The Documentation Centre has improved greatly. The Centre's publications, both technical and general, have increased in number over the years. In-house Publications' Services Publication services have grown considerably in both quality and quantity. The support services to the training programme have been improved and now include monitoring and evaluation. The training facilities are still not up to the standards required.
Outside facilities have to be used.
Regionally, it undertakes the role of a facilitator of regional collaboration and exchange between countries. Nationally and locally, it is considered to be a depository of mountain-specific knowledge relating to technologies, policies, and sectoral assessment of mountain economies and environments. It is this increasing presence that is permitting the Centre to organize different mountain development programmes, together with national and local institutions and organizations. The doubling of core programme support, which was necessary if the Centre was to play a more active role in the region, is a positive indication of RCP-I matching the region's needs with donors' policies on environmental conservation and poverty alleviation. The increasing interest of the regional countries in participating in nearly all the programmes and the openness demonstrated by the member countries in sharing experiences with others are also important gauges of the value attached by the countries to the different mountain development activities organized by the Centre.