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Overview and update What it is and What it is not The Problem Analysis Conditions for Success

Terr Africa Enabling and Implementing the Scaling Up of Sustainable Land Management 7-8 September 2005 Johannesburg, South Africa. Overview and update What it is and What it is not The Problem Analysis Conditions for Success Major Steps so Far. What is TerrAfrica?.

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Overview and update What it is and What it is not The Problem Analysis Conditions for Success

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  1. TerrAfricaEnabling and Implementing the Scaling Up of Sustainable Land Management7-8 September 2005Johannesburg, South Africa • Overview and update • What it is and What it is not • The Problem Analysis • Conditions for Success • Major Steps so Far

  2. What is TerrAfrica? TerrAfrica is designed as a partnership between sub-Saharan African countries, donor countries and agencies, civil society and the research communitywith the collective goal of scaling up the mainstreaming and financing of effective and efficient country-driven sustainable land management approaches (SLM).

  3. What TerrAfrica is not? TerrAfrica is not a project, a unilateral World Bank program or a new fund. It is not to replace existing efforts but to enable scale up and increase in efficiency.

  4. Need Progress to promote… Agenda: Preventing and reversing land degradation and supporting implementation of the goals set under the UNCCD and the CAADP Improved Land Management towards SLM 2 But… 1 3 Support falls short of stakeholder’s expectations (confirmed perceptions result in multiple calls for action) WHY? Bottlenecks and Disconnects* 4 Current business model does not take enough account of critical bottlenecks to implementing SLM. Analysis increasingly reveals the complexity of bottlenecks is growing as is the disconnect between the supporting mechanisms (policy dialogue, financing instruments…) and the multiple calls for action. • Institutional and sectoral Knowledge and technology dissemination • Policy • Delivery mechanisms for implementation • Financing 5 • TerrAfrica: A multi-partner platform informed by an analytical approach and an action oriented coalition built upon three inter-related programmatic activity lines (AL). • AL 1: Building coalitions and partnership at global and regional levels • AL 2: Enhancing knowledge management, including generation at global and regional levels • AL 3: Developing programmatic mainstreaming and investments at country and sub-regional levels Provides a collective vehicle for addressing disconnects and bottlenecks resulting in unlocking of financial and non financial resources allowing for…

  5. Conditions for Success • Partner ownership and driveness • Broad-based participation including civil society and local stakeholders. • Transparency and accountability • Subsidiarity based on partners’ comparative advantage • Measurable and sustainable performance and results • Unlocking Resources • Country level (domestic and international) • TLF and pooling • Programmatic use of GEF support • Co- and Parallel financing

  6. Major Steps so Far • Framing workshop held in Paris, June 2004 concluded the need for a new and more collaborative “business model” to support SLM investments • Following 12 months efforts focused on consolidating and formalizing the partnership • Defining an agreed upon governance structure • Developing strategy and joint business planning framework • Establishing as World Bank Global Partnership Program • GEF SIP approved for pipeline entry • Follow up consultations to finalize partnership structure and planning prior to planned launch in October at the 7th COP of the UNCCD • Side event and consultations held with partners at UNCCD CRIC in Bonn, May 2005 • Consultation with agencies and donors, Rome, June 2005 • Working Group to finalize key documents established • Consultations with African partners in Johannesburg, Sep 2005 • First meeting of Executive Committee planned September 2005

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