1. 5th Plenary meeting, China, October 2010
Feedback on bilateral
NGO sessions
by Both ENDS and CARI
October 12th
, 2010

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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”
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3. Policy brief topics
• 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”
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3. Policy brief topics
• 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: ?
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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

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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: mjb@bothends.org
Patrice: cariassociation@yahoo.fr