DESIRE – Desertification Mitigation and Remediation of Land
DESIRE Work Block 3:
Defining Potential
Prevention and Mitigation
Strategies
Gudrun Schwilch / CDE
1 October 2007 / WB3 Training Workshop Murcia, Spain
DESIRE – Desertification Mitigation and Remediation of Land
The DESIRE initiative – project approach
Diagnostic phase
Evaluating biophysical
and socio-economical,
context per study site
WB1
Current status and
stakeholder needs
assessment
Synthesis and
implementation
phase
Dissemination phase
Graph: modified after Coen Ritsema, Alterra
Evaluation
performance and
determine regional
effects WB5
Land degradation and
conservation indicators
WB2
Defining promising
prevention and
remediation strategies
WB3
Implementing and
testing of selected
measures WB4
Development of a harmonized information
WB6
system, preparation of guidelines, and
practical handbooks for end-users etc.
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Aim and role of WB3:
To
• identify,
• evaluate,
• document and
• share
existing and potential SLM strategies and to
• select and
• negotiate
promising strategies for implementation in WB4
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Aim of WB3 for each study site:
• WP 3.1: To identify existing and
potential strategies with a
participatory learning approach
• WP 3.2: To evaluate, document and
share strategies with the WOCAT tools
• WP 3.3: To select and negotiate the
most promising strategies with a
comparative analysis and decision
support tool
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WP 3.1: Identification workshop
• Heterogeneous learning
groups of study site
stakeholders
• About 3 days, directly in the field
(in- and outdoor)
• Lead by local moderators previously
trained in the participative learning
methodology ‚Learning for
Sustainability‘
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Stakeholder workshop content:
• Initiate a mutual learning process
among local and external participants
• Share experiences and jointly reflect
on current and potential
problems and solutions
regarding land degradation
and desertification.
• Learn together and in the context.
• Create a list of 3-5 existing and
potential strategies for follow-up.
Training material
Learning
process
Context
Learning group
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Participants:
• Local stakeholders: land users,
community leaders, local agricultural
advisors (2 days)
• external stakeholders: local
government representatives, NGO‘s,
agricultural advisors, researchers
(1 day at the end)
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WP 3.2: Evaluation, documentation
and share of strategies
• Conducted by previously trained
local facilitators
• Documentation and evaluation of
the 3-5 identified strategies with
the help of the WOCAT (basic)
questionnaires on SWC technologies
and approaches
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• Time requirements: 1 week
per strategy
• Review of documentation through
review team
• Potential strategies are either simply
described or also documented
(hypothetically) with the help of the
WOCAT questionnaires.
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Sharing the strategies:
• On-line availability of all documented
strategies in the WOCAT databases
• Farm exchange visits:
The contributors of the 3-5 best
documented and most innovative
strategies will win a visit to another
interesting site (e.g. Greek will visit
Russian salinisation site), accompanied
by a journalist.
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WP 3.3: Strategy selection
• 2-days learning workshop with same
stakeholders as in WP 3.1
• Use of WOCAT database to have full
basket of options
• Use of comparative analysis and
decision support tool(s) for negotiation
process -> implementation in WB4
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Decision support tool
• This tool should allow to combine
existing and new strategies
• Negotiation for implementation
depending on study site:
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Government land / park / research site
Single land user
Group of land users (e.g. in catchment)
Community land
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WB3 Methodology
WP 3.1
Stakeholder workshop 1
Mutual learning
Identification of actual and
potential solutions
3-5 days
WP 3.2
Assessment of local and
potential solutions
Documentation and
evaluation
2-3 months
Local water and
biomass cycles:
disturbances
causes and impacts
(natural and human)
solutions
Assessment
of locally
applied
solutions
and ideas
for potential
strategies
Technology T1 and Approach A1
Technology T2 and Approach A2
Technology T3 and Approach A3
Technology T4 and Approach A4
Indicators of
degradation and
conservation
Stakeholders
roles and
responsibilities
Prioritize
local and
potential
solutions for
further
assessment
Technology T5 and Approach A5
For each T and A:
Description, specifications and
costs
natural and human environment
analysis (pros and cons, impact,
acceptance, etc)
Review and quality
assurance
Preparations:
Completion of cycles with assessed solutions
Identification of gaps in cycles
Preparations:
Description of natural and human environment
First list of actual technologies and approaches (incl. photos)
Documentation and evaluation
with questionnaires
WP 3.3
Stakeholder workshop 2
Selection and decision support
for local implementation
2-3 days
Selection from
WOCAT database
with local/potential,
DESIRE and
worldwide solutions
Comparison and
appraisal of options
for local application,
with weighted criteria
Decision for test
implementation with
commitment of
researchers, land
users and government
Embedding into overall
land management
strategy
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WB3 results and deliverables:
• WB3 methodology including a tool for
comparative assessment and selection of
various strategy options
• A database with evaluated strategies from all
study sites
• Reports on workshops and exchange visits
• Ready-to-implement measures for each study
site, which will be tested in WB4
• Contribution to WB6: Dissemination.
Opportunity to produce a book WOCATDESIRE (like ‚where the land is greener‘)
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Role of WB3 coordination:
• Develop and provide tools and
methods
• Train and coach local
facilitators
• Provide backstopping and
support to all study sites
(concerning WB3)
• Ensure link to other WBs and
specifically to
WB6 (dissemination)
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Role of study sites:
• Participate in trainings (2 pers. per study site)
• Translation of tools (if needed)
• Conduct learning workshops with local
stakeholders and provide reports
• Document and evaluate strategies
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Draft working plan of WB3:
• Development of tools
(March 07 – March 08)
WP 3.1:
• Pilot-run of tool package for stakeholder
workshop 1 & strategy assessment and
training of first moderators/facilitators in
Morocco (June 07, French)
• Review and consolidation of tool package
(July - August 07)
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• Training of study site facilitators
(October 07):
– In one of the study sites at a concrete
example: Murcia, Spain
– Ideally two people per site: gender
balanced, one more a SWC specialist, the
other more an educational/moderator
type.
• Translation of tools if needed (October 07 –
March 08, depending on tool)
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• Local stakeholder workshop 1 in study sites
(October - November 07)
WP 3.2:
• Documentation and evaluation of strategies
(November 07 – January 08)
• Farm exchange visits (later, during
implementation phase of WB4)
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WP 3.3:
• Pilot – run of comparative selection and
decision tool and first training of facilitators
(January 2008)
• Training of study site facilitators
(February 2008)
• Local selection workshops: February – March
08 (to allow implementation start in first study
sites from March 08 onwards, depending on
agric. calendar)