NAP alignment
workshop for the
Pacific
27-28 March 2015
Bonn, Germany
The NAP and it
targets in light of
the evolving SDG
process
United Nations Convention
to Combat Desertification
Subject
Outline
Outline
• Background: the sustainable development global
agenda and the UNCCD process
• A possible approach
• Elements for a NAP plan vis-à-vis the SDGs
countries
• Piloting the process: the LDN Project
Background:
the global agenda
Subject(1)
Background
• Rio+20 (2012): the outcome document (the future we want)
and the concept of a land degradation neutral world;
• UN General Assembly (2014): the Open Working Group
(OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals and the post-2015
agenda; Goal 15 (Halt and reverse land degradation); Target
15.3 (Achieve a land degradation neutral world);
• UNFCCC (2015): the Lima call for climate action and the new
climate regime; the intended national determined
contribution (INDC)
Background:
the UNCCD process
Subject(2)
Background
• ACPs to take a number of actions in order to increase the
effectiveness of national policy and planning instruments;
• The intergovernmental working group (IWG) on land
degradation neutrality;
• ACPs to establish voluntary national targets using the UNCCD
monitoring and assessment framework, in order to measure
progress in achieving the priorities established in their NAPs;
• CRIC 13 to discuss a plan for the NAP alignment process visà-vis the overall SLM goals.
Subject
Approach
Approach
1. Compiling progress indicators adopted by COP 11 or
validating data from accredited global data sources
2. Review of progress in the formulation and
implementation of NAPs to see to which extend LDN
can be achieved and by when
3. Set LDN voluntary national targets making use of the
existing framework to measure progress in
implementing NAP priorities
4. Report to the COP on achievement of national targets
A plan for the NAP
PlanSubject
Piloting the
process: the LDN project
Subject
LDN Project
• Objective: participating countries translate the land
degradation neutrality goal into national voluntary targets,
making use of the implementation framework and the
monitoring and assessment mechanisms established within
the UNCCD process.
• Long-term aim: to contribute to reaching an agreement
among Parties by 2017 (COP 13) by which every country
adopts its own national voluntary target to achieve land
degradation neutrality, and reports to the COP on
implementation of its national action programme and the
progress made towards achieving such target.