In this session the new WOCAT Network was launched. The new set-up and latest advancements, innovations and challenges were presented and WOCAT national network members talked about their involvement and perspectives in a panel. The Consortium Partners of WOCAT International were introduced and the launch was rounded up with an informal get-together.

1. Flyer
Hanspeter Liniger
Nina Lauterburg
WOCAT Secretariat CDE,
Bern
Cancun 11.03.2015
World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies

2. WOCAT so far:
New
set-up
2014
Initiated
in 1992
«Do you want to make a change?
Learn from those who made it»

3. Questionnaires on SLM
technologies, approaches, map
Documenting information from
and with land users
Documenting SLM knowledge at field level
Entering data in questionnaire
Entering data in database
Computer data entry form

4. 4
What?
How?
Where?
Costs?
Benefits?
Impacts?
Key for KM & DS: Standardized tools &
SLM technology
SLM approach
Harmonized products
> 500
> 250

5. Knowledge products for KM & DS
Books: all online in different languages
Global / Regional: Total: 4
National: Total 11 Maps
Degradation SLM

6.  books
 few videos
 tablet application prototype
 On-line database
 website: www.wocat.net
Knowledge sharing

7. Draft methodological framework:
‘Decision Support for Mainstreaming and Scaling-up of SLM’
Knowledge-based Decision Support
Framework

8. WOCAT network
DESIRE
LADA

9. UNCCD recognition:
‘primary recommended database for
reporting on SLM Best Practices’
agreement signed April 15 between:
UNCCD Secretariat
and
CDE WOCAT Secretariat
Achievement 2014: WOCAT network
… challenge and opportunity

10. WOCAT new set-up

11.  spreading SLM
 access and use of
knowledge
 documenting benefits of SLM
 on-site (food and water
security, …)
 off-site!
 DRR: floods, droughts
 CC adaptation
 capacity building for KM&DS
(Knowledge Management & Decision Support)
 regional & national initiatives
and reaching land users
Vision: further support …

12. Video: Regional and National WOCAT Initiatives

13. 13
World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
3rd UNCCD Scientific Conference
Special Panel with WOCAT Countries/network members
Cancun, Mexico, march 2015, 9-12
Abdoulaye Sambo Soumaila, GREAD/WOCAT Niger
WOCAT IN NIGER
Effective management of existing knowledge and efficient applying of support
decision tools for sustainable land management

14. 14
Content
A. WOCAT institutional organization in Niger.
B. Applying WOCAT support decision tools in Niger:
activities, regions and main results.
C. WOCAT in Niger: opportunities and vision.

15. 15
A. WOCAT institutional network in Niger?
NGO GREAD
(since 2004)
Public Administration/Government Institutions
MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT
MINISTRIES OF LIVESTOCK AND AGRICULTURE
SECTORAL STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
LOCAL RURAL POPULATIONS
ORGANIZATIONS OF FARMERS AND BREEDERS (Community Organizations)
LOCAL AUTHORITIES
Research
Institutions
Geography
Department/
FLSH/University of
Niamey
ICRISAT
INRAN
Development
Institutions
Projects/Programes:
PNEDD, CCA,
DNPGCA, etc.
National/international
NGO:
ADN, MASNAT, OSEA,
ACF Dakar, etc.
Bilateral/Multilateral
Development partners:
WB, UNDP, EU, France,
Germany, USA,

