# Presentation: 245939

## PARTNERSHIP ON LAND DEGRADATION &SUSTAINABLELAND MANAGEMENTIN CARIBBEAN SIDS 

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## International Framework for Land Degradation and Land Management 

- The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) provides the Global Framework for addressing land degradation and sustainable land management issues in Small Island Developing States.

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## Global Mechanism

- The Global Mechanism (GM) was established in keeping with Article 21 of the Convention to “increase the effectiveness and efficiency of financial mechanisms and promote action leading to the mobilisation and channeling of substantial financial resources, including for the transfer of technology to affected developing Country Parties”

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## GEF Operational Programme on Sustainable Land Management

- The Global Environment Facility, in May 2003 approved the Operational Programme on Sustainable Land Management (OP 15 ) after establishing a new Focal Area on Land Degradation focussing primarily on Desertification and Deforestation.

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## Reseau  International de ONGs Pour la Desertification (RIOD) 

- RIOD is an international network of NGOS which nave been established as part of the process of the implementation of the UNCCD
- The Caribbean Network for Integrated Rural Development (CNIRD) is the Caribbean Sub-regional Focal Point of RIOD

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## Sub-regional Workshop on Land Degradation in the Caribbean

- February 3rd –6th 2004 in Trinidad
- To discuss all issues relevant to Land Degradation in the Caribbean sub-region
- To finalise a Sub-regional Technical Cooperation Project
- To apprise Country Parties of the roles of the various agencies as regards assistance  in combatting land degradation

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## Partnership Initiative – Major Elements

- The elaboration of National Action Plans –to enhance the technical and financial support for Country Parties in the completion of National Action Plans and mainstreaming the NAP process into national and regional development agendas including linkages with the UNFCC and the UNCBD

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## Partnership Initiative – Major Elements Cont’d 

-    Regional/Sub-regional Platform for the implementation of the UNCCD -
- to provide technical support to Caribbean SIDS in honouring obligations under the UNCCD
- to identify needs, priorities and niches of opportunity for investments within the framework of sub-regional integration efforts and agreements

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## Partnership Initiative – Major Elements Cont’d

-    Elaboration of Integrated Sub-regional Action Plans –
- Sub-regional Action Programme on Sustainable Land Management fro Caribbean SIDS
- Strategic planning, design and implementation of of initiatives towards rural poverty alleviation, sustainable use of natural resources and rehabilitation of degraded land areas.

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## Partnership Initiative – Major Elements Cont’d

- Development of Methods and Tools for Monitoring and Measuring Land Degradation –the promotion and mobilisation of technical and financial resources for the design, development and implementation of initiatives and projects to assess and monitor land degradation

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## Partnership Initiative – Major Elements Cont’d

-    Land Degradation Assessment (LADA)/ FAO Technical Cooperation Programme –
- to assist Caribbean countries to prepare National Action Plans for the rehabilitation of degraded lands
- to formulate pilot capacity building projects for respective countries to improve land management and the quality of life for its citizens

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## Partnership Initiative –Major Elements Cont’d

-    Training, Research, Capacity Development and Policy Analysis –
- to strengthen partnership with national and sub-regional entities towards the enhancement of data-collection,information dissemination and  downscaling of global models
- to promote effective and systematic identification of existing success stories, pilot cases and best practices

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## Partnership Initiative –Major Elements Cont’d

-    South-South Cooperation –
- programmes to be designed towards more effective transfer of knowledge and experiences, gained in Cuba and the Dominican Republic, on land degradation issues to other Caribbean countries

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## Partnership Initiative Major Elements Cont’d

-   Targeted UNEP/GEF Interventions –
- initiatives in the process of being developed which will address the rehabilitation of degraded lands in island ecosystems, the development of benchmarks and indicators and traditional knowledge

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## Participating Countries

- Antigua and Barbuda
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Grenada
- Guyana

- Haiti
- Jamaica
- St. Kitts and Nevis
- St. Lucia
- St. Vincent and the Grenadines
- Suriname
- Trinidad an Tobago

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## Partners

- CARICOM Secretariat
- UNEP
- FAO
- GLOBAL MECHANISM OF THE UNCCD
- UWI
- CIVIL SOCIETY (RIOD)
- GTZ
- COUNTRY PARTIES

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## Sub-Regional Task Force

- St. Lucia  (Chair)
- Barbados
- The Bahamas
- Belize
- Jamaica
- GM of the UNCCD
- FAO

- UNEP
- GTZ
- UWI
- CNIRD (RIOD)
- EEPA (RIOD)
- CARICOM SECRETARIAT

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- THANK YOU

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