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5th Plenary meeting, China, October 2010

Feedback on bilateral NGO sessions by Both ENDS and CARI

October 12th, 2010


Feedback presentation NGOs

• Outcomes UNCCD reporting process and DESIRE input

• General observations on policy work in the study sites

• Topics for the policy briefs for each study site



1. UNCCD reporting process

• Letters to SST and NFP have had different impacts yet but have started a relationship

• In some rare cases the NFP was just changed or did not respond

• In many cases the contact was welcome but the new webbased format was not yet well known and did not allow further contribution

• In some cases more direct exchange was established by phone or letter

• In some cases there was a real contribution from DESIRE to the national report process ( still ongoing), and mutual participation in workshops or national committee

• As a conclusion : the contact should be kept on long term, there is an opportunity to interact if the deadline is postponed (mid november ?) . DESIRE has made its job as a scientific consortium



2. General observations on policy work

A range of relations with decision-makers:• National government official in DESIRE team• DESIRE team involved in local decision-

making or management committees• DESIRE team directly responding to

questions of national government



2. General observations on policy work

• DESIRE team participating in drafting development plans and programmes

• Good relations with national government• Good relations with local/regional govt• Occasional contacts



3. Policy brief topics

• Botswana: “Highlights on the energy options and implications for Boteti area ”• China: “The DESIRE methodology in steps for a policy audience”. • Mexico:“ Designing SLM and combating land degradation

programmes needs to address economic benefits for local stakeholders;”

• Russia: “Cut water subsidies from 90% to 40%, and use the remaining

50% for farmers to buy new technologies for irrigation”




• Turkey: “Stimulating soil preservation can combat poverty ”

• Morocco: "Get national level SLM policies implemented by praising the method of local stakeholder involvement”

• Tunisia: “Support rangeland resting as a land management strategy”

• Italy: “Land degradation and decreasing food production: CAP

subsidies on the wrong track”




• Spain: “Local solutions adapted to the local

context are also solutions to global SLM problems”

• Portugal: “Unexpected impacts from tested land use

management strategies related to forest fires”• Chile: “Well-informed decision-making leads to changing priorities

for investing SLM resources”• Cape Verde: “Stakeholder involvement contributing to SLM: where the

methodology can make the difference” • Greece: ?



Some comments…• The issues mentioned are very different

according to SS but are all more or less related to processes rather than techniques

• Most of them are not strictly based on the scientific results or findings but on the lessons learned in practice during the DESIRE process

• DESIRE seems to have built more legitimacy in the SS for expressing a wider point of vue on local SLM

• The economic aspects cannot be avoided and are directly or indirectly adressed


Next steps

• Workshop on writing policy messages in China

• Joint development of policy brief with each site: preferably ready for CRIC in February

• Publication: all policy briefs with analysis


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Thank you!

Marie José: [email protected]

Patrice: [email protected]

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