MPS announces updates to mountain funding and education databases

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The September 2023 issue of Peak to Peak announces updates to the Mountain Partnership's online education and mountain resource mobilization databases. Top news stories cover a village in the Greater Caucasus region of Azerbaijan developing a participatory land-use plan to protect mountain soils, Mountain Partnership (MP) member The Little Earth...

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Empowering youth voices in Central Asia: OSCE summer school spurs engagement on climate change and security in mountain areas

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From 17 to 26 August 2023, 20 young people from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan gathered in the northern Tian Shan mountains in eastern Kyrgyzstan to learn about climate-related security risks in mountain areas and deliberate on innovative solutions and collective actions to mitigate these risks.

The summer school was...

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MPS announces updates to mountain funding and education databases

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Resource mobilization and capacity development are two of the Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS)'s key pillars of work. To support Mountain Partnership members in their resource mobilization efforts as well as to develop their capacities on mountain issues, the MPS launched an online resource mobilization database and a mountain education database...

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Ahan village in Azerbaijan develops participatory land-use plan to protect mountain soils

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Ahan is a village with a population of 519 people located in the high mountains of the Greater Caucasus region of Azerbaijan. The majority of the population engages in livestock farming, continuing a tradition of nomadic herding with a transhumance lifestyle. The community migrates to the winter pastures located in...

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MP member Tergar Charity Nepal wins Equator Prize 2023

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Tergar Charity Nepal (TCN), a member of the Mountain Partnership, is among the winners of the 14th Equator Prize announced by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and partners. The 2023 award recognizes ten Indigenous Peoples and local communities from ten countries. The awardees will receive USD 15 000,...

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The Little Earth provides 20 solar-powered equipment sets to mountain families in Tajikistan

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The Little Earth, a member of the Mountain Partnership, provided 20 sets of solar-powered equipment to vulnerable mountain families in villages of the Yaghnob Valley, Tajikistan, on the eve of the Idi Kurbon holiday in June. The recipients included 20 women participating in the project "Sustainable use of natural...

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