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Approach

CACILM is being implemented in a multi-country framework, which includes a 10-year program (2005-2015) of activities in each country based on their respective National Programming Framework (NPF).

The NPF describes each country's problems of land degradation and analyzes the natural and human-made causes. The NPF has projects/activities in the following areas:

• capacity building for strengthening the enabling environment
• capacity building for integrated land-use planning and management
• sustainable agriculture in irrigated land
• sustainable forest and woodland management
• sustainable pastureland management
• integrated resource management
• protected area management and biodiversity conservation
• remediation in the Aral Sea

At the multi-country level, activities include:

• sustainable land management and integrating them into planning and management
• developing a sustainable land management
• developing a sustainable land management information system
• promoting sustainable land management research
• supporting knowledge management and information dissemination

Projects

CACILM showcases an initial 8 priority national projects and 2 multicountry projects:

National Projects

• Rangeland Ecosystem Management in Kazakhstan
• Southern Area Agriculture and Development Project and Mountain Pasture Management in Susamir Valley, Kyrgyz Republic
• Rural Development and Demonstrating Local Responses to Combating Land Degradation and Improving Sustainable Land Management in Southwest Tajikistan
• Capacity Building and On-the-ground Investments for Integrated and Sustainable Land Management in Turkmenistan
• Achieving Ecosystem Stability on Degraded Land in Karakalpakstan and the Kyzylkum Desert and Land Improvement in Uzbekistan

Multicountry Projects

• CACILM Multicountry Partnership Framework Support
• CACILM Multicountry Capacity Building Project

Coordination

Multicountry

• A CACILM Steering Committee consists of national government representatives, development partners and other interested international organizations
• provides overall direction of CACILM implementation;
• approves changes to the CACILM work plan and financing plan;
• endorses proposals for funding; and
• monitors performance of CACILM program activities.
• ADB chairs the CACILM Steering Committee.
• CACILM Secretariat in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic supports the work of CACILM Steering Committee

National Level

• National Coordination Councils in each country consists of UNCCD Focal Point and representatives of key government ministries; NGOs, private sector and civil society:
• coordinates the implementation of projects and activities mandated by the national programming framework;
• supervise and monitor the performance of national project activities and report to CACILM Steering Committee; and
• review and endorse proposals for consideration by CACILM steering committee
• National Secretariats support the work of the National Coordination Councils.

Financing

The total program financing is up to $1.4 billion over the period 2006-2015. Committed funding up to end of 2008 is approximately $155 million, of which GEF will contribute $20,000,000 in grant financing.