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Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) participating in Drynet invited the GM to their mid-term meeting in Cape Town in July 2008 to review progress in strengthening national networks and mainstreaming UNCCD issues in development planning.
Drynet aims to build or strengthen civil society networks in 17 countries to promote inclusion of dryland degradation and poverty issues in countries’ strategic development frameworks. Fourteen organizations from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America are involved in the Drynet. Activities are centred on dialogue with government and exchange between CSOs, collaboration on common policy papers, joint-format newsletters, and the documentation of best practices for the management of dry and degrading lands as a way to build evidence for investments by public and private land users.
The GM is providing financial and technical support to Drynet partners and the meeting provided an opportunity to exchange experiences and pursue the development of joint methodologies and tools to learn lessons and strengthen each others’ actions. The GM promotes the participation of civil society in the design and implementation of integrated country investment frameworks and programmes for UNCCD on the basis that CSOs mobilize knowledge, human and financial resources.
During the meeting participants received training on how to design training sessions, with a view to developing CSO capacity in their respective countries that respond to country and regional-specific needs. They also discussed challenges and strategized on their common approach for the next 18 months. Coordinating the project is a challenge, but Drynet partners are finding their way and moving the process forward at the global level and in their respective countries.
Ms Paule Herodote, Advisor, Civil Society
Tel. +39 06 5459 2760
p.herodote (at) global-mechanism.org
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GM joins Drynet partners in South Africa to review progress
14 August, 2008
Drynet aims to build or strengthen civil society networks in 17 countries to promote inclusion of dryland degradation and poverty issues in countries’ strategic development frameworks. Fourteen organizations from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America are involved in the Drynet. Activities are centred on dialogue with government and exchange between CSOs, collaboration on common policy papers, joint-format newsletters, and the documentation of best practices for the management of dry and degrading lands as a way to build evidence for investments by public and private land users.
The GM is providing financial and technical support to Drynet partners and the meeting provided an opportunity to exchange experiences and pursue the development of joint methodologies and tools to learn lessons and strengthen each others’ actions. The GM promotes the participation of civil society in the design and implementation of integrated country investment frameworks and programmes for UNCCD on the basis that CSOs mobilize knowledge, human and financial resources.
During the meeting participants received training on how to design training sessions, with a view to developing CSO capacity in their respective countries that respond to country and regional-specific needs. They also discussed challenges and strategized on their common approach for the next 18 months. Coordinating the project is a challenge, but Drynet partners are finding their way and moving the process forward at the global level and in their respective countries.
Ms Paule Herodote, Advisor, Civil Society
Tel. +39 06 5459 2760
p.herodote (at) global-mechanism.org
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