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B. Applying WOCAT tools: Where, What and Results.
AREA 1
AREA
2
Activities Results Observations
Data collection (QA, QT and QM)
Since 2011: Niamey, Tillabéri and
Tahoua Regions
42 approaches
256 technologies
3 QM documented
Partners: Food Crisis and Social
safety nets programs
Contribution to elaboration of the
book on SLM best practices in
SSR
Implementation of water and soil
conservation technologies and
approaches (projects/programs)
2011-2015 Niamey and Abalak
1 project at Niamey 2011-2012, 200
women supported, 3 kms of kori
protected, 36,000 us $ distributed
as income to women
3 projects at Abalak 2011-2015
300 ha of degraded land recovered
with watershed approach
Projects executed by local NGOs
and funded by World Food
Program, FAO, World Bank and
IFAD
Realization of studies on SLM
strategies in agropastoral region
2011-2015 Abalak, Tchintabaraden,
Abala
Land management scheme
“Schéma directeur d’aménagement
du territoire communal” for to
complete local development plan
In partnership with local
authorities (“Communes”)
Establishment of a monitoring system of
movements and spatial adaptation
strategies of transhumant herders in
Sahel
Abala, 2014
A document is available (French)
Test st of system had begin in
November 2014 and first evaluation
will occur june 2015
With ACF Dakar, AREN and
ICRISAT

17. WOCAT in Niger: opportunities and vision
OPPORTUNITIES
17
VISION
SHARING and IMPROVING knowledge on sustainable land management AT
LOCAL LEVEL are the main effective tools for improving the FERTILITY OF LAND
and LIVELIHOODS
NIGER GREAT GREEN
WALL PROGRAMME
NATIONAL RESILIENCE
PROGRAMME
MONITORING SYSTEM
OF MOVEMENTS AND
SPATIAL ADAPTATION
OF PASTORAL
POPULATIONS

18. THANK YOU
WHAT FUTURE?
WOCAT advocacy in Niger

19. WOCAT Implementation in
Argentina
Cancún, México, 11 de Marzo 2015

20. MONITORING LAND USE,
DEGRADATION & DESERTIFICATION
LADA Project

21. Institutionalization of WOCAT in
Argentina
 Official map of desertification was elaborated
with WOCAT methodology
 National Observatory of Land Degradation and
Desertification was adopted. Which promotes
and recommends WOCAT methodology
 Promoted the adoption of WOCAT
methodology and develop a degradation map
within each PAP. Building their own baseline of
a degradation map.

22. The main results ... (besides the maps!)
 During the implementation of WOCAT/LADA, a
group of interdisciplinary experts was created.
Which is the current National Advisory Group
on LD&D.
 The country has a data baseline for all
drylands
 Provide the data to inform the PRAIS the
amount of degraded hectares
 It is an easy to show politicians

23. For the future we would like…
 WOCAT used to evaluate the implementation
of SLM
 A WOCAT integrated and adapted forLAC
 WOCAT / LADA it would be the monitoring tool
for Minimum presuppose Law for Soil
Conservation

24. For the future we would like…..
 WOCAT used to assess implementation of
MST
 A WOCAT adapted to the LAC region.
 WOCAT / LADA and evaluation methodologies
to the Laws of minimum soil conservation
supoused
Thank you!
Vanina Pietragalla
vpietragalla@ambiente.gob.ar
Maria Laura Corso
mcorso@ambiente.gob.ar
SAyDS - Argentina

25. WOCAT: THE PHILIPPINE
EXPERIENCE AND
FUTURE PROSPECT
Samuel M. Contreras
Science and Technology Correspondent

26. Questions:
1. Where is WOCAT embedded in your country?
2. What differences has made WOCAT on the ground,
where did you use, what are the major results?
3. Future Opportunities/Vision in your Countries

27. 1. Where is WOCAT embedded in your country?
The Philippine Conservation Approaches and
Technologies (PHILCAT) - as institutional
mechanism with 18 Institutional Members
from NGAs, Senate Office, Academe and
State Colleges and Universities Professional
Org, and NGOs
- PHILCAT meets regularly on a Quarterly
basis
- Supports the implementation of
programs/projects on SWC including the
most recent project that adopt the WOCAT
tools (QA and QT)
- Supports national and international events
(e.g. WOCAT steering meeting, WOCAT-
ASOCON seminars, IYS observance etc.)

