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22/02/2023
About 7 200 glaciers in Pakistan will be monitored thanks to a project being led by the EV-K2 Association, an Italian member of the Mountain Partnership. The Italian-Pakistani project "Glaciers and...
13/02/2023
Considering more than half of humanity relies on mountain freshwater for everyday life, the careful management of mountain water resources is a global priority. In the lead up to the...
10/02/2023
The Mountain Partnership Secretariat is pleased to announce the call for applications for the sixteenth IPROMO Summer School. This annual training programme on sustainable mountain development is jointly organized by...
09/02/2023
On 30 January 2023, the Ministry of Digital Development of the Kyrgyz Republic put a 2022 Kyrgyz Express Post (KEP) postage stamp into circulation dedicated to the International Year of...
06/02/2023
Advancing sustainability is the foundation for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the leading framework for international cooperation, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Another document, the United Nations Declaration...
03/02/2023
Invest Appalachia (IA), a regional social investment platform and member of the Mountain Partnership since 2022, has secured USD 19 million of new investment in the Invest Appalachia Fund (IA...
30/01/2023
Thirteen producers involved in the Mountain Partnership Products (MPP) initiative explored opportunities to increase synergies between Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) and Internal Control Systems (ICS) in organic agriculture during a...
27/01/2023
We are deeply saddened to report the loss of Antonio "Tuco" Aramayo, who passed away on 18 January 2023. Throughout his professional career, Antonio was devoted to the rural development...
27/01/2023
The Academic Consortium "International University of Kyrgyzstan", jointly with the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic and International Institute of Mountains, hosted an international conference on 19–21 January...
25/01/2023
Restoring mountain ecosystems is the theme of this year's International Mountain Day on 11 December. This theme was selected to fully include mountains in the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021–2030,...
24/01/2023
Calling all members of the Mountain Partnership, the Mountain Partnership Secretariat is compiling inputs for its 2022 Annual Report. Each year, the Secretariat dedicates part of its annual report to spotlighting...
20/01/2023
How can migration contribute to sustainable development in mountains? The Mountain Research and Development journal invites systematic assessments of innovative interventions or action research, empirical studies and meta-analyses on migration...
16/01/2023
The Mountain Partnership Secretariat has launched a Request for Expressions of Interest for a Service Provider. We are looking for a service provider to support the business incubation phase of the...
13/01/2023
Four national governments became members of the Mountain Partnership in 2022 – the Governments of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Korea, Panama and Tajikistan – raising the total number of member...
11/01/2023
Under the theme "Women move mountains", governments, organizations and individuals in 46 countries organized over 93 events to mark International Mountain Day (IMD) 2022. As the lead United Nations (UN) agency...
04/01/2023
Since 2011, the Utah International Mountain Forum (UIMF) – a coalition of student clubs at Utah Valley University (UVU), a member of the Mountain Partnership – has used the student-engaged learning...
23/12/2022
The community of the world's nations adopted a landmark framework to support global biodiversity on 19 December, and the agreement contains significant contributions from the Food and Agriculture Organization of...
21/12/2022
The Mountain Women of the World network is planning its first group expedition as a transnational collective of women-centred mountaineering groups. Mountain women from Argentina, the Plurinational State of Bolivia,...
20/12/2022
On 20–22 November 2022, the first edition of the training "The role and participation of women in the development of local communities" was held in the village of Makhtimain, Yagnob...
16/12/2022
The day-long conference "The message of the mountains", anchored in the words of the Laudato Sì, took place in the Vatican City on 12 December 2022 in celebration of International...