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Harnessing the financing potential of the UNCCD and CBD

22 June, 2010

The current economic downturn calls for concerted attempts in the development arena to put increasingly limited financial resources to ever better effect. Nowhere are there more ample opportunities for resource efficiency than in the Rio Conventions,...

Milestone in NAP alignment in Central and Eastern Europe

16 June, 2010

The 10 Year Strategic Plan and Framework to Enhance the Implementation of the Convention (2008-2018) outlined a new vision for the UNCCD and raised the pressing question of how to ensure that countries’ National Action Programmes (NAPs) - the...

IFS process launched in Eritrea

24 February, 2010

At the invitation of the Government of Eritrea, and with the objective of boosting ongoing cooperation in mobilizing resources for sustainable land management (SLM), the integrated financing strategy (IFS) process was launched in Asmara during the...

Innovative financing mechanisms: exploring synergies with the CBD

8 February, 2010

Country Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) recently called for an assessment on innovative financial mechanisms, in order to develop and discuss policy options during the next COP in October. The CBD Secretariat has acted...

GM contributes to the UNCCD global capacity building initiative on reporting

28 December, 2009

Decision 13 of the 9th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP9) set new procedures to improve the quality and format of reports to be submitted to COPs. In response to this decision, the GM is collaborating with the UNCCD secretariat, UNEP/GEF...

Sharing knowledge on financing integrated dryland management

19 November, 2009

The Global Mechanism (GM) is actively contributing to the design and implementation of an internationally-recognized Masters Course on integrated dryland management. The MSc, launched this month, focuses on enhancing the capacity of developing...

Land resources underpin national economies

13 October, 2009

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the GM signed a MoU at a side-event during COP 9, with the aim of stepping up their joint coordination of national assessments in the LAC region on the socio-economic benefits of...

Generating sustainable finance for SLM

30 September, 2009

An independent article has recently been published by Simone Quatrini, Coordinator of the Policy and Investment Analysis programme of the GM. The article pinpoints unsustainable consumption and production patterns among the principle root causes for...

IFAD grant for second phase of designing integrated financing strategies approved

29 September, 2009

The GM and its host organization, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), have entered into the second phase of collaboration on the Programme for Designing Integrated Financing Strategies for UNCCD Implementation in Selected...

The GM and the way ahead

25 September, 2009

The GM’s approach and its country level activities were the subject of a dynamic discussion between GM staff and UNCCD country Parties during the GM corporate side event on the margins of COP 9 on September 22 in Buenos Aires.   Opening...