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The second objective should seek to promote
and facilitate the formation or strengthening of
institutional arrangements directly addressing
sustainable mountain ecosystem development at all
levels of governance, including the establishment of
coordination centres and the designation of focal
points, through actions that may include:
• Reviewing existing institutional arrangements
and governance mechanisms and identifying
weaknesses or gaps requiring action for
establishing institutions and/or strengthening
their operations to more effectively address
sustainable mountain ecosystem development;
• Developing frameworks and guidelines for
strengthening institutional governance systems
including establishing new ones where necessary;
• Facilitating and coordinating the development
and strengthening of institutional arrangements
both within countries and at the transnational
level; and
• Establishing and operationalizing a regional
framework for monitoring and evaluation of
institutional coordination and collaboration on
mountain issues.
The third objective should seek to integrate both
formal and informal systems and norms of governance
at subnational, national and transnational levels,
through actions such as:
• Formulating policy frameworks, guidelines and
mechanisms to enable the integration of formal
and informal systems and norms; and
• Mobilizing resources to operationalize and facilitate
policy harmonization and integration processes.
Increased investment in mountain
development and conservation, and an
end to the consistent marginalization
of the mountain ecosystems and
communities
Levels of investment in the remote mountainous areas
of East Africa remain low; preference tends to be given
to more accessible lowland areas. In adherence to the
principle of social equity and given the potential for
resource development in mountain areas, there is need
to reverse this trend and bring an end to the neglect and
marginalization of mountain areas and communities.
This calls for increased investment in mountain
development and conservation, including the
mobilization of resources for mountain-specific
programmes. In order to clearly determine how
much mountain areas have benefited from overall
national investment, disaggregation of country level
investment from public private partnerships and
Public Investment Programmes is required, to avoid
further marginalization.
Proposed interventions relating to investment should
firstly seek to promote increased investment in
mountain areas through developing an appreciation
of the importance, uniqueness and potential of
mountain ecosystems, resources and communities;
and increased investment in the development
and implementation of relevant programmes and
projects, through actions that may include:
• Assessments to evaluate and determine the
potential of mountain ecosystems for conservation
and development investments;
• Development of mechanisms for lobbying high-
level political leaders and policymakers on the
importance of mountain issues and the need to
designate mountain regions as areas for priority
investment; and
Kikuyu couple, Thomson Falls, Kenya