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The Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) is an international network that promotes research on mountain regions across borders and disciplines through connection and collaboration – with a view to supporting pathways towards sustainable development.
Through flagship activities, synthesis workshops, working groups, events, and online platforms we bring researchers and stakeholders from diverse disciplines and backgrounds together. We work with the mountain research community and society more broadly to identify research priorities and possibilities for common action, and we support this common action by providing targeted funding, coordination, and administrative assistance. We also strive to keep the research community informed, and work with research organizations and funding agencies to ensure that mountain global change topics are recognized and addressed.
Through MRI's flagship and community-led activities, such as MRI Working Groups (Resilience), we also strive to ensure we connect and provide scientific inputs and synthesis contributions to assessments relevant for DRR and the Sendai Framework, such as the GAR Reports.
MRI also facilitates a connection between the scientific research communities with policy makers, practitioners and the general pubic interested in and working for the well-being and sustainable development of mountains, their ecosystems and communities.
The Group on Earth Observations - Global Network for Observations and Information in Mountain Environments (GEO GNOME) is a GEO Work Programme Initiative that is co-led and coordinated at MRI, which seeks to connect and facilitate access to diverse sources of mountain observation data and information regarding drivers, conditions, and trends in biophysical and socio-economic processes of change at different scales, including DRR.
MRI is a partner of Future Earth, and a Participating Organisation and Programme Board member in the Group on Earth Observations, GEO.
Carolina Adler (MRI Executive Director)
http://www.mountainresearchinitiative.org
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.