Land Degradation Focal Area

Portfolio Monitoring and Assessment in the GEF Secretariat

Based on GEF-5 LD Focal Area Strategy and Tracking Tool

Why Portfolio Monitoring and Assessment?

• Demonstrate GEF’s catalytic role as Financial Mechanism

• Monitor Global Environment Benefits from GEF investments in production systems

• Report effectively and reliably on GEF financing for implementation of the UNCCD by Parties, including the 10-year Strategy

• Enhance portfolio level management and accountability for the LD Focal Area

Outcomes and Impacts

• Enhanced enabling environment for SLM

• Improved agricultural and rangeland management

• Reduced GHG emissions from agriculture and deforestation

• Increased carbon stocks in agro-ecosystems

Outcomes and Impacts (contd.)

• Improved forest landscape management in arid, semi-arid and sub-humid zones

• Increased adoption of good land management practices in landscape

• Increased capacities of Countries to fulfill obligations under the UNCCD

Objectives Targets

1. Agro-ecosystemsservices flows

Sustainable management of 120 million hectares (agriculture and rangelands)

2. Forest ecosystem service flows

Sustainable management of 300,000 hectares (forest production landscapes)

3. Integrated management of wider landscapes

Integrated management of 150 million hectares(mixed land uses)

4. Adaptive project management for UNCCD and GEF

25% of all LD projects address priorities identified in UNCCD 10-year Strategy

50% of LD projects take up emerging knowledge from targeted research

Results-Based Framework

Land Degradation Focal Area

Portfolio Monitoring and Assessment Tool

(PMAT)

What is the PMAT?

The PMAT is a tool -

• to capture the necessary data and information during project design and implementation

• based on indicators and targets in the LD focal area RBM framework

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What transformational impacts will the project seek to achieve?- Ex Ante assessment

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What will the project investments deliver directly based on LDFA objectives? (Annually)

How will the project investments contribute to advancing the LDFA and implementation of the UNCCD?

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Tools and Data Needs

• Context – What is the global nature and distribution of GEF projects relative to– Drylands?– Land degradation in drylands

(desertification and deforestation)?

– Affected populations in drylands?• Rural population• Poor population

– Land use for agriculture, rangeland, forestry?

– Ecosystem services in drylands?• Carbon• Hydrological services (watersheds)

• Biodiversity

• Impacts – What are the GEF projects addressing or delivering with respect to– Area affected by land

degradation?– People affected by land

degradation?– Global environmental benefits?

• Area under SLM best practices• Area under increased vegetative

cover• Area under integrated land

management practices• Quantity of Carbon secured

through SLM in agriculture, rangeland, and forest landscapes

• Quantity of Carbon sequesteredthrough SLM in degraded areas

GEF Global Projects

1. Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands(LADA) - FAO/UNEP

2. Ensuring Impacts from Sustainable Land Management - Development of a Global Indicator System (KM:Land) – UNDP, UNU-INWEH

3. Carbon Benefits Project: Monitoring, Modeling, and Measurement – UNEP, WWF, ISRIC, ICRAF, University of Michigan, Colorado State University, and others

PMAT Data• Aggregated and synthesized at Portfolio level to

assess overall trends in – Agro-ecologies targeted– Financial leverage (including across sectors)– Potential global environmental and development

benefits (i.e. impacts)

• Aggregated and synthesized at portfolio level to– Report annually on progress toward achieving outcomes

and objectives– Identify and disseminate best practices and important

lessons– Enhance adaptive management and learning in the focal

area