"Mountain Women": Limits and hopes to their participation in the global mountain agenda. Presented by Gilles Rudaz at the "Perth II: Global Change and the World's Mountains" conference in Perth, Scotland in September 2010.

1. “MOUNTAIN WOMEN”
Limits and hopes to their participation
in the global mountain agenda
Gilles Rudaz
University of Geneva, Dpt of Geography
rudaz@mit.edu

3. CORPUS
• Texts and declarations GMA.
• Mountain Forum Women Discussion List;
• Conferences;
• Survey;
• Semi-directed interviews.

4. Mountain Women Matter!
• Key actors in the successful
implementation of sustainable mountain
development.

5. We, Mountain Women Matter!
• “I’ve seen a number of common challenges that
mountain women seem to share, some of which
even bridge the north-south divide” (E. Byers,
mf, 1999)
• “I would like to try to begin building a coalition for
mountain women, which will be able to catalyze
action for the International Year of Mountains”
(E. Byers, mf, 2000).

6. • “Without women, it is impossible to
achieve sustainable development in
mountain areas” (Thimphu Declaration).
• “Women play a crucial role in achieving
sustainable mountain development
worldwide” (Orem Declaration).

7. GAP
• Not a common self-designation;
• Themes: other objectives than smd;
• Scale of action: local;
• No tangible outcomes.

8. • “Most of our network members are all engaged
in the indigenous people's movement towards
the recognition of indigenous peoples' rights. We
do not emphasize mountains in our agenda
since most of us are in the mountains anyway
but we do recognize the particularities of the
mountain environment by which our cultures
have actually developed around”.

9. CONCLUSION

10. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE:
WOMEN OF THE MOUNTAINS
• MARCH 8-9, 2011
UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY, OREM, UTAH
• Utah Valley University & the Kyrgyz National
Center for the Development of Mountain
Regions.
• Call for papers: November 30, 2010
• www.womenofthemountains.org
• rudaz@mit.edu