INAUGURAL SESSION

COMMITTEE ON FORESTRY

WORKING GROUP ON DRYLAND FORESTS AND AGROSILVOPASTORAL SYSTEMS

ROME, 16-17 JULY 2019

GEF-7 SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT IMPACT PROGRAM ON

DRYLAND SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPES (SFM-DSL)

11 IP target countries:

Angola

Burkina Faso

Namibia

Botswana

Zimbabwe

Malawi

Tanzania

Kenya

Mozambique

KazakhstanMongolia

GEF-7 Sustainable Forest Management Impact Program on Dryland Sustainable Landscapes (SFM-DSL)

Key Interventions:

1) Integrated landscape

management with particular

focus on sustainable forest

management and restoration,

rangelands, and livestock

production

2) The promotion of diversified

agro-ecological food

production systems in drylands

3) The creation of an enabling

environment to support the

two objectives above.

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The program will take a landscape approach, contributing to Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) process building upon existing networks, new partnerships, as well as regional, national and global platforms.

• Effectiveness and impact• Leakage avoidance• Regional scaling out to non-IP countries• Addressing transboundary issues

Impact programs seek region-wide transformational change

GEF-7 Sustainable Forest Management Impact Program on Dryland Sustainable Landscapes (SFM-DSL)

Global Environmental Benefits• Sustainable Land Management• Biodiversity• Climate Change Mitigation

Socioeconomic Co-benefits• Ecosystem goods and services.• Reduced vulnerability.• Reduced levels of migration and

conflict

Barriers to be addressed

2. Inadequate investment in technical and financial capacities

3. Piecemeal approaches to combating land degradation across dryland regions

1. Sector-specific, top down approaches to dryland issues

Dryland landscapes are sustainably managed and restored:• Integrated landscape

management• Diversified agro-ecological

food production systems

Threats to drylands• Agricultural expansion• Unsustainable agriculture

and grazing• Fires• Tree felling

Impact Program Theory of change

1. Conditions for innovative and integrated approachesto dryland management:• Intersectoral coordination and collaboration• Land planning, decision-making• Strengthened participation•Governance, access and tenure• Transboundary collaboration

2. Technical and financial capacities for scaling up• Strengthened capacities for generation, communication and

application of practices• Strengthened value chains• Strengthened financing mechanisms

3. Programme-wide knowledge and coordination

Global Coordination Project:• Regional/global KM• Transboundary prioritisation of investments• Transboundary coordination and collaboration• Programme-wide communication and outreach• Interactions with global players

Child Projects:• Project specific M&E and KM• Project-specific communication and outreach

Sector-specific, top down approaches to dryland issues, at policy level

Inadequate technical and financial capacities for managing drylands sustainably

Piecemeal approaches to combating land degradation across dryland regions

The Miombo – a regional ecosystem requiring a programmatic transboundary vision and collaboration

Business as usual

Regionally integrated approach addressing social, demographic, economic and biophysical processes at landscape and transboundary levels:

• Effectiveness and impact

• Leakage avoidance• Regional scaling out• Addressing

transboundary issues

The IP difference

The Impact Program

COFO Drylands Working Group objective for the Impact Program:

In order to:

• Enhance overall coherence and effectiveness

• Identify common management challenges/drivers

• Prioritise challenges and actions

• Strengthen regional dialogue on shared challenges and synergies

• Harmonise monitoring

• Support knowledge management (knowledge products, knowledge sharing)

• Support outreach and engagement

• Promote South-South Cooperation

• Support regional/global scaling out

• Translate results into policy

Component 1. Conditions for innovative and integrated approaches

Component 2. Technical and financial capacities for scaling up

Component 3. Programme-wide knowledge and coordination

Global Coordination Project

Child Projects

SFM-DSL Impact Program:

- Prioritisation across regions- Collaboration across regions- Learning and adapting across

regions- Outreach across regions

Advise and guide SFM-DSL implementation:

Structure

Child Projects

Global Coordination Project

IP Steering Committee

Impact Program

Regional platforms

Dryland Working Group

COFO

GEF Secretariat

Regional groupings of child projects

FAO

POINTS FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE WORKING GROUP

◉ Advise and guide the SFM-DSL implementation to enhance overall coherence of the programme;

◉ Strengthen dialogue with relevant regional actors;

◉ Facilitate the development of knowledge products, outreach and engagement at national and regional levels, and knowledge sharing of the results and lessons learned from SFM-DSL; and

◉ Enhance South-South Cooperation, including with countries and regions that are not directly involved in the SFM-DSL.

THANK YOU