Dhaka, June 1 -- The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), in partnership with the Global Resilience Partnership (GRP), has announced the 12 winners of the second cohort of the Hindu Kush Himalaya Innovation Challenge for Entrepreneurs (HKH-ICE).

Building on the success of its first cohort, HKH-ICE 2.0 supports entrepreneurs from Bangladesh's Chattogram Hill Tracts, Bhutan, India's Himalayan states, and Nepal.

The challenge fund, backed by the UK Government, supports and scales climate-resilient enterprises across the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region, one of the world's most climate-vulnerable mountain systems.

The selected enterprises operate across four priority sectors: resilient agriculture, water secur...