How we do it
An IFS shapes the process whereby a country Party, supported by the GM and other partners analyses national priorities, development agendas (such as poverty reduction strategies), domestic budget allocation processes, international aid delivery mechanisms, and sources of international finance for example under climate change.
The IFS builds on the country’s UNCCD National Action Programme and policy processes and is anchored in the national institutional setting and relevant programme and budgetary cycles, with which it is fully aligned. While supporting the development of domestic, external and innovative sources of finance for the country concerned, the IFS also uncovers potential barriers to resource identification, allocation and disbursement.
While the GM works on finance, including monetaary and fiscal issues, partners such as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) the World Bank and bilateral agencies analyse the policy, legal, institutional and human resource environments that may hinder resource mobilization or programme execution.
By the end of the IFS process the country has developed the capacity and set the enabling environment to develop a full-fledged integrated investment framework (IIF) for SLM– as called for by the UNCCD’s 10-Year Strategy – to allocate adequate and predictable resource flows from traditional and emerging sources based on the common understanding of the importance of SLM for development and poverty reduction.