This meeting is a forum for expression, reflection, recognition, proposal and organization of mountain people in the world:

• In recognition of their rights, their languages and cultures
• For the control of natural resources
• For the implementation of policies allowing them to live in dignity and sustainably on their territories by enhancing their wealth
• For the formation of new alliances North-South and South-South in order to improve their living conditions in a context of liberalization and globalization that threatens their future.

It must lead to the finalization and adoption of a platform of demands and proposals in the form of a PIM (International Programme for the Mountain).

This PIM will be presented to the States as part of an International Ministerial Conference on the Mountain. 

Documents Founders:

Charter for World Mountain Population(PDF)(FR)(23K)

and conclusions of the six regional meetings in 2006 in Africa, the Himalayas and the Andes. www.mountainpeople.org

Another document of interest:

All the resolutions and decisions adopted since the meeting in Quito in 2002 (regional meetings, seminars and workshops).

Relations with other actors:

The whole network of members and partners of the WMPA according to the three colleges that are represented (Leaders and representatives of the territories, NGOs, researchers, experts, civil society).

Elements of agenda:

2nd half of 2008