Transcript Focal Area and Cross Cutting Strategies – Land Degradation

Focal Area and Cross Cutting
Strategies – Land Degradation
GEF Expanded Constituency Workshop
July 6 – 9, 2011
Dakar, Senegal
Land Degradation
Focal Area Strategy
(Combating Desertification and Deforestation)
GEF-5 Priorities
• Expand LD portfolio to all 144 eligible countries
through inclusion of LD into STAR
• Address three main drivers of ecosystem degradation:
• land use change
• un-sustainable natural resources management and
consumption, and
• climate change.
• Improve the enabling framework
• Support to UNCCD (implementation of 10-year
strategy)
• Address role of agriculture and forest management in
production landscapes
Land Degradation Objective 1
Objective 1: Maintain or improve flows of agro-ecosystem services to sustain livelihoods
of local communities.
Enhanced enabling environment within the agricultural sector
• Capacity development to improve decision making
• Policy development
Improved agriculture management and sustainable flow of services in agro-ecosystems
• Improving community-based agricultural management including participatory decision making
& gender-related issues.
• Introduction of SL/WM practices
• Building of technical and institutional capacities to monitor and reduce GHG emissions from
agricultural activities.
• Improving management of impacts of climate change
• Improving rangeland management and sustainable pastoralism
Increased investments in SLM
• Securing innovative financing mechanism based on valuation of environmental services (e.g.
PES and other market-based mechanisms)
Land Degradation Objective 2
Objective 2: Generate sustainable flows of forest ecosystem
services in arid, semi-arid and sub-humid zones, including
sustaining livelihoods of forest-dependent people
Enhanced enabling environment within the forest sector in drylands dominated
countries
•
Capacity development: Forest policy and related legal and regulatory
frameworks
Improved forest management and sustained flows of forest ecosystem services in
drylands
•
Sustainable management practices of forests and trees outside forests for
timber and non-timber products.
•
Reforestation and use of local species, including agro-forestry
•
Management of impacts of climate change on forest lands, practices and
choice of species used for reforestation.
Increased investments in SFM in dryland forest ecosystems
•
Mechanisms to scale up and out good practices through e.g. private
sector, community-based organizations, extension services, and media.
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Diversify the financial resource base (PES, carbon-financing, etc.)
Land Degradation Objective 3
Objective 3: Reduce pressures on natural resources from
competing land uses in the wider landscape
Enhanced cross-sector enabling environment for integrated landscape
management
• Capacity development to improve decision-making in management of
production landscapes
• Policy development
Integrated landscape management practices adopted by local communities
• Improving management of agricultural activities within the vicinity of
protected areas
• Integrated watershed management, including transboundary areas where
SLM interventions can improve hydrological functions and services for
agro-ecosystem productivity (crop and livestock).
Increased investments in integrated landscape management
• Developing innovative financing mechanisms such as Paying for ecosystems
Services
Land Degradation Objective 4
Objective 4: Increase capacity to apply adaptive management tools in SLM
• Results-monitoring of UNCCD action programs
• Mainstreaming synergies and best practices for Natural Resource Management
• Development of guidelines and tools for assessing ecosystem stability, resilience
and maintenance of regulating services
Global Environmental Benefits
•
Improved provision of agro-ecosystem and forest ecosystem goods and
services.
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Reduced GHG emissions from agriculture, deforestation and forest
degradation and increased carbon sequestration.
•
Reduced vulnerability of agro-ecosystem and forest ecosystems to climate
change and other human-induced impacts.
National Socio-economic
Benefits
• Sustained livelihoods for people
dependent on the use and management
of natural resources (land, water, and
biodiversity).
• Reduced vulnerability to impacts of CC of
people dependent on the use and
management of natural resources in
agricultural and forest ecosystems.
Millennium
Development
Goals
Questions?
Thank you