Decision Support for

Mainstreaming and Scaling out

of Sustainable Land Management GCP/GLO/337/GFF

DS-SLM

Stefan Schlingloff

Land and Water Division (FAO)

• GEF grant: USD 6 116 730

~64% country implementation

+ Cofinancing: USD 38 097 347

• Duration: 3 years (2015-2018)

• GEF Agency = FAO

• Executing Agencies:

• FAO (Land and Water Division, (Sub-)Regional Offices, FAOR)

• WOCAT (Center for Development and Environment, Univ. of Bern)

• National Lead Agencies in 15 countries:

Argentina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bangladesh, China, Colombia,

Ecuador, Lesoto, Morocco, Nigeria, Panamá, Philippines,

Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Uzbekistan

DS-SLM

Panamá (Arco Seco)

Objetivos globales

Global Environmental Objective:

contribute to combating desertification, land

degradation and drought (DLDD) worldwide through

scaling up sustainable land management best practices

with evidence based and informed decision making

Global Development Objective:

increase the provision of ecosystem goods and services

and enhance food security in countries and regions

affected by DLDD through the promotion of SLM,

integrated management, and efficiency in the use of

natural resources

DS- SLM

… delivered through 3 interlinked components:

1. national and local decision-support on combating

DLDD and promoting mainstreaming and scaling up

of SLM best practices

2. global DLDD and SLM knowledge management

and decision-support platform

3. monitoring and evaluation and dissemination of

project results

DS- SLM

Outcome 1.1

• SLM best practices mainstreamed into national and/or

sub-national agricultural and environmental plans and

investment frameworks, policies and programs to address

DLDD in 15 countries.

Indicators and targets:

• A scoring system for (sub-)national ‘mainstreaming’ will be

developed with the countries during project start up

Expected Outcomes

Outcome 1.2

• Up-scaling of SLM best practices catalysed in countries

through targeted actions on the ground and strategic

decision making from local to national levels.

Indicators and targets: • At least 500 ha under SLM demonstration at the end of project year, up-scaling to

at least 500 000 ha under SLM by project end

• 5 million ha SLM mainstreamed in plans for implementation during 10 years after

project end;

• increase in vegetation cover (10% cropland, 25% pasture land, x% forest land)

• xx ha of productive land with increased (agro-)biodiversity (# species; share of

annual to perennial species; area of forest/ razing land under regeneration)

• xx% carbon sequestration increase by LUS (Land Use System)

• 10% increase in productivity by LUS

• 10% increase in population with improved access to water in demonstration areas

Expected Outcomes

Outcome 2.1

• Knowledge management and decision-support system

and tools used to support evidence-based strategy

formulation at national level for promoting SLM and

contributing to global processes to address DLDD

Indicators and targets:

• 15 countries enabled to assess land area under SLM and

the benefits generated

• 15 countries able to report (quantitatively and qualitatively)

on progress in addressing DDLD through demonstrating,

upscaling and mainstreaming SLM

• 45 institutions in participating country using the federated

knowledge platform

Expected Outcomes

http://www.fao.org/nr/lada/ • Methodology and Results

• Mapping Land Use Systems at

Global and Regional level for

Land Degradation Assessment

Analysis

• Questionnaire for Mapping Land

Degradation and SLM (QM)

• Manual for Local Level

Assessment of Land Degradation

and SLM, Part 1+2

LADA WOCAT Toolkit

Assessment of LD and SLM with

local experts (multi-disciplinary)

• Participatory Expert assessment workshops using LADA-WOCAT mapping method (QM) and expert knowledge to analyze:

- Trends in the Land Use System (LUS)

- LD types, extent, degree, rate, indirect and direct causes

- SLM objectives, measures, extent, effectiveness, trends

- LD and SLM impacts on ESS

- future options (expert recommendations)

Comparison of degradation

vs conservation, UG

Effectiveness of existing SLM

technologies and measures

addressing biological degradation

Severity of

Biological degradation

-The effectiveness of SLM practices that address biological degradation is low in vast areas

- SLM practices are not so related to severity of biological degradation

These maps can be used to select areas for targeted interventions

SLM Technologies and Approaches

Decision Support Framework

for SLM mainstreaming and scaling out

River basin

District

Watershed

Catchment

Farm

Farmers Community Technical National or River Basin

Herders Local authorities Sectors Authority

Scaling up requires collaboration among multiple actors / levels

better data and information on land and water resources

better governance, planning, management

International partners

• Global Soil Partnership (GSP) and Regional soil Partnership

• ISRIC (soil information & mapping; soil databases, research, training, network)

• UNCCD CST-SKBP (knowledge brokering system) (SLM BP reporting; access to

& use of information on DLDD and Global Mechanism of the UNCCD

• WOCAT consortium partners (CGIAR system wide CRPs; GIZ, SDC, ICARDA,

ICIMOD, CIAT and CIAT Soils)

• Mountain Partnership and Mountain Societies Research Institute

• UNEP Economic Assessment of DLDD (ELD)

Actors – Stakeholders In countries

• Lead Ministries/Departments with other

Ministries/Departments

• NGOs and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)

• Local Land User Organizations

• Provincial, Regional and Local Governments in each country

• National academic and educational institutions

• Regional and sub-regional partners

• Great Green Wall Initiative and EU/ ACP project Action against desertification for

sustainable livelihoods and resilient and productive landscapes (FAO with AUC,

GM/ UNCCD, Walloon region Belgium & Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew)

• TerrAfrica/ NEPAD/World Bank

• CACILM: Central Asian Countries Initiative for Land Management

• NGOs and Networks

• DRYNET

• CARI and Both Ends - coordinating agencies

• DesertNet International

• Landscape, People, Food and Nature Initiative (LPFN) led by EcoAgriculture

Partners

Actors – Stakeholders (2)

Model International

experts

input

output

2. Land use systems

Survey populations

local experts

QM National

experts

1. Data bases collection

GLOBAL (SUB) NATIONAL

LOCAL

3. Expert analysis and modeling

4. Land degradation assessment process/trends status/ response

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DS-SLM

Thank you