Position Overview:

The Regional Information Service (RIS) is a new intervention in ICIMOD’s Building Institutions for Regional Cooperation and Collaboration Action Area, part of the organisation’s work on Enabling Regional and Global Mechanisms for Sustainable Action. The overall objective of the RIS is to harness the power of data and rapid evolving digital technologies to make a difference to decision making in a way that sustains and protects lives and livelihoods across the rapidly changing Hindu Kush Himalaya region.

The RIS enhances access to data, information and insights on climate and environmental trends and events. It focuses on developing high-priority regional datasets, advanced information systems, applications and tools, as well as innovative digital platforms to inform research, policy, planning, and investment decisions. RIS will also work to integrate the best of digital innovation moving forward – such as AI, machine learning, as well as cloud computing, as well as to deploy a networked approach to deliver rapid, high-quality information services to its users within and outside ICIMOD.

Background

The Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region stretches 3,500 km across Asia, spanning eight countries – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan. Encompassing high-altitude mountain ranges, mid-hills, and plains, the zone is vital for the food, water, and energy security of over two billion people and is a habitat for countless irreplaceable species. It is also acutely fragile – and frontline to the impacts of the triple planetary crisis of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss.

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), based in Kathmandu, Nepal, is an international organisation established in 1983 that works to make this critical region greener, more inclusive, and climate resilient. For more information, please explore our .

Method of application

Applicants must apply online before March 02, 2025 (11:59 PM Nepal Standard Time) through .

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified. 

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