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the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
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the First Session of the Committee for the Review of the
Implementation of the Convention (CRIC1)
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First Session of the Committee for the Review
of
the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC1)
Rome,
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11 - 22 November 2002
Monday
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Delegates to CRIC-1 met in morning and afternoon sessions to begin the
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African "wrap-up"
During the discussion on the African "wrap-up", delegates raised
several matters, including:
improving consultative mechanism at the national level;
learning and applying lessons from other countries' consultative
processes;
building capacity to access GEF funding, designing GEF eligible
projects, and developing investment projects that are complementary to
the incremental funding of the GEF;
cooperating in joint evaluation measures and the development of
country profiles;
supporting NGO involvement, capacity-building, the use of
traditional knowledge, and addressing the roles of women and youth;
developing effective indicators to measure progress in public
participation;
developing and evaluating pilot activities in relation to incentives
and disincentives;
addressing the lack of national level
coordination mechanisms;
focusing on legal frameworks at the national level;
strengthening the role of the CST in justifying resource
allocations;
prioritizing desertification within the national ministries of
finance;
avoiding duplication between resource mobilization activities of the CCD Secretariat and the GM;
evaluating the GM's mandate at COP-6;
making more effective use of the CST's recommendations;
defining the review of the work of the CST at COP-6,
incorporating technical expert reviews and addressing the role of
civil society experts in the CST;
advocating the use of diversified sources of renewable energy; and
focusing on the development of socioeconomic indicators. |
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Asian "wrap-up"
Following the "wrap-up" of Asian presentations, participants
raised several issues, including:
identifying how land tenure systems can facilitate the inclusion of
women in combating desertification;
increasing awareness of the CCD in government bodies;
streamlining the bilateral system of providing support to affected
developing country Parties;
recognizing Pacific small island States in the Asian Annex to the CCD;
addressing the practical field experience, difficulties and
opportunities in the implementation of TPNs;
evaluating the performance of TPNs;
sharing experiences and lessons from domestic resource mobilization
initiatives;
developing training programmes to provide qualified staff for CCD
implementation at the regional and national levels;
creating a balance between process, planning and results in relation
to economic and environmental and between socioeconomic and
biophysical issues;
the broadening of TPN-4 to promote water use efficiency for
non-agricultural purposes;
the formulation of an expert group on ecosystem oriented land-use
control;
addressing the impacts of NAPs on human health and food security
issues; and
increasing cooperation with the health sector, by focusing on
adaptation and priority prevention measures in high risk countries. |
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Links
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Text
of the convention and useful information
CCD information on
desertification and the Convention
Official
Documents of the First Session of the CRIC
Press release on the CRIC
CRIC1 - Tentative
Schedule
Adoption of the Agenda and Organization of Work
Arrangements for the First Session of the Committee for the Review of the
Implementation of the Convention
Linkages
desertification issues page and
COP-5
summary report.
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