The International Programme for the Mountain (PIM), thanks to financial, human, technical means, will be able to mobilize the international community and other partners, greatly increase the capacity of mountain regions. It will aim primarily to restore and improve social structures and techniques for territorial management, to maintain and strengthen the core activities of the mountain economy (agriculture, pastoralism, forestry); better exploit natural resources, to develop innovative new activities (tourism, industry, handicrafts and services); to address the backlog in education, health, communications, housing.

The PIM will also, ultimately, stabilize the population of mountain and reduce the serious imbalances caused by the mass exodus of these regions.

The success of this program assumes that cultures, traditions, identities and local autonomy have to be recognized not as obstacles but as the foundation for progress and adherence to a collective project. It will lead, by a more dynamic recovery of all the riches of the mountain, increased participation of the latter in economic, social and cultural development of the nation and the maintenance and renewal of natural resources.

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 APMM acording to the three colleges that are represented (Leaders and representatives of the territories, NGOs, researchers, experts, civil society).

Elements of agenda:

2009