At IHRR we empower people, foster resilience, and improve lives (both now and in the future), of those living with hazard and risk. We do this by undertaking world-leading research in direct collaboration with communities, NGOs and governments. By outcomes, we mean applying our work to create a significant positive change for people.
In turn, these outcomes cascade into other settings and inform future research.
The project focused on how to include women in decision-making processes, listening to their assessments of priority challenges. The work included education and training activities but also learning through delivering the projects themselves (including managing small budgets).
A collaborative three-year PhD research project exploring parametric index-based insurance as a possible risk transfer mechanism in Nepal for very poor farmers in flood prone areas of the Lower Karnali River basin in Nepal, built on existing local partnerships
Landslides are a perennial hazard in Nepal that pose a particular challenge to post-earthquake disaster response. The cohort comprised 4 PhD research projects, all of which sought to learn from the 2015 earthquakes and build upon ongoing and existing long-term research and collaborations in Nepal.
A UK-India-Nepal collaboration is developing a disaster preparedness module for transport engineering in the Himalayas. Piloted at IIT Mandi, the course will also be offered online via CDRI, aiming to build resilience in hilly regions through education and industry-academia partnership.
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