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“The Global Mechanism attaches great importance to its partnership with the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) because of its potential to position land as a vital resource to achieving poverty alleviation, promoting wealth creation and sustainable human, economic and social development [...]” said the Managing Director of the Global Mechanism, in his address to the CPLP’s Regional Steering Committee of the Cooperation Project (TCP/INT/3201) - a programme designed 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.
The meeting, held in Maputo, Mozambique, from 27 to 29 April, brought together all the CPLP countries, the CPLP secretariat and its partners notably the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO). This crucial meeting culminated in the validation of the Cooperation Programme and its various components.
The GM and the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), have provided technical, financial and strategic advisory services to the CPLP partnership since its creation in 2005. The strategic partnership between the GM and FAO has been instrumental in positioning the CPLP Initiative as 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 GM’s proposals for future support to the CPLP announced at the meeting included playing a leadership role in supporting the development of IFSs within the context of this programme. The GM has already successfully co-organized a knowledge exchange workshop on developing integrated financing strategy (DIFS), in Lisbon, in June 2009. GM-supported initiatives such as the Financial Information Engine on Land Degradation (FIELD); the South-to-South co-operation programme SolArid (North and West Africa); and the Observatory on Sustainable Land Management Investments currently under development provide vehicles through which to share lessons and experiences on finance and issues that bear on broader implementation of the UNCCD. The CPLP programme can tap opportunities though such initiatives.
Following this successful meeting, the GM is looking forward to building stronger linkages between the CPLP programme and the GM’s strategic initiatives, particularly country level programmes.
For more information:
Ms Elsie Attafuah, Programme Officer, East and Southern Africa
Tel. +39 06 5459 2577
e.attafuah (at) global-mechanism.org
Download the full statement by the Managing Director of the GM (pdf, English, 69kb)
Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries: partnership confirmed
1 June, 2010
The meeting, held in Maputo, Mozambique, from 27 to 29 April, brought together all the CPLP countries, the CPLP secretariat and its partners notably the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO). This crucial meeting culminated in the validation of the Cooperation Programme and its various components.
The GM and the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), have provided technical, financial and strategic advisory services to the CPLP partnership since its creation in 2005. The strategic partnership between the GM and FAO has been instrumental in positioning the CPLP Initiative as 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 GM’s proposals for future support to the CPLP announced at the meeting included playing a leadership role in supporting the development of IFSs within the context of this programme. The GM has already successfully co-organized a knowledge exchange workshop on developing integrated financing strategy (DIFS), in Lisbon, in June 2009. GM-supported initiatives such as the Financial Information Engine on Land Degradation (FIELD); the South-to-South co-operation programme SolArid (North and West Africa); and the Observatory on Sustainable Land Management Investments currently under development provide vehicles through which to share lessons and experiences on finance and issues that bear on broader implementation of the UNCCD. The CPLP programme can tap opportunities though such initiatives.
Following this successful meeting, the GM is looking forward to building stronger linkages between the CPLP programme and the GM’s strategic initiatives, particularly country level programmes.
For more information:
Ms Elsie Attafuah, Programme Officer, East and Southern Africa
Tel. +39 06 5459 2577
e.attafuah (at) global-mechanism.org
Download the full statement by the Managing Director of the GM (pdf, English, 69kb)Related Links
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