Global Initiatives
Mountain Countries Sharing Knowledge and Solutions
At the Instituto de Montaña, we are committed to extending our regional mountain advocacy work beyond the Andes. We seek to strengthen the influence of an alliance of mountain countries represented by the United Nations’ Mountain Partnership. Our global work includes outreach to partner organizations abroad to share techniques and solutions that have proven successful in one mountain area with communities facing similar problems half way around the world.Featured Projects
Ecosystem-based Adaptation Projects
Our Mountain Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) projects use an approach that puts local mountain people and their surrounding ecosystems at the heart of adapting to climate change. After completing innovative projects in the Andes of Peru, we have expanded our EbA approach to support similar work in other mountain countries including Bhutan, Colombia, Kenya and Uganda. In these six countries we’re working together with our IUCN colleagues to develop EbA programs, taking the valuable lessons learned and sharing the most effective solutions and techniques with other mountain communities within each nation, and also among mountain countries worldwide. More info in the Mountain EbA Program section.
Influencing Governments, Encouraging Investments
The Instituto de Montaña is proud of the solid relationships we’ve built over the decades with key regional and national governments. Our regional and international work seeks to influence national level policies that can help take effective mountain projects to scale. Our efforts to encourage regional, national and international funding for mountain projects helps successful solutions and techniques be shared across a nation and between countries.
Mountain Knowledge Exchange
We have seen the benefits of sharing traditional and scientific knowledge from one mountain culture with another on the other side of the planet. As part of the High Mountains Adaptation Project funded by USAID, the Instituto de Montaña held innovative workshops that serve as examples of the kind of cross pollination we think is essential between mountain communities, scientists and policymakers worldwide.
Adapting to a World Without Glaciers, an international, multidisciplinary workshop held in Lima and Huaraz, Peru in July 2009. This workshop facilitated discussions among scientists, practitioners, and policy makers about climate change vulnerabilities and risks in glacier-dominated systems; created innovative approaches to climate change adaptation; and identifed priorities for research, collaboration, and action.
Andean-Asian Mountains Global Knowledge Exchange On Glaciers, Glacial Lakes, Water & Hazard Management, a mobile workshop held in the Mt. Everest region of Nepal in September 2011.
“Glacial Flooding and Disaster Risk Management: Knowledge Exchange and Field Training.” held in Huaraz, Peru in July, 2013.
Adapting to a World Without Glaciers, an international, multidisciplinary workshop held in Lima and Huaraz, Peru in July 2009. This workshop facilitated discussions among scientists, practitioners, and policy makers about climate change vulnerabilities and risks in glacier-dominated systems; created innovative approaches to climate change adaptation; and identifed priorities for research, collaboration, and action.
Andean-Asian Mountains Global Knowledge Exchange On Glaciers, Glacial Lakes, Water & Hazard Management, a mobile workshop held in the Mt. Everest region of Nepal in September 2011.
“Glacial Flooding and Disaster Risk Management: Knowledge Exchange and Field Training.” held in Huaraz, Peru in July, 2013.