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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
The United Nations (UN) has recognized a collaborative initiative to protect mountain landscapes in Kyrgyzstan, Rwanda, Serbia and Uganda as one of 10 pioneering efforts to revive the natural world.
The...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today marked International Mountain Day 2022 with a high-level event at its headquarters in Rome, a series of celebrations around...
Under the theme “Women move mountains”, global celebrations of International Mountain Day (IMD) 2022 began at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Headquarters on Friday, 9...
The new global biodiversity framework (GBF) due to be agreed at negotiations known as COP15 in Montreal in December, and aimed at halting and reversing the loss of nature, needs...
The fifth annual GROW – Agrobiodiversity in a changing climate course concluded earlier this month. The two-week course held online from 15–25 November, included lecturers from the Mountain Partnership Secretariat,...
International leaders and mountain champions will discuss the key role women play in environmental protection and social and economic sustainable development in mountain areas, during high-level celebrations of International Mountain...
The Economic and Financial Committee (Second Committee) of the United Nations General Assembly approved the new resolution on sustainable mountain development on 22 November 2022 during its seventy-seventh session. The...
A series of side events at COP27 provided an opportunity to discuss how to strengthen participation of mountain people in national and international policy processes and called for greater climate...
Five mountain producers' organizations and institutions have been selected to receive grants through the Mountain Facility, a financing mechanism operated by the Mountain Partnership (MP) to respond to members' requests...
The Mountain Partnership - the United Nations alliance dedicated to mountains - is all about working together for sustainable mountain development around the world. Our vast and diverse membership counts...
In a new paper, Imperial College London researchers outline how integrated water strategies that include scientists working directly with mountain communities on the ground could help them drive their own...