Transcript Focal Area and Cross Cutting Strategies – Land Degradation GEF Expanded Constituency Workshop March 22 – 24, 2011 Kyiv, Ukraine.

Focal Area and Cross Cutting
Strategies – Land Degradation
GEF Expanded Constituency Workshop
March 22 – 24, 2011
Kyiv, Ukraine
Land Degradation Strategy
(Desertification and Deforestation Strategy)
GEF Achievements in Land Degradation
• $ 340 million invested, $2.4 billion in co-financing to support
more than 88 projects
• The GEF has invested in more than 40 countries to deliver
sustainable land management innovations in over 100 million
hectares of production landscapes, mainly in drylands to support
implementation of the UNCCD
• The portfolio includes more than $2 billion of regional
development financing to benefit 28 countries in Sub-Saharan
Africa (agriculture and food security), five countries in the Middle
East and North Africa (integrated land and water management),
and five countries in Central Asia (dryland management).
Land Degradation Objective 1
Objective 1:
MAINTAIN OR IMPROVE FLOWS OF AGRO-ECOSYSTEM SERVICES TO SUSTAIN
LIVELIHOODS OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES.
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Capacity development to improve decision making
Improving community-based agricultural management including participatory decision making & gender-related issues.
Building of technical and institutional capacities to monitor and reduce GHG emissions from agricultural activities.
Improving management of impacts of climate change
Securing innovative financing mechanism based on valuation of environmental services (e.g. PES and other market-based
mechanisms)
Improving rangeland management and sustainable pastoralism
Land Degradation Objective 2
Objective 2:
GENERATE SUSTAINABLE FLOWS OF FOREST
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN ARID, SEMI-ARID AND SUBHUMID ZONES, INCLUDING SUSTAINING LIVELIHOODS
OF FOREST-DEPENDENT PEOPLE
• Capacity development: Forest policy and related legal and regulatory
frameworks
• Sustainable management 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.
• Mechanisms to scale up and out good practices through e.g. private
sector, community-based organizations, extension services, and media.
Land Degradation Objective 3
Objective 3:
REDUCE PRESSURES ON NATURAL RESOURCES FROM
COMPETING LAND USES IN THE WIDER LANDSCAPE
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Capacity development to improve decision-making in management of
production landscapes
Developing innovative financing mechanisms such as Paying for ecosystems
Services
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 agroecosystem productivity (crop and livestock).
Land Degradation Objective 4
Objective 4
INCREASE CAPACITY TO APPLY ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT TOOLS IN SLM
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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
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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.
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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
Thank you