The Global Mechanism

Display # 5101520253050100All Cambodia: supporting the design of bankable projects 22 February 2012 With the successful completion of the National Forum on Cambodia’s National Action Plan (NAP) to Combat Desertification and its Integrated Financing Strategy (IFS), on 31 January 2012 in Siem Reap, the stakeholders can now look forward to moving into the implementation phase. Well attended by a broad range of Government stakeholders, including the Ministries of Trade; Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry; Environment; Water; several non-governmental organizations (NGOs), research institutes; the United Nations Development Programme ... Read more Learning by Doing: Sharing national processes on SLM in West Africa 17 February 2012 Creating an enabling environment for increasing investments in Sustainable Land Management (SLM) is often a difficult and lengthy process that clashes with the lack of political commitment at the country level. Country Strategic Investment Frameworks (CSIFs) are government-owned processes that have been launched in the past years in several countries of Africa, including Ethiopia, Uganda, Ghana, and others under the guidance of the TerrAfrica initiative, a strategic partnership aiming to provide a collective response to desertificati... Read more IFS: a tool to strengthen synergies between land and forest issues 15 February 2012 Most countries with low forest cover and small island developing states are located in arid, semi-arid and dry zones. In Africa for instance, with the exception of the Central African sub-region with its Congo Basin Forest, all other sub-regions have large areas of low forest cover, while dry forests account for a further 18% of land areas. In these zones, forest and land share the same constraints: they are seldom among the top priorities of strategies and development programs and channel insufficient resources for the implementatio... Read more Cross-sector consensus on coordinated approach to SLM in Tanzania 14 February 2012 Tanzanian experts have unanimously acknowledged that land degradation is one of the main constraints to sustainable development in the country. Given the scale of the problem, they are of the opinion that no individual agency or single government ministry is in the position to tackle it alone. These stakeholders are now calling for a strong coordination mechanism to be set in place to facilitate information exchange, in view of the finalization and implementation phases of Tanzania’s integrated financing strategy (IFS) and the in... Read more LAC and the GM Moving Forward in UNCCD Implementation 09 February 2012 During the eighteenth meeting of the Forum of Ministers of Environment of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) that took place from 30 January to 3 February 2012 in Quito, Ecuador, the Global Mechanism (GM) and the UNCCD Secretariat were requested to introduce an implementation plan for the Regional Financing Strategy (RFS) for LAC. The RFS is a mechanism established in 2010 with a view to increasing resource mobilization for funding initiatives that help overcome desertification, land degradation and drought (DLDD) in the LAC Regio... Read more Aid coordination and alignment in West Africa: myth or reality? 07 February 2012 With the target date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) less than four years away, the Busan Forum for Effective Development Cooperation, (Busan, South Korea, November 2011), agreed to modernize, deepen and broaden co-operation, involving state and non­state actors in shaping a development agenda that had previously been largely dominated by a narrower group of development actors. The Forum established a new global development partnership embracing diversity and recognizing the distinct roles that all stakeholders in co-operation c... Read more Focus on resilience: Aid for Trade is the key 06 February 2012 Vulnerable - yet potentially the main driving force to achieving food security world-wide - small-scale farmers are back on the international agenda. The economic viability of these new rural entrepreneurs in agriculture, forest and water management can be best prepared for marketing opportunities through Aide for Trade (AfT). The Global Mechanism (GM), a long-standing partner of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and a proponent of enhanced market access and trade for small scale farmers, held a ‘world café' on increasing AfT inv... Read more Strengthening South-South Cooperation through the Great Green Wall Initiative 03 February 2012 "Algeria is keen to use the opportunity of the Great Green Wall Initiative to strengthen its cooperation with Sahelian countries’’, Algerian representatives said during a joint mission of the Global Mechanism (GM) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) that took place in Algiers from 16 to 19 January 2012. The Algerian Rural Development Strategy – also called the “Rural Renewal”, launched in 2007 to promote social, environmental and economic progress in the country – draws... Read more Local authorities play bigger role in South-South cooperation for SLM 05 January 2012 Local authorities are playing an increasingly important role in combatting desertification and land degradation in developing countries. Decentralization of decision making and budget allocation make it essential to tap this area when attempting to increase investments and financial flows for sustainable land management (SLM).   The GM is an ardent supporter of South-to-South cooperation through SolArid - its South-South cooperation programme - that brings together the countries of the Sahel and the Sahara with the aim of highlight... Read more The ASEAN Foundation: exploring new partnerships in Southeast Asia 19 December 2011 The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foundation’s mandate is to promote mutual assistance, equitable economic development, and the alleviation of poverty, with the aim of helping to bring about shared prosperity and a sustainable future to all ASEAN countries. On 12 December 2012, Dr Makarim Wibisono, Executive Director of the ASEAN Foundation, warmly received Mr Siva Thampi, Asian Regional Financial Expert of the Global Mechanism (GM), at the ASEAN Foundation in Jakarta, Indonesia, for an initial meeting to explore t... Read more   «  Start   Prev   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   Next   End  » Page 1 of 22