To improve the gender balance in the field, SERVIR-HKH promotes capacity-building activities in GIT for women. As part of this, the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), in partnership with the Robotics Association of Nepal (RAN), will conduct a four-day training on “Empowering Women in Geospatial Information Technology (GIT)” under its SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya (SERVIR–HKH) initiative.

In collaboration with NASA Applied Science Team (AST) and national partners, SERVIR-HKH is developing a drought monitoring and early warning system to support national- and local-level planning and agro advisory services. It has developed a prototype web based application that can visualize different drought indices and their spatial distribution along with a crop calendar.

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), in partnership with the Institute of Remote Sensing, Jahangirnagar University (IRS-JU), will conduct a five-day Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform, under its SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya (SERVIR–HKH) initiative. ICIMOD had organized several trainings on GEE in Nepal and Bangladesh in 2017.

The project aims to integrate near real-time snow water information into hydrological modelling software tools in the HKH region. The three-day training will provide hands-on experience for interested users on how to use the developed software and interpret individual (500 m fractional snow covered area, 25 km snow water equivalent, 500m dust radiative forcing) and combined (500 m snow water equivalent) products.