Creating an enabling environment for increasing investments in Sustainable Land Management (SLM) is often a difficult and lengthy process that clashes with the lack of political commitment at the country level.
Country Strategic Investment Frameworks (CSIFs) are government-owned processes that have been launched in the past years in several countries of Africa, including Ethiopia, Uganda, Ghana, and others under the guidance of the TerrAfrica initiative, a strategic partnership aiming to provide a collective response to desertification and land degradation in Sub-Saharan Africa, by up-scaling country-driven SLM.
To allow involved stakeholders to capitalize on existing processes in the Region and to share experiences and knowledge related to the CSIF, the Global Mechanism (GM) is organizing a pilot study mission of country officials from Burkina Faso and Senegal to Mali, where the CSIF was launched in 2010.
The objectives of this mission are to:
- Understand the TerrAfrica process and the status of CSIF in Mali;
- Review the process that established the technical SLM team in Mali (composition, duties etc);
- Analyze the initiatives integrating trade with SLM;
- Identify obstacles and boundaries to the elaboration and implementation of the SLM roadmap in Mali;
- Assess strengths, weaknesses and bottlenecks of SLM-related resource mobilization processes;
- Review the status of SLM in Senegal and Burkina Faso with a view to engage in their own CSIFs.
It is anticipated that a roadmap will be developed at the end of the mission, to accompany Burkina Faso and Senegal towards their own CSIF processes, and to allow both countries to capitalize upon existing experiences in a neighbouring country.
Participants will have the opportunity to share experiences and information on their country-specific context, whilst being inspired by the process in Mali. They will assess the challenges they must face to setup specific actions and pave the way to the actual implementation of the roadmap.
This pilot study will help shape GM’s engagement modalities, as well as, assess how past experiences have worked in some countries.
For more information:
Mr Sven Walter, Programme Coordinator, West and Central Africa
Tel. +39 06 5459 2150
s.walter (at) global-mechanism.org
Mr Salif Toure, Trade and Regional Advisor, West and Central Africa
s.toure (at) global-mechanism.org
