The Goal of the Medium Sized Project (MSP) under the UNDP-GEF Portfolio Approach has been established 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 and systemic capacity for Sustainable Land Management (SLM).

The overall goal of the NAP is to promote global and local benefits through provision for and maintenance of ecosystem health, integrity, stability and function in the context of Trinidad and Tobago’s plans for sustainable economic development. The principal objective of the MSP is to halt and reverse land degradation trends by establishing an enabling environment to combat land degradation through a participatory process, capacity building, mainstreaming of SLM into national development strategies, processes and resource allocation for SLM.