Sustainable management of land use, particularly of water, soils and vegetation, in affected areas 6 11 6

Sustainable management of land use, particularly of water, soils and vegetation, in affected areas 36 40 11

AOAD Arab Organization for Agricultural Development

Sustainable management of land use, particularly of water, soils and vegetation, in affected areas

These courses have also considered the requirements under the GEF Operational Programme on sustainable land management.

Sustainable management of land use, particularly of water, soils and vegetation, in affected areas

Development of early warning systems for food security and drought forecasting 63 68 17

The objective of the Operational Program on Sustainable Land Management is to mitigate the causes and negative impacts of land degradation on the structure and functional integrity of ecosystems through sustainable land management practices as a contribution to improving people's livelihoods and economic well being,

The project fosters community led approaches, training, capacity building, interaction of landowners and farmers, and sustainable and dryland indigenous management practices.

(5) Regional Training Center on Sustainable Land Management

In the future, the GEF considers the country partnerships at the national level to be the best way to achieve results in sustainable land management.

The United Nations University (UNU) has undertaken collaborative research and a capacity building programme on sustainable land management in drylands, with emphasis on international sharing of experience.

The new operational program 15 (OP 15) Sustainable Land Management describes the strategic guidance for GEF supported initiatives, which have to monitor the impact on the ecosystem health and sustainable livelihoods based on agricultural and forest activities.

In addition, two full projects on improving sustainable management and capacity building, including finalization of NAPs, have been admitted to the pipeline.

With the declaration of 2006 as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification, action is required at all levels to promote political engagement, advocacy and awareness raising for sustainable land management in the context of the Convention.

Within the framework of the rehabilitation of degraded lands, including integrated water resources management, UNESCO is working on a new interregional project, Sustainable Management of Marginal Drylands (SUMAMAD) , which will benefit north African and Asian countries.

In addition to the medium sized project that supported the preparation of national reports in Africa mentioned in section A above, the secretariat has been involved, among others, in the formulation of the following projects that have been prepared for submission to the GEF

NAPs must be supported as an evolving process which should gradually contribute to the mainstreaming of sustainable land and water management into the PRSPs and or national development strategies.

In its report, the UNEP laid stress on the holding of regional training workshops, with a view to helping the countries to take better advantage of the approaches of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) regarding sustainable land management.

Financing sustainable forest management

Some participants referred to the leading role for the FAO in this respect need for establishing an effective financial mechanism for the implementation of sustainable forest management promote a study of the financial consequences of the different modalities.

IFAD will contribute with the preparation of analytical case studies and the latest innovative approaches to sustainable land management in workshops planned for February 2005 in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and Cameroon.

Criteria and indicators of sustainable forest management

It also appealed for an increase in the level of resources allocated to sustainable land management during the fourth replenishment of the Trust Fund.

It also manages scientific and technical communication and networking, provision of training and scholarships. It supports the development of approaches and methodologies for synergistic implementation, and liaises with the international scientific community.

Progress towards sustainable forest management

(a) To promote sustainable management of tropical timber producing forests, taking into account the contribution of non timber forest products and ecological services to sustainable forest management and

(e) Achieving sustainable forest management also depends on good governance at all levels

(c) Maintenance of Great Britain's biodiversity through encouraging mixed cropping and continued active agricultural land management.

These factors can make unsustainable practices more profitable than sustainable forest management.

(c) Articulating the concept of sustainable forest management more clearly

use ODA as a leverage for investments from private sources secure ODA for human and institutional capacity building

The September 2005 Millennium Review Summit should underline the global magnitude of the issue of SLM and combating desertification in the context of Millennium Development Goal 7 (environmental sustainability) and Millennium Development Goal 1 (eradication of extreme poverty and hunger).

Cooperation between the secretariat and the scientific community in Germany has involved universities and specific institutes that work on desertification control, land degradation and sustainable land management.

The coherence between the objective of the GEF Operational Program on Sustainable Land Management and the objective of the UNCCD is recognized as a basis for mutually beneficial collaboration.

Support to partnership building at the national level assisted the country Parties involved in the operationalization and mainstreaming of their NAPs and thus contributed to strengthened resource mobilization.

A compendium of existing benchmarking approaches for sustainable land management and environment information systems should assist African countries in establishing guidelines and selecting the basis on which standardization of benchmarks could be most helpful to the implementation process.

Understanding of the concept of sustainable forest management has continued to evolve since 1992.

(a) Renewing the commitment to make global progress towards sustainable forest management.

In that respect, we have taken steps to ensure the sustainable management of the environment.

(b) Providing a supportive environment for countries in order to help them achieve sustainable forest management

There are possibilities for two track approaches there is need for a more detailed elaboration of each of the options to provide an appropriate basis for decision making and for better understanding of the merits of the different options linking options to preferred objectives, functions and targets has yet to be achieved all options will require the establishment of an effective financial mechanism for the implementation of sustainable forest management.

In fact, a central feature of all crises is a sense of urgency, and in many cases urgency becomes the most compelling crises characteristic.

Developing and implementing criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management. Criteria and indicators play a key role in the shaping of a common vision of what constitutes sustainable forest management and in measuring and monitoring progress.

It was reported that efforts to achieve greater coherence are not facilitated by the fact that cooperation agencies often act outside the logical framework of support to the NAP, although greater coherence could more easily be achieved by integrating sustainable land management within NAP frameworks.