A €54.24 million climate resilience initiative has been launched in Gilgit-Baltistan (a mountainous region in northern Pakistan bordering China and Afghanistan, highly vulnerable to glacial melt and extreme weather), backed by France's Agence Française de Développement, the European Union, the Aga Khan Foundation, and the regional government. The Gilgit-Baltistan Rural Development and Climate Resilience project will deliver 216 water and sanitation schemes, small-scale hydropower generating up to 1,300 kilowatts of clean energy, and green retrofits for thousands of homes, targeting around 43,200 households — roughly 325,600 people — with women making up at least 40 per cent of beneficiaries. The initiative matters because Gilgit-Baltistan is among the world's most climate-exposed regions, and the project represents one of the largest coordinated international investments in its infrastructure and institutional capacity to date.