First multi-stakeholder workshop to develop Jordan's Integrated Financing Strategy

The GM, Jordan’s Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation (MOPIC) and the Ministry of Environment (MOE), co-organized a multi-stakeholder workshop in Amman, on 26 September 2007, to initiate the consultative process for the development and implementation of an Integrated Financial Strategy (IFS) for Jordan.

 

Jordan’s IFS is being developed as a tool to address institutional, socio-economic, and financial constraints that are hindering full UNCCD implementation in the country.  It is rooted in the recognition by all stakeholders that land degradation has major socio-economic impacts on the Jordanian economy as a whole and on the livelihoods of rural and Bedouin communities in particular.

 

The consultative process stems from the conviction that the engagement of all stakeholders in a long-term planning and implementation process is a prerequisite for success.

 

65 participants from ministries, development agencies, civil society and the private sector came together to discuss the GM’s approach to resource mobilization, national coordination processes, progress to date and next steps.

 

The workshop marks the beginning of a process intended to generate strategic and technical recommendations to alleviate the impact of desertification, through actions leading to the mobilization and channelling of substantial financial and other resources to support UNCCD implementation.

 

The GM confirmed its continued commitment to Jordan in fully supporting the development of the IFS and in providing support for the implementation phase.