The Indian Institute of and Water Conservation (ICAR-IISWC) and Sparsh Himalaya have signed a memorandum of understanding to execute inter-organisational collaborative engagements to promote Himalayan Ecosystems, people and Resources.
ICAR-IISWC director M Madhu informed that the MoU is aimed at stimulating and facilitating collaboration and promoting mutually-interested common programmes that help advance the interests of the Himalayan ecosystems and related intellectual life and cultural development. National and international level collaborative programmes and engagements for enhanced outreach, and awareness on technological outcomes and success stories would also be aimed at through this MoU.
The potential areas of collaboration include research, training, capacity building, experience sharing, and knowledge management in the domain of rural development and natural resource-based sustainable livelihood promotion.
Immediately, bothorganisations are developing a joint plan for a national conference in January 2022 on the technological contributions and success stories of the research and development organisations working on the welfare of the Himalayas.