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In his welcoming note to delegates from the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, Christian Mersmann, Managing Director of the Global Mechanism explained that one of the ways the GM is implementing the UNCCD’s 10-year Strategy is by strengthening its South-to-South cooperation programme piloted in North and West Africa (SolArid), extending it to other regions.
Scope|acp is the GM’s component of a broader European Commission (EC) programme that covers all ACP countries and all Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs), with a special focus on the synergies between Conventions.
Thanks to the support of the EC, the GM is now able to offer its services in the Caribbean and the Pacific.
The South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and the Caribbean Community Secretariat (CARICOM) will be closely involved. The EC’s country offices and UNDP/LDC-SIDS will also play a major part in the implementation phase. For the GM, working directly with donors and in regional settings is a major breakthrough that will greatly assist its operations at country and regional level.
The overall objective of scopa|acp is to improve the environmental sustainability and land management of participating countries in accordance with Millennium Development Goal N° 7 – to ensure the environmental sustainability - and with the international commitments made at the national level in terms of UNCCD implementation. Scope|acp therefore addresses the crucial crosscutting issues surrounding combating desertification through capacity-building and knowledge management activities in order to mobilize new and additional resources for UNCCD.
In practice, the GM fosters South-to-South cooperation to mobilize southern resources to the benefit of the South by building capacity around issues close to the heart of those involved such as: empowerment of local communities; decentralized cooperation, eco-tourism; migration, adaptation to climate change, giving special emphasis to the participation of more vulnerable groups such as women or youth. This is essential for an effective approach when it comes to developing integrated financing strategies (IFSs) leading to national investment frameworks for SLM.
By fine-tuning its capacity-building training programme on how to develop such strategies (Designing Integrated Financing Strategies or DIFS) to the needs of other realities, drawing on its successful DIFS training experiences in Africa and elsewhere, and on the lessons learned in two years of programme implementation, that scope|acp will develop IFSs in the Caribbean and the Pacific.
For more information:
Mr Youssef Brahimi, Programme Coordinator, North Africa & South-to-South Cooperation
Tel. +39 06 5459 2584
y.brahimi (at) global-mechanism.org
Ms Ines Chaâlala, Junior Programme Officer, North Africa & South-to-South Cooperation
Tel. +39 06 5459 2548
i.chaalala (at) global-mechanism.org
Read more about Designing Integrated Financing Strategies
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GM launches its South-to-South Cooperation Programme on Land and Environment for African, Caribbean and the Pacific Countries
4 November, 2008
Scope|acp is the GM’s component of a broader European Commission (EC) programme that covers all ACP countries and all Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs), with a special focus on the synergies between Conventions.
Thanks to the support of the EC, the GM is now able to offer its services in the Caribbean and the Pacific.
The South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and the Caribbean Community Secretariat (CARICOM) will be closely involved. The EC’s country offices and UNDP/LDC-SIDS will also play a major part in the implementation phase. For the GM, working directly with donors and in regional settings is a major breakthrough that will greatly assist its operations at country and regional level.
The overall objective of scopa|acp is to improve the environmental sustainability and land management of participating countries in accordance with Millennium Development Goal N° 7 – to ensure the environmental sustainability - and with the international commitments made at the national level in terms of UNCCD implementation. Scope|acp therefore addresses the crucial crosscutting issues surrounding combating desertification through capacity-building and knowledge management activities in order to mobilize new and additional resources for UNCCD.
In practice, the GM fosters South-to-South cooperation to mobilize southern resources to the benefit of the South by building capacity around issues close to the heart of those involved such as: empowerment of local communities; decentralized cooperation, eco-tourism; migration, adaptation to climate change, giving special emphasis to the participation of more vulnerable groups such as women or youth. This is essential for an effective approach when it comes to developing integrated financing strategies (IFSs) leading to national investment frameworks for SLM.
By fine-tuning its capacity-building training programme on how to develop such strategies (Designing Integrated Financing Strategies or DIFS) to the needs of other realities, drawing on its successful DIFS training experiences in Africa and elsewhere, and on the lessons learned in two years of programme implementation, that scope|acp will develop IFSs in the Caribbean and the Pacific.
For more information:
Mr Youssef Brahimi, Programme Coordinator, North Africa & South-to-South Cooperation
Tel. +39 06 5459 2584
y.brahimi (at) global-mechanism.org
Ms Ines Chaâlala, Junior Programme Officer, North Africa & South-to-South Cooperation
Tel. +39 06 5459 2548
i.chaalala (at) global-mechanism.org
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Read more about SolArid, the GM's South-to-South cooperation programme