1.
 Mainstreaming SLM into
relevant policy and
development frameworks
 … to reach LDN
World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies
Soil Leadership Academy
and WOCAT
Hanspeter Liniger, Nina Lauterburg
WOCAT Secretariat CDE, Bern
Cancun 10.03.2015

2.
2
• food security
Food Security Biodiversity
Desertification
Climate Change
Water Scarcity
• all 3 UN Conventions:
Desertification, Climate Change and Biodiversity
• solving water conflicts (scarcity) and water security
Recognizing that SLM is the key for …

3.
WOCAT–LADA–DESIRE MethodologyWOCAT–LADA–
DESIRE
Methodology
NATIONAL /
SUB-NATIONAL
Level
DECENTRALIZED
DECISION MAKING
Level
operational strategy
for SLM mainstreaming and scaling out
Assessments :
• Land use / Land
Management
• Promising SLM
Technology Groups
& Approaches
• Identified key
regions
LOCAL LANDSCAPE
Level
Assessments & Selection:
• Land use / Land Management
• SLM Technologies and
Approaches
• Livelihoods
• Economic analysis
• Prioritized landscapes
Implementation
of SLM best
practices
SLM
Territorial
Planning
SLM
Territorial
Planning
SLM
scaling out
Partnerships
Knowledge Management
Capacity Building
SLM mainstreaming through
 Policies
 Strategies /Action Plans
 Territorial Planning and
Budgets
 Incentives
 Financing Mechanisms
Knowledge-based SLM decision support
FAO-WOCAT GEF DS-SLM project

4.
 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 …

5.
WOCAT’s role in SLA
- Standardized and
harmonized tools
- Knowledge products
- Knowledge – based &
stakeholder involved
decision making

6.
Complexity of SLM or…
- simplify complexity of SLM?
- one fits all solution?
 simplify access to / use of
complexity
 clarify principles of SLM
 facilitate capacity building