Soil Leadership Academy and WOCAT

Mainstreaming SLM into relevant policy and development frameworks

… to reach LDN

World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies

Soil Leadership Academy and WOCATHanspeter Liniger, Nina Lauterburg

WOCAT Secretariat CDE, BernCancun 10.03.2015

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• food security

Food Security Biodiversity

Desertification

Climate Change

Water Scarcity

• all 3 UN Conventions: Desertification, Climate Change and Biodiversity

• solving water conflicts (scarcity) and water security

Recognizing that SLM is the key for …

Mainstreaming SLM into relevant

policy and development

frameworks!

WOCAT–LADA–DESIRE MethodologyWOCAT–LADA–DESIRE Methodology

NATIONAL / SUB-NATIONAL

Level

DECENTRALIZED DECISION MAKING

Level

operational strategy for SLM mainstreaming and scaling out

Assessments :

• Land use / Land Management

• Promising SLM Technology Groups & Approaches

• Identified key regions

LOCAL LANDSCAPE Level

Assessments & Selection:

• Land use / Land Management

• SLM Technologies and Approaches

• Livelihoods• Economic analysis

• Prioritized landscapes

Implementation of SLM best

practices

SLM Territorial Planning

SLM Territorial Planning

SLM

scaling out

Partnerships

Knowledge Management

Capacity Building

SLM mainstreaming through

Policies

Strategies /Action Plans

Territorial Planning and Budgets

Incentives

Financing Mechanisms

Knowledge-based SLM decision support

FAO-WOCAT GEF DS-SLM project

spreading SLM access and use of

knowledge documenting benefits

of SLM on-site (food and

water security, …) off-site!

DRR: floods, droughts CC adaptation

capacity building for KM&DS (Knowledge Management & Decision Support)

regional & national initiatives and reaching land users

Vision: further support …

WOCAT’s role in SLA

- Standardized and harmonized tools

- Knowledge products- Knowledge – based &

stakeholder involved decision making

Complexity of SLM or…

- simplify complexity of SLM?

- one fits all solution?

simplify access to / use of complexity clarify principles of

SLM facilitate capacity

building