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Land & Livelihoods
Sustainable land management supports the delivery of ecosystem services – including the conservation, sustainable use, access to and benefit sharing from biodiversity – which improve human well-being and contribute to poverty alleviation.
Our team delivers scientific and technical services to:
- Enhance information and capacity for improved biodiversity conservation and pro-poor ecosystem management
- Facilitate reciprocal biodiversity-poverty/development mainstreaming
- Support policy processes and enhance the evidence base for appropriate biodiversity, land and livelihood-related policies
- Promote individual, professional and institutional capacity, especially in lower capacity regions
- Identify needs and develop suitable tools and methods for monitoring and assessment including indicators development and piloting.
Our recent projects include:
- Support to the UNCDD Performance Review and Assessment of the Implementation System (PRAIS)
- Piloting the UNCCD Impact Indicators with 11 countries
- Preparing UNEP’s programme document in support of the Great Green Wall of the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative
- Delivering the Environment Management Group (EMG) Global Drylands: A UN system wide response , for which UNEP-WCMC provided technical coordination
- The IIED-WCMC Biodiversity-Poverty Partnership
- The IFAD-UNEP Smallholders and Environment report
- Support to the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Biodiversity for Development programme
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PRAIS
The Performance Review and Assessment of Implementation System (PRAIS) project supports the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and its Parties in building capacity for effective monitoring and assessment of the progress made in achieving the poverty reduction and environmental sustainability objectives of the Convention and its 10-year Strategic Plan and Framework to enhance the implementation of the Convention (2008-2018).
MoreUNEP support to the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative
The Great Green Wall for the Sahara and Sahel Initiative (GGWSSI) has been conceived as a model to help in the fight against desertification, ensure ecosystem restoration and development of arid and semi-arid zones. UNEP-WCMC was commissioned to coordinate the preparation, drafting and finalization of UNEP’s programme document and approach in support of the GGWSSI.
MoreIIED-WCMC Biodiversity-Poverty Partnership
UNEP - WCMC is working with the International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED) to support efforts at national, regional and international level to ensure that biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction goals reinforce each other and achieve a win-win-situation.
MorePiloting the UNCCD Impact Indicators with 11 countries
The UNCCD Secretariat has launched the final report of the UNCCD Impact Indicators Pilot study.
UNEP-WCMC supported the UNCCD Secretariat to pilot the indicators by working with 11 countries. Together we assessed the feasibility of reporting on a diverse set of land- and livelihood-related indicators, including poverty, land cover status, malnutrition and biodiversity.
Global Drylands: A UN system-wide response
Coordinated by UNEP’s World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) and prepared by 18 UN agencies through the UN’s Environment Management Group (EMG), involving over 60 development and environment researchers and practitioners, the report sets out a common vision and agenda for UN agencies to step up their efforts to protect and revitalise dryland, and improve the economic and social well being of drylands communities through a positive development and investment approach.
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