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'Advocacy Strategies and Approaches: A Training of Trainers Manual on Advocacy Strategies for Community-based Organisations in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas', and its companion 'Resource Manual', were developed for potential trainers of community-based organisations (CBOs) in the HKH region. The manuals are intended to provide useful guides for conducting regional and local-level training on...
Advocacy Strategies and Approaches: A Training of Trainers Manual on Advocacy Strategies for Community-based Organisations in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas, and its companion Resource Manual, were developed for potential trainers of community-based organisations (CBOs) in the HKH region. The manuals are intended to provide useful guides for conducting regional and local-level training on...
The results of this survey will help guide the Alliance in meeting certain member group needs and will serve as a measuring point to gauge relative progress over time. For example, the Sierra Nevada Alliance will use the results to identify priorities for the Community Group Support Program and to secure financial and other resources for individual programmes and efforts. The results may also...
The majority of California’s freshwater comes from the Sierra Nevada, falling in winter as a thick blanket of snow that slowly melts in spring, delivering enormous quantities of fresh, clean water to fill the state’s rivers and reservoirs in support of its cities, industry and agriculture. As the Earth’s climate warms up, more of this water will fall as rain rather than snow...
The Directory is in three sections:
- People
- Organisations
- Places
The section entitled “People” aims to identify key individuals working in the protected areas field. Such individuals include experts from the region, members of the WCPA within the East Asia region and the Regional WCPA Steering Committee for East Asia. As well...
The Metsovion Interdisciplinary Research Centre (M.I.R.C.) of the National Technical University of Athens (N.T.U.A.) was founded in 1993. Its principal aim is to contribute to the protection and development of mountainous environments and local European cultures The activities of N.T.U.A. M.I.R.C include interdisciplinary research for the Protection and Development of Mountainous Environment...
In August 2008, CONDESAN, as a co-sponsor with the Secretary General of the Andean Community’s office, the Andean Initiative of Alliance for the Mountains, FAO, and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (COSUDE), held an online conference: “The Food Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities in the Andes”.
This article presents some relevant notes and thoughts...
This section contains list of key resources on mountain biodiversity aggregated from different sources focusing on the global and key regional resources. Additional information on resources including the regional and national level is available at www.mtnforum.org/wisw/index.php . As the focus is on integrated approaches to mountain biodiversity resources focusing on single species have been...
During 2006, InfoAndina led a meeting of the Andean Initiative (AI) of the Mountain Partnership (MP) held in Lima. This meeting was attended by representatives from the Initiative’s member countries, as well as from the Main Groups. The meeting was jointly called by InfoAndina and the Peruvian Foreign Affairs Department, with the financial support of the Mountain Partnership Secretariat...
This study of objectives and key research themes of mountain research institutes/centres in Europe was carried out in the framework of the collaboration between the Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) and the Mountain Forum (MF) 2006-2008.
The study should help in fostering synergies between efforts of European research organisations, one of the main objectives of the Mountain...
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