Courting catastrophe? Humanitarian policy and practice in a changing climate

Environmental dynamics in the Upper Indus River Basin

The overriding research objective is to critically examine the scope and practical ways in which
humanitarian responses may contribute to adaptation to climate change. Specifically, the project
seeks to:

1.  Enhance understanding of the long term implications of humanitarian interventions for efforts to
build long term resilience and sustainable adaptation to climate change  

2.  Identify lessons from current interventions and policy approaches, in particular regarding
discrete humanitarian policy  approaches that empower the voices of the vulnerable in
decision making and address long term vulnerability

3.  Develop guidelines for how humanitarian interventions can better contribute to climate
change adaptation in terms of use of information about complex climate and vulnerability
contexts in operational decisions

4.  Build capacity among Norwegian research and humanitarian actors to collaboratively
engage in action-oriented knowledge production regarding climate change adaptation  
 

1.       Establish two yearsMultidisciplinaryRegional MasterDegreeProgram in Conflict Peace and Development Studies (CPDS) with both a teaching and research component.

2. Develop mechanisms for establishing capacities of research, education  and outreach services on conflict, governance and gender in higher education institutions of Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan

3. Develop mechanisms for strengthening and institutionalizing democratic decision making processes

Research and Capacity building institutional collaborative project. This is five research grants which will be jointly impelemented by 11 partners institutions in Asia, Africa and Central America

There are numbers of geological hazards existing along the China Pakistan Economic Corridor including collapse of landslide and debirs flow. A well developed technology GIS and RS can provide valuable analysis of the spatial temporal dstribution and mechanism of geological hazards. This project will attempt understand and dtermine the major geological hazards along the corridor. The project will help CIIT develop capacity of the mountian Center

Afghan Refugees are living in Pakistan for several decades. Initially they are living in camps but after sometimes refugees get scaterred in both urban and rural areas of Pakistan. Majoriy of the refugees are living in KPK and Balochistan but they can be found in Punjab, sindh and Islamabad. Afghan refugees has both positive and negative consequences to economy, security and local culture. This study will try to understand the macro and micro level impact of Afghan refugees on national income. At the same time, socio-cultural impact of Afghan refugees will also be analyzed in the study. The study is initiated on the request of SAFRON and is funded by German government. In this project CIIT is partnering with FAFO and NMBU. The project will build the capacity of CIIT and the department of Development in particular. Faculty and student of the department will be involve in the project

Afghan Refugees Household Survey (1500) in KP and Balochistan 

This research project focuses on determinant factors of adoption of solar system in rural areas of district Mardan and district Charsadda. The underlying motivation of conducting this project is environment-friendly energy production and consumption so that the pressure on climate change can be relieved.