TerrAfrica and partners review progress and decisive action leading to strategic investment frameworks

On the fringes of CRIC7,TerrAfrica partners organized a side event that gave participants the opportunity to review progress and actions undertaken at the subregional and country levels to implement TerrAfrica.

 

TerrAfrica is the regional sustainable land management (SLM) initiative for Sub-Saharan Africa. In reviewing the platform’s Activity Lines (AL), in particular Knowledge Management and coalition building, partners stressed the need for all stakeholders to enhance coordination both at the donor and the inter-ministerial level. Prominent issues discussed were the need to boost the country ownership processes and to link TerrAfrica strategies to national development frameworks.

 

Ethiopia’s National Focal Point, Mr Ababu Anange, made a presentation on the country process that had led to the formulation of the Ethiopian Strategic Investment Framework (ESIF), in which he recognized the importance of donor commitment and national coordination mechanisms that need to be supported by strong political will at country, federal, and district levels.

 

Mali also presented its Country Strategic Investment Framework (CSIF) that is strongly rooted in the country’s Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) and Rural Development Plan (RDP).

 

In reviewing the implementation process for the two CSIFs, speakers highlighted that regardless of the country concerned, the actual roll-out strategy needs to:

The Global Mechanism has played a key role in the development of the CSIF in Ethiopia, helping the formulation of the resource mobilization strategy, and is one of the funding members of the TerrAfrica initiative since its creation in 2004.

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