1. Focal Area and Cross Cutting Strategies – Land Degradation GEF Expanded Constituency Workshop July 6 – 9, 2011 Dakar, Senegal

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

3. 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 GEF-5 Priorities

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 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)

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 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. Diversify the financial resource base (PES, carbon-financing, etc.)

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 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

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

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