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Regional Steering Committee Meeting of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries' Technical Cooperation Project
27 April, 2010 - 29 April, 2010
Maputo, Mozambique
South-to-South cooperation and triangular partnerships between countries in the North and the South are an excellent way of harnessing knowledge and promoting the exchange of experiences between different countries, with a view to strengthening country capacities to mobilize resources for sustainable land management (SLM).
The Global Mechanism (GM) attaches great importance to such partnerships because of their potential to enhance sustainable development in general, and the implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), in particular.
This is the rationale behind the GM’s support for the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries’ (CPLP) partnership platform since its creation in 2005 and why it will be attending the Regional Steering Committee Meeting of the CPLP Technical Cooperation Project (TCP/INT/3201) to be held in Maputo, Mozambique from 27 to 29 April 2010.
The TCP is designed precisely to support CPLP countries in formulating a South-to-South/North-to-South Cooperation Programme for the promotion of SLM in the framework of the implementation of the UNCCD. This specific meeting will enable the countries and partners to discuss and finalize the CPLP Cooperation Programme and validate its various components.
The scope of the platform includes the exchange of experiences on financing strategies and the GM’s support to date has included co-organizing a knowledge exchange workshop on developing integrated financing strategy (DIFS), in Lisbon, in June 2009. It is anticipated that the lessons learned in the CPLP context will feed into the broader context of the GM’s South-to-South cooperation programme, SolArid.
The GM’s participation in the Maputo meeting has the four-fold objective of:
- reiterating our political commitment to the CPLP initiative as a whole and to the Affected countries in addressing UNCCD issues related to finance;
- clearly defining our strategic role in the future implementation of the programme;
- ensuring effective coordination and alignment between the CPLP framework as a whole and our support in terms of developing integrated financial strategies at country level; and
- building stronger linkages between the CPLP Initiative and our strategic initiatives -including those on climate change and land, the Financial Information Engine on Land Degradation (FIELD), and GM’s observatory on SLM.
Information on the outcomes of the meeting will be published here.
For more information:
Ms Elsie Attafuah, Programme Officer, East and Southern Africa
Tel. +39 06 5459 2577
e.attafuah (at) global-mechanism.org
Tel. +39 06 5459 2577
e.attafuah (at) global-mechanism.org