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Building Community Resilience to Glacial Lake Outburst Floods in India
Implementing Partner: Build Change
Project name:Building community resilience to Glacial Lake Outburst Floods in India
This project integrates community knowledge to enhance resilience against Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) risks in the Indian Himalayas.
By using participatory workshops and visual tools like photography, it co-develops locally relevant risk reduction protocols.
This approach ensures that community perspectives drive effective, sustainable risk reduction strategies. Strengthening local ownership fosters long-term preparedness, enabling vulnerable regions to anticipate, respond to, and adapt to GLOF hazards more effectively through collaborative, knowledge-driven frameworks.
downstream of
190 high-risk
glacial lakes
lakes prone to
landslides or
avalanches
Eastern Himalayas vs.
other regions
Impact and Key Findings
1
This study shapes targeted risk reduction strategies for GLOF risks in high-risk Himalayan areas, influencing land use, infrastructure planning, and disaster risk reduction. Its insights guide localized climate resilience efforts, ensuring more effective adaptation and long-term preparedness.
2
By engaging communities in GLOF risk reduction protocol development, this study strengthens local awareness and preparedness. It equips residents with the knowledge and tools needed to effectively respond to and manage flood risks, fostering long-term resilience in vulnerable regions.
3
Through participatory photography and workshops, this study enables communities to define their own risk narratives, strengthening local agency, ownership, and engagement. By fostering inclusive climate adaptation, it ensures more effective, community-driven risk reduction strategies for long-term resilience.
