Project Lead, Youth Innovation Lab
Goma Karki is an environmental and sustainability enthusiast who aspires to influence communities to move towards sustainability. She was one of the top six finalists of the WIN DRR Rising Start Award 2023.
Goma has been leading disaster and climate-related projects that promote youth’s inclusion in climate action and green growth. One of those projects is Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Fellowship, which aims to mobilize graduates under the age of 29 to bridge data and technical gaps at the local level. Through the DRR & Climate Fellowship, she has been leading the localization of Nepal’s first integrated Disaster Information Management System Bipad Portal. The portal is owned by the Government of Nepal – the Ministry of Home Affairs and the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority. To support the localization of the Bipad Portal, Goma Karki has worked closely with young professionals, providing training and mentoring to help them assess data needs and gaps, bridge the data gap by field data collection, sensitize to the importance of data for planning and budgeting, transfer technical capacity to run Bipad Portal and use data for informed decision making.