The Global Change Research Network in African Mountains (GCRN_AM) was launched at the Kampala Workshop in July 2007. After the Perth Open Science Conference ?Global Change in Mountain Regions? in 2005, the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) committed itself to launching regional research networks in different regions of the world. At the same time, MRI understood that other organisations had related interests in global change and African mountain regions. The following organisations are working together in a network: The Global Mountain Program of the CGIAR, UNESCO, the African Highland Initiative, the Center for International Forest Research, the Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment of DIVERSITAS, as well as the universities of Makerere (Kampala, UG), Egerton (Nakuru, KE), Bern (Switzerland), and Witswatersrand (Johannesburg, ZA).
