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The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is a regional intergovernmental learning and knowledge sharing centre serving eight regional member countries in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH)—Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan. ICIMOD aims to serve the region through information and knowledge generation and sharing to find innovative solutions to critical mountain problems. It facilitates knowledge exchange in its thematic areas of Livelihoods, Ecosystem Services, Water and Air, and Geospatial Solutions to address issues of common concern in Regional Members Countries as well as from transboundary perspectives.
The HKH region provides ecosystem services (e.g., water, food, energy) that directly sustain the livelihoods of 240 million people in the mountain and hills of the HKH. Nearly 1.9 billion people living in the 10 river basins also benefit directly and indirectly from its resources. The mountains in the HKH region act as an ecological buffer, influencing the temperature, monsoon, and rainfall pattern of South Asia, and create favourable conditions for agriculture. Similarly, HKH is home to immense cultural and ethnic diversity and is home to four of the 34 global biodiversity hotspots. But in recent years, global processes such as globalization and climate change together with rapid population growth, urbanisation, migration, feminisation of rural labour, and national/local economic development have begun to pose a challenge to the traditional livelihoods of mountain people and mountain socio-ecological systems as a whole. Many mountain communities are excluded from enjoying the benefits of recent economic developments in the region/nations, resulting in a higher proportion of poverty in mountain areas. ICIMOD seeks to understand these challenges and find solutions for enhancing the livelihoods of mountain people. It seeks to enhance the adaptive capacities of mountain people and ecosystems to the climate, environment, and socioeconomic changes through knowledge generation and sharing.
Doctoral Fellowship Programme
We seek high calibre PhD students to work with us in better understanding the challenges faced by mountain societies and ecosystems in the region and their solutions. ICIMOD is not a degree granting institute; we seek students who are already enrolled in PhD programmes at accredited institutions. ICIMOD will host their research activities and ICIMOD scientists will co-supervise the PhD fellows.
Livelihoods
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Requirements
ICIMOD aims to select two-thirds of the fellows from ICIMOD member countries, and for half the fellows to be women. Fellowships will be linked to the Himalayan University Consortium (HUC).
The candidate should meet the following requirements:
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