The program objective to strengthen the enabling environment at the national, provincial and local levels and promote an integrated approach to reducing land degradation while alleviating poverty, conserving biodiversity and restoring, sustaining, and enhancing the protective and productive functions and services of dryland ecosystems in the western region of the PRC.

To restore forest lands in Gansu, Shaanxi, and Xinjiang provinces and improve incomes and sustainable livelihoods from the use of forest land through the adoption of appropriate technologies and practices.

To strengthen the enabling environment, consolidate progress and promote an integrated approach to reducing land degradation, alleviating poverty, and conserving biodiversity while restoring, sustaining, and enhancing, the protective and productive functions and services of dryland ecosystem resources in the western region of the People’s Republic of China.

This project’s long-term goal is to prevent and arrest land degradation by institutionalizing sustainable land management practices in such a way that national socio economic priorities are met while at the same time contribute to achieving the objectives of the CCD. The objective of this project is to integrate sustainable land management within decision-making and development planning and strengthen capacities to implement best practices for sustainable land management and thus contribute to halting and reversing land degradation trends.

The project’s goal is the Achievement of MDGs and Sustainable Development goals established by the people and government of Kiribati through the achievement of national environmental, socio-economic and SLM objectives. The project’s objectiveis to strengthened capacities and an enabling environment for sustainable land management, improved levels of participation by stakeholders, better utilization of scientific and socio-economic data, approaches and strengthened capacity at the systemic, institutional and individual levels to address priority land degradation issues.

The Goal of the Medium Sized Project (MSP) under the UNDP-GEF Portfolio Approach is as follows: Contribute to maintaining and improving ecosystem stability, integrity, functions and services while enhancing sustainable livelihoods by building the capacity to implement sustainable land management into all levels of decision-making. The objective of the MSP is to strengthen human, institutional capacity, systemic capacity for Sustainable Land Management (SLM).

Long term goal: Contribute to the mitigation of land degradation by strengthening institutional and individual capacity and mainstreaming sustainable land management issues into national development strategies to improve living conditions for communities. Overall objective: To strengthen institutional and operational capacity to combat desertification and land degradation in Guinea.

The project objective is as follows: To strengthen and/or develop capacities for sustainable land management in relevant government ministries, the private sector, and civil society organizations, and to mainstream sustainable land management into national development planning. The project has been submitted under the LD FA/OP15 and the linked UNDP/GEF " LDC and SIDS Targeted Portfolio Approach For Capacity Development and Mainstreaming of Sustainable Land Management" (PMIS 2441).