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More dialogue, better understanding – enhanced discussions between UNCCD, trade and market stakeholders on the constraints and opportunities for SLM financing under current trade regimes and on potential instruments to make regimes, trade-related processes and financing mechanisms more supportive of SLM.
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Market Access & Trade Programme: Innovative Resources for Sustainable Land Management
What?
The Global Mechanism (GM) conceived the Market Access & Trade (MAT) strategic programme to support its regional programmes for developing integrated financing strategies (IFS) and exploring innovative financing opportunities for sustainable land management (SLM).
Why?
Through the MAT Programme, the GM aims to sharpen its focus at the country level and increase its capacity to mobilize resources for UNCCD implementation in the context of the new financial architecture. The Programme draws on trade and market-related issues to engage new stakeholders in United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) implementation, leverage innovative sources for SLM financing and establish links with overarching development plans and budgeting processes.How?
Using mainstreaming, dialogue and partnership-building as its main instruments, the MAT Programme envisages coherent and coordinated interventions on three levels:
at the international level, it partners with major trade institutions to develop methodological approaches and tools for monitoring and assessing the impacts of trade activities on SLM, analyses policies, and promotes dialogue on the impact of existing trade regimes on SLM and on the development of markets for sustainably traded dryland products;
at the national level, it provides technical backstopping to identify investment opportunities, to integrate SLM concerns into trade processes and related financing mechanisms, and to develop coherent incentive frameworks to encourage policy-makers and institutions to foster an enabling environment for increased investment in SLM through trade;
at the local level, it supports small projects to identify the type of incentives and enabling conditions that encourage private actors and local communities to reinvest the profits generated through market activities in sustainable land and natural resource use.
Expected outcomes
More dialogue, better understanding – enhanced discussions between UNCCD, trade and market stakeholders on the constraints and opportunities for SLM financing under current trade regimes and on potential instruments to make regimes, trade-related processes and financing mechanisms more supportive of SLM.Informed policies, increased investment – practical tools and coherent incentive frameworks for channelling investments towards production practices, productive sectors and business models that encourage the sustainable use of natural resources, with enhanced participation of the private sector and local communities.
New partnerships, new resources – technical knowledge and capacities, greater outreach and multiplier effects through systematic collaboration with trade institutions, related trade development programmes, and synergistic Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs), particularly at the national level.
For more information:
Ms Eleonora Canigiani
Trade & Markets Strategy Officer
Tel.: +39 06 5459 2734
email: e.canigiani (at) global-mechanism.org
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