Landslides in the Himalayas pose a major challenge due to active seismo-tectonic activities, steep terrains, fragile geology, intense rainfall, and increasing human activities. The daily interaction and mobility of women and marginalized people with natural resources is high, making them more vulnerable to landslide risks. Their livelihood is dependent on firewood collection in forests and practicing agriculture on hill terraces, placing them at the forefront of both experiencing challenges and implementing Indigenous landslide risk mitigation techniques on hill slopes. Traditionally, these communities have mitigated landslide risks, practiced settlement planning, and managed agricultural farms by observing trees and their inclination with respect to hill slopes, managing drainage, and planting trees and shrubs. They know the hill slopes where they live and have been practicing slope-stabilizing techniques for a long time. The gender-based initiatives to manage natural resources, particularly the community forest in Nepal, is a successful model which is a participatory and informed decision-making approach. These initiatives have further strengthened the role of women and marginalized communities in natural resource management, making their contributions more structured and impactful. The federal constitution promulgated in 2015 provides concurrent power to the municipal government to practice legislative, judiciary, and implementation rights in a three-tier governance system: federal, province, and local. This is a major shift in power from central to local government, providing plenty of opportunity to act locally on disaster risk reduction and management. However, due to climate change and changes in seasonal rainfall patterns, they are now facing more frequent surprises and challenges in predicting landslides. The shifting rainfall patterns have made it increasingly difficult to anticipate hazardous events, highlighting the need for improved risk reduction strategies. Now, they realize the importance of Early Warning Systems (EWS) and integrating EWS into landslide risk reduction.