The document summarizes activities from the 5th Plenary meeting of DESIRE in China in October 2010. It discusses DESIRE contributions to the UNCCD process by building links and participating in strategic meetings. DESIRE also set up a global policy influencing strategy focused on UNCCD, climate change, and migration. Specific products included fact sheets and policy briefs from study sites. Planned future activities included testing the fact sheets, preparing for COP10 and CRIC9, collaborating with other organizations, and publishing policy papers.

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Activities done by the
NGOs
Both ENDS and CARI
Oct 2009 - Oct 2010

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Fields of contribution
• Building the link to the UNCCD process
• Playing a part as DESIRE in some
strategic international meetings
• Setting up a (pragmatic and on available
ressources based) global policy
influencing strategy
• Contributing to some specific DESIRE
products
• Planned coming activities

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Follow up COP 9/2009
decisions on national
reporting process
 Reminder
During COP9 in Buenos Aires
many decisions taken in order
to improve the review of the
implementation of the
Convention and the national
reports to be provided by each
Parties for next CRIC9 in
February 2011.
National reports have to be
submit in a new format to
the UNCCD secretariat in
order to be examined at CRIC
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Action taken and process
March, 16th
• message to ST and SSC about the
decisions taken about the new reporting
process and the opportunity for DESIRE
• invite the SSC to participate to the UNCCD
national reporting process in sharing their
information with the national Focal Point of
their country.
July, 14th
• 2 nd message on what DESIRE SSC can
contribute to the national report
• circulating draft of a message for the
national Focal Point
August, 31st
A personal message is sent to all the
national FP of the SS countries with
references to DESIRE and the SSC in the
country
Building the link to the UNCCD process

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Trends Comments
• The new webbased
procedure for reporting
seems to be difficult to
adopt for the NFP
• The link with scientists is
appreciated and the
feedback is good
• Nevertheless it is difficult
to value according to the
new and not yet well
mastered system
Building the link to the UNCCD process
•Collaboration existing and
improved between SST and
NFP in Botswana, Portugal,
Cape Verde, Greece …
• Good feedback of the Focal
Point about the proposition of
participation of DESIRE SST to
the reporting process in
Mexico, Italy, Chile, …
• No feedback from SST or
NFP of Spain, Morocco,
Tunisia, China, and Turkey.

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Playing a part as DESIRE in some
strategic international meetings
Where ?
• no international event
organized by the UNCCD
in the period
• DESURVEY meeting in
Rome “Advanced scientific
tools for Desertification
Policy” – 29,30 September
2010, Rome, Italy.
www.desurvey.net/conference/
What ?
• Nevertheless continuous
informal dialogue with many
institutional bodies involved in
the UNCCD preparing CRIC9
and COP 10
• The meeting was a good
opportunity to interview
scientists and policy makers
about their respective
expectations (see next slides)

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DeSurvey conference Rome
Aims:
• See science-policy
interface in action
• Interview policy
makers on current
dilemmas and issues
• Interview participants
on science-policy
“gap”
• What can we learn
for future
collaboration?

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DeSurvey conference Rome
Current dilemmas and
issues:
• Climate change
responses in drylands
• Where to invest
resources?
• Cost of in-action
• What transformation can
investment in drylands
bring?
• Best practices and
innovations in SLM
• Indicators for risk and
for monitoring/assesing
•Input for LANDCON
presentation
•Material for a paper
on science-policy
interface

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Where ?
• 28/31 march
Montpellier/France
GCARD global meeting
on science and agriculture
http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/gcard
• 29 may/03 june
Davos/Switzerland
Global Risk Forum
http://idrc.info/pages_new.php/IDRC-
Davos-2010/
What ?
• Contribution to the debate
based on the work of DESIRE and
dissemination of documents –
feedback on opportunities for
dissemination
• Opportunity to give a
presentation in plenary on
desertification and in a special
session on land-degradation and
drought with the UNCCD
executive secretary, scientists
and representative of the private
sector
Playing a part as DESIRE in some
strategic international meetings

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The DESIRE global policy influencing
strategy
Clarifications within
DESIRE…
• Bringing issues related to
LD higher on the public
and political agenda
• Creating more clarity
how DESIRE can
contribute to policy
• Outline why decision
maker should be
informed and what is
hindering
• Clarify the role of the
DESIRE members at
different levels
Focus, range and scope
• Focused on 3 global
issues or debates :
(i)UNCCD global
process, (ii) climate
change, adapatation
and agriculture, (iii)
migration
• Description of when,
where and how DESIRE
can contribute to them

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• To feed the
thoughts for new
policies
• To highlight
unfavorable or
ineffective policies
• To give more power
to good but non-
effective policies
The DESIRE global policy influencing
strategy

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3 fact sheets are drafted
• Fact sheets advocating
for the DESIRE
approach to involve
stakeholders
• Designed for 3
different audiences:
policy makers, non-
DESIRE scientists and
land users
Contributing to policies and
drivers 1.31. deliverable
Contributing to some specific
DESIRE products
• Overview of relevant
policies reported on by
each study site
• Description of listed
policies
• Description of some
missing relevant policies
and processes

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What’s next ? Planned activities
• Testing the fact sheets
• Facilitating one policy
brief per SS
• CRIC9/Geneva/feb
2011 and
COP10/Korea/end
2011: preparation and
attendance
• story lines of
stakeholder
involvement in SS (with
INVOLVED?)
• Policy papers on
climate change and
agriculture (on its way),
and on migration
• Paper on science-policy
interface
• Comparison of results
DESIRE with 10 YSP
• Collaboration with
Drynet, INVOLVED,
WOCAT and others

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Marie José: mjb@bothends.org
Patrice: cariassociation@yahoo.fr
Thank you!