Since 2018, ICIMOD’s Dr Andreas Schild Memorial Mountain Prize has been celebrating individuals, organisations, or private-sector entities based in the HKH or beyond for outstanding efforts in enabling sustainable and resilient mountain development in the region to benefit the environment as well as communities – particularly the poor, the youth, and women

In 2022, the Agriculture Machinery Centre of Paro, Bhutan, won the prize in the organisational category for their outstanding efforts in transforming Bhutan’s agriculture sector through needs-based mechanisation. Mah Begum Amjad from Gilgit, Pakistan, received the prize in the individual category for her remarkable leadership in entrepreneurship towards community transformation. Basant Pratap Singh, a journalist from Bajhang, Nepal, received an honourable mention in recognition of his efforts in covering stories of marginalised communities in the farwestern region of Nepal.