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About the Partnership

What is the partnership?

The partnership represents the commitment among partners to develop and implement a prioritized program to effectively address land degradation and associated global benefits in the context of the Western Development Strategy. It will overlay on the Western Development Strategy the provisions of global conventions. These conventions are:

Why a partnership?

A partnership is the key to developing and implementing a sustainable program. Each partner will have clear benefits in implementing the program, leading to deepened commitment and increased effectiveness in achieving program goals. It will promote more efficient programming and use of scarce resources to combat land degradation.

The Partnership will develop a program approach to:

• combat land degradation and reduce poverty in selected ecoregions of national and global significance
• achieve global environmental benefits through conservation of biodiversity and carbon sequestration
• generate lessons on policies, institutional arrangements and approaches for integrated ecosystem management for widespread replication.

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