1. Focal Area and Cross Cutting Strategies – Land Degradation
GEF Expanded Constituency Workshop
Focal Area and Cross Cutting Strategies – Land Degradation
GEF Expanded Constituency Workshop
25 – 27 October 2011
Nairobi, Kenya

2. Land Degradation Focal Area Strategy (Combating Desertification and Deforestation)

3. GEF Expanded Constituency Workshop
GEF-5 Priorities
Expand LD portfolio 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)
Increase focus on production systems - agriculture rangelands, and forest landscapes

4. 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
Improved agriculture management and sustainable flow of services in agro-ecosystems
Increased investments in SLM

5. 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
Improved forest management and sustained flows of forest ecosystem services in drylands
Increased investments in SFM in dryland forest ecosystems

6. 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
Integrated landscape management practices adopted by local communities
Increased investments in integrated landscape management

7. 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

8. Global Environmental Benefits
Improved provision of agro-ecosystem and forest ecosystem goods and services.
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.

9. 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

10. Questions? Thank you