Strengthening anti-desertification authorities

Description

Strengthening anti-desertification authorities involves enhancing the capacity, coordination, and resources of institutions responsible for combating land degradation. This strategy focuses on improving policy implementation, monitoring, and enforcement, as well as facilitating stakeholder collaboration at local, national, and international levels. By empowering these authorities, the approach aims to ensure effective prevention, mitigation, and rehabilitation of desertified areas, addressing root causes such as unsustainable land use, poor management, and inadequate regulatory frameworks.

Implementation

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

Agenda 21 recommends establishing or strengthening national and local anti-desertification authorities within government and local executive bodies, as well as local committees/associations of land users, in all rural communities affected, with a view to organizing working cooperation between all actors concerned, from the grass-roots level (farmers and pastoralists) to the higher levels of government.