Environment and Energy

Mainstreaming of drylands/environmental issues into national development strategies

This initiative is a component of the Integrated Drylands Development Programme (IDDP). Fifteen countries in sub-Saharan Africa and the Arab States are being supported under the component to mainstream drylands developmental issues and priorities identified in National Action Programmes to Combat Desertification into their national development and planning frameworks. The component focuses on capacity building, i.e., assisting countries in mainstreaming and integrating NAPs into their national development frameworks based on needs and gaps identified. Additionally it is promoting policy dialogue on mainstreaming at the global, national and local levels; developing appropriate tools and methodologies for mainstreaming at national and local levels and will apply these to concrete programme development and implementation of identified priorities in the targeted countries. It will champion and promote learning, knowledge sharing and exchange of experiences and best practices amongst countries; bring these to bear upon and inform policy and programme formulation related to drylands development and establish effective networks and partnerships for implementation at all levels. It will also support the dissemination of lessons learnt on mainstreaming of drylands development issues into major development and planning frameworks at global, national, district and sectoral levels and at the Conference of the Parties (COP)/ Committee for the Review of the Convention (CRIC) sessions and other international fora.
The component funded by the Governments of Belgium, Denmark, Finland and Norway is supporting the following countries to mainstream drylands issues into their national development frameworks:

Benin	Niger
Ethiopia	Tanzania
Ghana	Tunisia
Kenya	Sudan
Lebanon	Syria
Mali	Uganda
Morocco	Yemen
Mozambique

• Summary of programmes under the mainstreaming component