A research, training and technical consulting organization strengthening humanitarian action, disaster risk management, climate resilience and sustainable development through evidence, innovation and locally grounded practice.
Ganovation was established to strengthen humanitarian action, disaster risk management and community resilience by bridging research, policy and field practice.
Ganovation is a Nepal-based research, training and technical consulting organization committed to strengthening humanitarian action, disaster risk management, climate resilience and sustainable development.
Its work supports evidence-based decision-making, institutional strengthening and community-led resilience through disaster risk reduction, humanitarian preparedness and response, climate adaptation, GIS and spatial analysis, monitoring and evaluation, and capacity development.
Ganovation operates at the intersection of research, technical advisory services and field implementation. The organization works with public institutions, academic partners, humanitarian actors and communities to turn complex disaster and climate challenges into practical systems, tools and learning processes.
Its approach combines scientific evidence with local knowledge, participatory methods and operational experience. This allows Ganovation to support the full cycle of resilience work, from understanding risk and developing decision-support tools to strengthening institutional capacity, documenting learning and informing policy.
The organization is designed to remain technically rigorous while staying close to implementation. Its leadership and multidisciplinary network enable Ganovation to connect academic research with municipal systems, community practice, humanitarian preparedness and long-term resilience planning.
Ganovation’s leadership includes Dr. Indrajit Pal and Dr. Ganesh Dhungana, supported by a multidisciplinary network of researchers, humanitarian practitioners, GIS specialists, trainers and development professionals.
Associate Professor and Chair, Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.
Dr. Pal brings more than two decades of work across disaster risk governance and policy, vulnerability and risk assessment, capacity development of decision-makers, coastal and delta resilience, critical-infrastructure risk, systemic and cascading risk, GIS/remote sensing, climate adaptation and disaster-risk education.
AIT academic profile ↗Postdoctoral Fellow, Disaster Resilience Research Network, University of British Columbia.
Dr. Dhungana holds a PhD in Disaster Management and previously served as Project Lead for the Program on Resilient Communities at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. His research focuses on disaster governance, community resilience, social vulnerability, sustainability frameworks, indigenous knowledge, climate-change adaptation and humanitarian action.
UBC academic profile ↗To contribute to stronger humanitarian and disaster risk management practice by supporting resilient communities through research, innovation, professional training and evidence based technical solutions.
Strengthen preparedness, emergency response and community resilience; support partners with practical DRM solutions; advance climate resilience, inclusion, local leadership and geospatial innovation.
Strong local institutions, informed decisions and meaningful partnerships are central to the organization’s approach to safer and more sustainable communities.
Ganovation organizes its technical expertise into three integrated divisions, mirroring how its knowledge contributions move from disaster and climate science, to community practice, to governance and policy.
Risk intelligence, preparedness and climate-resilience services that connect hazard analysis with operational decision-making.
Practical learning and locally grounded resilience approaches designed to strengthen people, institutions and community-led preparedness.
Applied research, policy analysis and institutional systems that help governments and partners translate evidence into accountable resilience action.
The company profile highlights collaborations across academia, municipal governance and civil society.
CRISTA: collaboration supporting municipal disaster preparedness through digital disaster information management systems, GIS applications, institutional capacity development and technical training.
Documentation and knowledge management support for the National Dialogue on Climate Change, including technical documentation, rapporteur services, proceedings and knowledge products for municipal engagement.
Technical consultancy and capacity development for community resilience and disaster preparedness, emphasizing locally led DRR and digital tools that improve preparedness and response capacity.
Professional facilitation and technical support for Early Childhood Development programmes through training delivery, participant engagement and programme documentation.
The Municipal Association of Nepal convened the dialogue to strengthen municipal understanding of climate vulnerabilities, encourage risk-informed planning, deepen inter-governmental coordination and translate climate policy into local action.
Ganovation Research Center served as the Documentation and Publication Partner. CRISTA was recognized as an Innovation Partner, connecting the dialogue’s policy agenda with practical climate-resilience technology.
Ganovation’s innovation portfolio connects geospatial technology, livelihood resilience, local decision-making and applied research. These initiatives show how evidence can move from analysis to usable systems and assessment tools.
A Ganovation, Asian Institute of Technology innovation collaboration supporting climate- and disaster-resilient decision-making. CRISTA links geospatial data, community-generated information and digital dashboards to help local authorities monitor critical infrastructure and respond to emerging hazard impacts.
Visit official CRISTA project ↗LiSeRA provides an index-based approach for assessing livelihood security and resilience in Lower Mekong Basin communities exposed to multiple hazards. The framework organizes measurable livelihood and resilience dimensions into a practical assessment approach that can inform risk-reduction and development decisions.
Read LiSeRA on ScienceDirect ↗
Field-based CRISTA training has focused on practical system use, mobile incident reporting, geo-tagging, dashboard monitoring, information verification, visualization and coordination. Participants have worked directly with the platform through hands-on exercises designed to strengthen institutional preparedness, improve information flow and support more timely, technology-enabled disaster response.
The learning approach combines system demonstration, guided practice and discussion so that users can connect CRISTA’s digital functions with real operational needs, institutional responsibilities and community-based reporting processes.
Combining GIS, spatial information and community-generated data to make risk information operational for local authorities.
Turning complex livelihood and resilience concepts into structured indicators that support comparison, prioritization and evidence-informed action.
Connecting academic knowledge with municipal systems, institutional capacity and locally grounded disaster and climate resilience practice.
Selected publications and knowledge products associated with Ganovation’s leadership and research network, organized around three areas of contribution.
Ganovation’s profile emphasizes participatory and hands-on learning for government officials, humanitarian practitioners, security agencies, local authorities and community organizations.
The organization positions training as part of institutional strengthening, not simply knowledge transfer. The intent is to improve decision-making, preparedness systems and local capability.
Neelkantha Municipality stakeholders engaged with CRISTA’s operational workflow, incident reporting and dashboard use for local disaster preparedness.
Field outreach demonstrates how digital disaster information can be explained in accessible formats to support awareness and reporting culture.
Engagement with response actors supports stronger operational understanding of geo-spatial information, incident verification and coordinated response.
Ganovation seeks collaboration with organizations committed to humanitarian principles, resilience, inclusion and sustainable development.
Kathmandu, Nepal