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The implementation of the GM’s Consolidated Strategy and Enhanced Approach (CSEA) is supported by sound, interdisciplinary and comprehensive policy reviews and analyses of strategic issues influencing SLM financing and UNCCD implementation in specific national and sub/regional contexts. These analyses contribute to generating a better understanding of the barriers, opportunities, drivers and incentives for investing in SLM and engaging relevant stakeholders.
A major barrier to reaching target policy and public opinion audiences is not the availability of the knowledge itself, but the complex way in which it is presented and disseminated. Conscious of this communication challenge, the GM publishes accessible summaries of policy reviews and analyses in the form of thematic papers that are issued on a regular basis and proactively distributed to policy makers and others involved in relevant policy processes. These thematic papers are also published as a collection, called the GM Policy Series. As a tool of its Communication Strategy, the Series is a major resource for the GM’s advocacy, donor relations, and partnership-building initiatives, as well as for FIELD and SLM mainstreaming programmes.
FIELD Factsheet (Publication)
Policy and Investment Analysis: Unveiling Opportunities for Sustainable Land Management
The setting
The economic linkages between land degradation, poverty, and other development objectives, especially in Africa, are shaped by the surrounding policy environment. The GM therefore considers policy analysis an essential prerequisite for successfully mainstreaming Sustainable Land Management (SLM) into national development frameworks and for developing effective integrated financing strategies.The implementation of the GM’s Consolidated Strategy and Enhanced Approach (CSEA) is supported by sound, interdisciplinary and comprehensive policy reviews and analyses of strategic issues influencing SLM financing and UNCCD implementation in specific national and sub/regional contexts. These analyses contribute to generating a better understanding of the barriers, opportunities, drivers and incentives for investing in SLM and engaging relevant stakeholders.
The policy series
A major barrier to reaching target policy and public opinion audiences is not the availability of the knowledge itself, but the complex way in which it is presented and disseminated. Conscious of this communication challenge, the GM publishes accessible summaries of policy reviews and analyses in the form of thematic papers that are issued on a regular basis and proactively distributed to policy makers and others involved in relevant policy processes. These thematic papers are also published as a collection, called the GM Policy Series. As a tool of its Communication Strategy, the Series is a major resource for the GM’s advocacy, donor relations, and partnership-building initiatives, as well as for FIELD and SLM mainstreaming programmes. Objectives
The Policy Series aims to contribute to:
- Generating a better understanding of policy issues and options: by periodically disseminating the findings of specific thematic surveys, policy reviews and analyses related to SLM financing, the Series contributes to building awareness of relevant policy issues and options, and stimulates dialogue, action and innovation;
- Promoting policy coherence and increased development effectiveness: by highlighting key dimensions of the poverty–environment nexus and other developmental issues, opportunities and trade-offs linked to land degradation, the Series illustrates policies providing economic incentives or disincentives for sustainably managing fragile lands;
- Generating capacity to access available funding instruments: the Series facilitates the transfer of synthesized information and knowledge on effective policies, strategies and modalities of accessing sources of finance for the implementation of SLM programmes and initiatives; and
- Mainstreaming SLM into overarching development frameworks: the Series contributes to the identification of opportunities for integrating UNCCD objectives and priorities into relevant policy frameworks at national, regional and international levels, with a view to increasing domestic and foreign, public and private investments in SLM activities.
Activities
Themes currently being considered for review as part of the GM Policy Series include:
- the benefits of addressing land degradation and costs of inaction;
- ODA policies, aid allocation priorities, financing modalities and delivery mechanisms;
- national expenditure frameworks and budget allocation policies in affected countries;
- innovative financial mechanisms such as compensation for ecosystem services, emissions trading, micro-finance and remittances;.
- private sector engagement in public-private partnerships, markets and trade in response to socio-environmental responsibility policies and principles;
- cross-cutting impacts of forestry, energy, water, agriculture and other sectoral policies; and
- barriers and opportunities resulting from national legislation and international agreements.
For further information, please contact:
Mr Simone Quatrini, Coordinator, Policy & Investment Analysis
Tel. +39 06 5459 2154
s.quatrini (at) ifad.org
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