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GM Country Engagement Strategy for TerrAfrica
19 April, 2007
The GM has prepared a Country Engagement Strategy (CES) for TerrAfrica – a collective and inclusive partnership that aims to address land degradation by scaling up harmonized support for effective and efficient country-driven Sustainable Land Management (SLM) practices in sub-Saharan African countries.
The CES, which was endorsed by the TerrAfrica Executive Committee, in September 2006 (Cape Town, South Africa), aims to:
- promote a common understanding of the principles of and modalities for partners’ engagement in a given country
- establish the modalities for in-country collaboration between partners on SLM
- improve coordination between partners, in order to avoid duplication and high transaction costs.
The CES has been developed as a broad guide to how the engagement process should be conducted. It is supported by an operational Country SLM Investment Framework (CSIF), which is tailored to country-specific situations. It is anticipated that other operational instruments will be developed to complement the CES, addressing, for instance, SLM mainstreaming and public expenditure reviews.
The CES highlights the TerrAfrica partners’ principles of engagement at the country level, the forms this engagement takes and the engagement process itself. It also focuses on identifying stakeholders and suggests how they make be engaged in TerrAfrica processes.
The CES is based on the premise that an effective engagement process will improve the quality of relations between the various national stakeholders and TerrAfrica partners.
At the country level, it is also expected that an effective engagement process will lead to improved coordination among partners and programmes, and among national stakeholders.
For more information:
Mr Kwame Awere-Gyekye, Programme Coordinator, East & Southern Africa
Tel. +39 065459 2199
k.awere (at) ifad.org
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