UNDP Participates in Land Management Workshop

27 May 2011

 

Affiliated agencies and participants of the regional workshop.

Government representatives from various countries under the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) country officers and Global Environment Facility (GEF) officials came together at the Cascadia Hotel and Conference Centre in St. Ann's to participate in regional workshops. These workshops formed part of a series entitled "Designing Integrated Financial Strategies for Sustainable Land Management" meant to develop innovative strategies to finance activities of participants' National Action Programme. National Action Programmes (NAP) are one of the key instruments in the implementation of the UNCCD¹.

 

The workshop was hosted by the Ministry of Housing and the Environment with support from the Caribbean Network for Integrated Rural Development (CNIRD) and the Partnership Initiative for Sustainable Land Management (PISLM).

 

The workshops focused on major land problems facing the Caribbean, namely land degradation and ineffective waste disposal. Green economies were discussed with a recommendation to put forward this as a theme at the United Nation's Conference on Sustainable Development, particularly in the context of poverty eradication.

 

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