The goal of this program is to enable sustainable land management in extensive rangelands. It will do so by helping to remove policy and capacity obstacles and to identify innovative practical ways in which sustainable drylands ecosystem management through livestock mobility can be made both viable and attractive. It will establish the necessary pre-conditions at national and local level to enable investment in pastoral sustainable land management.

The project is being implemented as an interim capacity-building activity between the Initial and the Second Communications. Hence it is intended to complement activities of the Phase 1 project, related to the Initial Communication, while at the same time forming basis for initiation of the Second National Communication to the UNFCCC.

The overall goal of the project is to undertake an assessment of capacity needs and priorities, with respect to the global environmental protection and sustainable development.

The main objective of the national capacity needs assessment is to contribute to the global development objective of Mozambique which is poverty eradication by understanding the linkages of the three pillars of development (social, economic and environmental). Thus the project will identify priorities for addressing global environmental aspects as they relate to national priorities, in particular the three Rio Conventions (UNFCCC, UNCBD and UNCCD).

The objective of the National Capacity Self Assessment is to assess capacity needs and priorities with respect to the global environment and within the context of sustainable development so that Albania can meet the requirements of the Global Environmental Conventions in a coordinated and strategic manner. The NCSA will take into account the Conventions on biodiversity, climate change and land degradation and will focus on cross-cutting issues and synergies between the Conventions.

The objective of the National Capacity Needs Self-Assessment (NCSA) is to identify country level priorities and needs for capacity building to address global environmental issues, in particular biological diversity, climate change, and land degradation, and the synergies between them, with the aim of catalyzing domestic and/or externally assisted action to meet those needs in a coordinated and planned manner.