lebanon: desertification and nap alignment in lebanon

Desertification and NAP Alignment in Lebanon

Hussein NasrallahNFP- Lebanon

Dubai18-20 June 2014

Background

• Lebanon signed the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and Drought (UNCCD) in September 1995,

• Ratified it in December 1995 and the Convention entered into force on December 26,1996.

• The Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) was designated the Focal Point institution for the UNCCD.

• Lebanon developed its National Action Programme (NAP) for the UNCCD in a participatory process including all relevant and active stakeholders representing all sectors, public, private, civil society and academia.

• This process was supported by the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and the Drylands Development Centre of the United Nations Development Programme (DDC- UNDP), and it was endorsed by the Minister of Agriculture in June 2003.

Integrated Financing Strategy

• Lebanon has developed the Integrated Financing Strategy with a financial support from GM in the year 2005.

• The resource mobilization strategy aims at supporting the mobilization of resources for sustainable land management (SLM), which includes combating desertification.

Reporting

• Lebanon submitted all National reports on time.

• The final report almost finished and will be submitted before the deadline.

NAP Alignment

• Lebanon has not started the NAP alignment process since the financial resources was not available yet, whereas a project proposal has been prepared, signed and sent to GEF for financing the process.

• The fund was approved 2 days ago and the NAP alignment will start very soon and to be finished by the year 2015.

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