UNCCD COP15 - Land for Life Day (including GEF Half-day)
[ Recorded webcast ]
9:00-12:00
GEF morning session: Land degradation neutrality: listening from experiences
The GEF day aims to give the floor to different stakeholders who have been involved in advancing the land degradation neutrality agenda including experiences of mainstreaming gender. Discussion will also involve key cross-cutting project issues that can ultimately affect the success and durability of the LDN targets countries have set.
9:00-10:00
Session 1: Land Degradation Neutrality: Listening from the voices on the Ground
In GEF7, at least 35 countries from all regions invested nearly 210 million of US$ in projects and programs including restoration targets (GEF reports to COP14 and COP15). Various stakeholders have been involved in implementing these projects: ministries, technical agencies, financing institutions, research centers, farmer organizations, local communities, civil society organizations, private sector, etc.
This session will aim to receive their feedback from their experiences on the ground, understand how the LDN targets were translated into the project logics, share lessons and challenges and how they were overcome. Recurrent project issues related to sustainability, innovation, and scaling up issues will also be discussed.
- Introduction
Moderator: Jean-Marc Sinnassamy (GEF Secretariat)
- Listening from the experience from Turkey
Speaker: Mr. Salih Serdar Yegül UNCCD National Focal Point, Turkey
- Feedback about LDN and the private sector
Speakers: Herve Lefeuvre (WWF-USA), Mbalo Ndiaye (World Cocoa Foundation, Cocoa life/Mondelez)
- Feedback from GEF Agencies
Speakers: Bora Masumbuko (IUCN), Hernan Gonzalez (LD lead, GEF team, FAO)
- Feedback from the science: from science to guidelines: lessons from the guidelines, feedback from the experiences above
Speaker: Graciela Metternicht (STAP)
- Q & A with the audience
Moderator: Jean-Marc Sinnassamy
- Closing of the session 1: Three take home messages
Moderator: Jean-Marc Sinnassamy
10:00-11:00
Session 2: Gender in LDN and landscape restoration
This session aims to highlight good practices, challenges and lessons from GEF projects as well as the way forward to combat inequality and empower women while working towards land degradation neutrality.
- Introduction
Moderators: Rockaya Aidara (Gender Officer, UNCCD) or Ganesh Chaulagai (Gender Project Officer, UNCCD)
- 8’28 - Film – Through her eyes (ICRAF, Resilient Food System, etc.)
Moderator: Rockaya Aidara (Gender Officer, UNCCD)
- Short description of the UNCCD-WOCAT Gender-responsive SLM tool and examples
Speaker: Nicole Harari
- Nigeria and Resilient Food Systems IAP: learning note on gender issues
Speaker: Rhodia Dia (project manager, RFS project, Nigeria)
- Gender issues in the GEF7 LD Strategy
Speaker: Asha Bobb-Semple (Environmental Specialist, GEF Secretariat)
- Feedback from a GEF Agency: incorporating gender issues in GEF projects
Speaker: Phemo Kgomotso (Senior Technical Advisor in Sustainable Land Management and Restoration, Nature, Climate and Energy Team, UNDP)
- Q and A with the audience
Moderator: Mrs. Rockaya Aidara
- Closing of the session: Three take-home messages
Moderation: Rockaya Aidara
11:00-12:00
Session 3: LDN: Where we go from here?
On the eve of the launch of GEF8, integration will be an important feature of the new GEF cycle. Land Degradation Neutrality should/may have a role in this context of integration and could help to promote GEF8 Integrated Programs. How can we use the LDN concept for cross-cutting and cross-sectoral approaches in countries? Which country, which experience could be highlighted to build the case? How to make use of LDN in the challenging context of emerging issues (drought, land tenure, gender, private sector)? How can LDN be mainstreamed into these topics?
- Introduction
Moderator: Guadalupe Duron (GEF STAP)
- Videos: a) Improving livelihoods through restoration of Chalghoza Pine in Pakistan from the TRI and (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SknZ0qj7A0) and b) forest landscape restoration in Cambodia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QicZaLB3jVs)
Moderator: Guadalupe Duron
- The political and institutional weight of LDN targets
Speakers: Karina Salinas (UNCCD National Focal Point) - Chris Dickinson (Green Climate Fund)
- Beyond the Scientific conceptual framework and guidelines for LDN
Speakers: Graciela Metternicht (GEF STA) - Ermias Betemariam (SPI - CGIAR)
- The future of LDN targets (GM): Monitoring, land-use planning ...
