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LDC/SIDS Portfolio Project: Capacity Building for Sustainable Land Management
The goal of the project is to contribute to global benefits through the promotion of SLM initiatives that will enhance and maintain ecosystem productivity and ecological functions through capacity building in and the mainstreaming of SLM. The project objective is to contribute to reversing land degradation trends through the creation of an enabling environment for SLM by developing capacities within appropriate government and civil society institutions/user groups and through mainstreaming SLM considerations into government planning processes in Haiti.
Reducing Vulnerability of Arid Oasian Zones to climate change and variability through Improved Watershed Management
The long-term goal of the project is to improve water management in light of climate change impacts in order to improve ecological functioning and human well being. The project objective has two foci: to address urgent issues through improved environmental management and, secondly, to show how climate change information and improved data on water can be used to enhance resource management and decision making at several levels, including technical, policy, and community level demand side management.
LDC/SIDS Portfolio Project: Capacity Building and Resource Mobilization for Sustainable Land Management in Bangladesh
The objective of the project is stated as follows: To strengthen the enabling environment and capacity for SLM while ensuring broad -based political and participatory support for the process. This MSP is a sub-project under the UNDP "LDC and SIDS Targeted Portfolio Approach For Capacity Development and Mainstreaming of Sustainable Land Management" (GEF PMIS 2441).
Strengthening the Capacity of Vulnerable Coastal Communities to Address the Risk of Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events
To integrate the climate change vulnerabilities and adaptation options of coastal communities into development planning processes in three provinces of southern Thailand
LDC/SIDS Portfolio Project: Building Capacity and Mainstreaming Sustainable Land Management in Bhutan
Intensive land use, poor soil and irrigation water management, shifting cultivation, overgrazing, firewood gathering, and development of infrastructure such as roads are causing serious damage and accelerating land degradation in Bhutan. Sustainable land management (SLM) provides a comprehensive solution to the problem and could restore the integrity and productivity of the ecosystem. The objective of the project is to build capacity in SLM in appropriate government and civil society institutions and user groups and mainstream SLM into government planning and strategy development.
Promoting energy efficiency in buildings
The key project objective is the reduction of CO2 equivalent emissions through transformation of the construction market in Bosnia and Herzegovina with a view of wider adoption of energy efficiency technologies in the construction industry.
LDC/SIDS Portfolio Project: Legal and Institutional Capacity Building to Combat Land Degradation and Deforestation in Democratic Republic of Congo
The project’s long-term goal isto contribute to the mitigation of land degradation and promotion of ecosystem integrity and stability, with enhanced ecological functions and services through capacity development and mainstreaming of sustainable land management. Its overall objective is to strengthen DRC’s national institutional and human resource capacity to combat land degradation in DRC.
Strengthening National Capacity in Rio Convention Implementation through Targeted Institutional Strengthening and Professional Development
To build national capacity for more effective environmental management in Uzbekistan, by improved national environmental policy planning and implementation.
Development of National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP), Assessment of Capacity Building Needs for In-situ and Ex-situ Biodiversity Conservation
To enable Afghanistan to better meet its immediate obligations under the Convention on Biological Diversity, especially in relation to Article 6 by developing a National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan, which incorporates the decisions and work programmes of the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity, and submit it to the CBD Secretariat.
To enable Afghanistan to assess its capacity building needs in priority areas for the conservation in-situ and ex-situ of its biodiversity.
Meeting the Primary Obligations of the Rio Conventions through Strengthening Capacity to Implement Natural Resources Legislation
The Overall Goal of this project is the more effective implementation of MEAs in Lao PDR, in direct support of national socio-economic goals.