28. 2. What differences has made WOCAT on the ground,
where did you use, what are the major results?
 In using WOCAT KM standardized
tools and methodologies
– strengthened partnership among
national and local institutions (i.e.
thru the Philippine LADA project as
different agencies participated to
build the LUS Map of the Philippines
and to initially map LD hotspots:
inputs to prioritize areas/domain of
the Aligned NAP)
- collaboration with regional partners
i.e., transfer of knowledge and
capacity building with Chinese
experts providing assistance in the
implementation of the Philippine
LADA project 28
G. Schwilch

29. 2. What differences has made WOCAT on the ground,
where did you use, what are the major results?
 Secure local funds to document
SLM best practices in 5 priority
ecosystems: 1) Highland for HVC
with small holder –farmers; 2)
Highland with Corporate Farms;
3) Irrigated Rice Production
System; 4) Natural Resources
and Watersheds; 5) Small-islands
vulnerable to typhoons
 Tools for building awareness and
advocacies; opening stronger
collaboration among NGAs,
LGUs, private sector
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G. Schwilch
Source: Benguet State University
Source: Mt. Kitanglad Agri Dev. Cor.

30. 3. Future Opportunities/Vision in your Countries
 With the on-going development and
initiatives, we expect increasing
recognition of WOCAT at the national
and local levels
 SLM Knowledge products including
compendium of SLM Best Practices for
the 5 priority ecosystems (through the
on-going PHILCAT project) will be
available
 SLM is mainstreamed into the national
and local agricultural development plans
(National and Government Agencies)
 Broader adoption of SLM by the private
sector (SLM as component of Corporate
Farm Business Plan – Private Sector)
30
G. Schwilch
Source: Mt. Kitanglad Agri Dev. Cor.

31. Markus Giger
Sally Bunning
Yves Guinand
Bruno Schuler
Godert Van Lynden
Theib Oweis
David James Molden
Deborah Bossio
Heinz Beckedahl

32. ISRIC contribution to WOCAT

33. How do you see your role as International
Consortium Partner?
• ISRIC has been strongly involved in WOCAT management since the very
beginning, as a logical sequel to its role in the GLASOD map (1991) and will
continue in this role as Consortium partner;
• As a global Soil Information Centre ISRIC fully subscribes to the goal to expand
Sustainable Land Management and will support this endeavor with its available
soil and land expertise and products, such as the 1 km resolution SoilGrids,
a collection of updatable soil property and class maps of the world produced using
state-of-the-art geo-statistical methods;
• ISRIC will also (promote the) use of WOCAT in various applied projects, such as
currently in Green Water Credits or RECARE;
• We further like to contribute to the development of more user-friendly
WOCAT databases and (web/mobile)applications.

34. • ISRIC can make a difference to the countries involved in WOCAT by combining
the tools and products available in WOCAT with its own data and expertise
and by using this combined knowledge in applied projects in various
countries in close collaboration with other (WOCAT) partners;
• ISRIC can contribute to training activities on WOCAT, e.g. in its own Spring
School, and by further developing and/or harmonising educational materials;
• ISRIC’s international network is complementary to the WOCAT network and
might offer other relevant links to the institutions involved in WOCAT.
How can you make a difference for the countries?

35. Panel discussion:
- What are opportunities for the use of
WOCAT tools, products and the
network to spread SLM?
- How to rise awareness about the local
and global impacts of SLM?
- Is availability of SLM knowledge and its
use still a need and how to make it
easier?

36. What’s new?
e.g.
- Videos
- Database
- Tablet

38. Tablet application prototype

39. The way forward:
A consolidated joint effort needed for…
innovative user-attractive interactive tools and
knowledge products…
that help recognizing complexity of SLM but …
simplifying access to knowledge and …
its use in decision making
and spreading of SLM…
Strengthening..
capacity building and
partnership!!!  together
 win-win-win-…

40. 40
Partnership and Network
 take off

41. WOCAT still stands for
World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies:
Widely
Open
Caos /Collaboration
Termination
Approaching
Wonderfully
Organized
Collaboration / Consortium
Troubles / Transition
Appreciating
Till now: After the launch:

43. www.wocat.net
www.facebook.com/wocatnet
http://issuu.com/wocat
http://www.slideshare.net/wocat
https://vimeo.com/user12138600
https://www.youtube.com/user/WOCATEER1
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