy, with an emphasis on bottom-up policy communications. Broadly, visual methods involve the use of photography, video, artwork, and other media in research and engagement activities. The emphasis of this session will be on the use of video. Using […]

About Representatives from Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Australia, and the UK from the Himalayan University Consortium (HUC)’s Thematic Working Group (TWG) on Mountain Agriculture are coming together to attend this first in-person meeting post-Covid 19. HUC’s TWG on Mountain Agriculture has the distinction of being the very first as well as the longest-lasting […]

About the event Communities across the world have depended on millets, a group of cereal grains, as a source of nutrition and sustenance for generations. Despite the potential to address food and nutritional security, millet growth and consumption have been declining. Of late, the importance of millet has been recognised as critical in addressing food […]