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Delegates to CRIC-1 met in morning and afternoon sessions to begin the "wrap up" sessions for the Africa and Asia regions.

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.

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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