lebanon: desertification and nap alignment in lebanon
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Workshop on Alignment & implementation of National Action programmes with the UNCCD 10-year Strategy in the Arab Region League of Arab States (18- 20 June 2014), Dubai - UAE Lebanon: Hussein NasrallahTRANSCRIPT
Desertification and NAP Alignment in Lebanon
Hussein NasrallahNFP- Lebanon
Dubai18-20 June 2014
Background
• Lebanon signed the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and Drought (UNCCD) in September 1995,
• Ratified it in December 1995 and the Convention entered into force on December 26,1996.
• The Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) was designated the Focal Point institution for the UNCCD.
• Lebanon developed its National Action Programme (NAP) for the UNCCD in a participatory process including all relevant and active stakeholders representing all sectors, public, private, civil society and academia.
• This process was supported by the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and the Drylands Development Centre of the United Nations Development Programme (DDC- UNDP), and it was endorsed by the Minister of Agriculture in June 2003.
Integrated Financing Strategy
• Lebanon has developed the Integrated Financing Strategy with a financial support from GM in the year 2005.
• The resource mobilization strategy aims at supporting the mobilization of resources for sustainable land management (SLM), which includes combating desertification.
Reporting
• Lebanon submitted all National reports on time.
• The final report almost finished and will be submitted before the deadline.
NAP Alignment
• Lebanon has not started the NAP alignment process since the financial resources was not available yet, whereas a project proposal has been prepared, signed and sent to GEF for financing the process.
• The fund was approved 2 days ago and the NAP alignment will start very soon and to be finished by the year 2015.
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