Speaker: Louise Bakker (Director, Global Mechanism)
- GEF8 Programming Strategies, GEF8 LD strategy
Speaker: Ulrich Apel (LD Coordinator, GEFSEC)
- Q and A
Moderator: Guadalupe Duron (GEF STAP)
- Closing of the session with three take home messages
Moderator: Guadalupe Duron (GEF STAP)
- End of the GEF Half-Day
Speaker: Chiz Aoki
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13:15-18:00
Land for Life afternoon session
The event aims to raise the awareness of the COP15 participants on how compelling sustainable land management is in addressing global issues such as poverty, food insecurity, water scarcity, climate change and human security. The winner of the Land for Life Award will share their success case.
Objectives
- To raise public awareness about the work of the Convention
- To raise awareness on how compelling sustainable land management is in addressing global issues such as land degradation, biodiversity loss, poverty, food insecurity, inequalities, water scarcity, and climate change and human security.
- To inspire the public and decision-makers to take practical and policy actions to achieve land degradation neutrality by 2030 and the related Sustainable Development Goals
- To enable UNCCD advocates/voices to use the experiences and case studies from Côte d’Ivoire to bring life to the policy actions at stake at COP15
- Showcase the restoration projects
- Networking for event participants
Programme highlights
A half-day afternoon event will focus on showcasing the UNCCD Land for Life Program including the Land for Life Award Laureate, Land Heroes and Land Ambassadors. The 2021 Land for Life Award Laureate will share their land restoration actions and sustainable land management practices joined by experts from various institutions, including NGOs, and the private sector will be invited to speak about ways to scale up the restoration of degraded lands.
In the evening, in recognition of the 10th anniversary of the Changwon Initiative, a celebration event will be co-organized in collaboration with UNCCD and the Korea Forest Service (KFS), to commemorate the achievements of the Initiative (2011-2021). The event will provide an opportunity for sharing experiences and lessons learned among interested stakeholders, while raising awareness about the Initiative’s contribution to achieving LDN. The Changwon Initiative has also supported the Land for Life Award of the UNCCD. Changwon Initiative, launched at the UNCCD COP 10 in Changwon by the Government of the Republic of Korea, aims to forge partnerships in implementing the Convention towards global targets to combat desertification. Since its inception, the Changwon Initiative (CI) has delivered significant results in realizing Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN), Sustainable Development Goals 15.3.
Proposed Agenda
13:15 - 13:25
Opening of Land for Life Day
Moderator: Lukwesa Burak
Speakers: Sarah Banda-Genchev, UNCCD Land for Life Coordinator (UNCCD) - Romario Valentine (video)
13:25 - 14:45
Interactive dialogue with UNCCD Land Ambassadors
Speakers: Amb. Kwon, Ricky Kej - President Tarja Halonen - Inna Modja - Baaba Maal
15:00 - 16:30
Mother Earth and her Daughters: Women and Life for Life
Moderator: Dr Musonda Mumba, UNDP, Senior Advisor, UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
Speakers: President Tarja Halonen, former President of Finland (Opening Remarks) - Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Coordinator of the Association of Peul Women and Autochthonous Peoples of Chad - Mariodly Sanchez Santivanez, Manager of the Forest Alliance en Asociación para la Investigación y Desarrollo Integral (AIDER), Peru - Agnes Leina, Founder and Executive Director of Il'laramatak Community Concerns (ICC), Kenya - Mailes Zulu Muke, Save Environment and People Agency (SEPA), Zambia
16:45 - 17:30
Discussion: Youth Engagement inified voice and collective action
Moderator: Lukwesa Burak
Speakers: Patricia Kombo, UNCCD Land Heroe, Kenya - Moses Mulindwa, UNCCD Land Heroe, Uganda - Ibrahim Musa, UNCCD Land Heroe, Nigeria - David Chapoloko, UNCCD Land Heroe, Zambia
17:30 - 17:55
Land Restoration and the role of stakeholder
Moderator: Sarah Banda Genchev (UNCCD)
- Video on Land for Life Award
- Presentation of his work as Land for Life Award
- Q&A
17:55 - 18:00
Closing session
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18:30 – 20:30
Special Event: Celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the Changwon Initiative and the UNCCD Land for Life Award
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Selected photos
All photos by: IISD/ENB | Matthew TenBruggencate
Source: https://enb.iisd.org/rio-conventions-pavilion-unccd-cop15/13-may-2022
