REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, KATHMANDU -- The International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in partnership with the National Planning Commission of Nepal is organizing a four-day conference on Addressing Poverty and Vulnerability in the Hindu Kush Himalayas: Forging Regional Partnership to Enable Transformative Change, here on December 1-4.

More than 200 participants from Nepal, India, China, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Pakistan, Myanmar and Bangladesh will be taking part in the conference in a bid to improve the understanding on the drivers of mountain poverty and identifying approaches in poverty reduction that will effectively address the issue.

The conference also aims to strengthen partnerships and regional cooperation that will work towards addressing poverty and vulnerability in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region, said ICIMOD's program coordinator Anja Moller Rasmussen at a press briefing on Monday.

According to the organizer, the deliberations during the conference will look to provide concrete inputs that can contribute to strengthening the mountain perspective in the United Nations post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It will also be relevant for all those national and international organizations having a mandate for sustainable development and poverty alleviation, particularly for the mountains.

Each day of the conference will discuss on different issues related to alleviating poverty in the mountain region and the importance of making these issues a national agenda, said Dhrupad Chaudhary of the organizing team.

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