Central Asian Countries Initiative for Land Management CACILM SLMIS Inception Workshop, Tashkent, 61

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Central Asian Countries Initiative for Land
Management CACILMSLMIS Inception Workshop,
Tashkent, 6-10 October 2008Sustainable Land
Management Information System(SLM-IS)

• Methodology and Capacity Development

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Central Asian Countries Initiative for Land
Management CACILMSLMIS Inception Workshop,
Tashkent, 6-10 October 2008

• CACILM Multicountry Partnership Framework
  Support Project
• The ADB-FAO Partnership Agreement foresees
• Inputs to the SLM-IS design phase
• Provision of globally available natural resource
  base data
• Training and capacity building
• Land degradation baseline in CAC
• Implementation in collaboration withthe NSEC
  and the NSIU in each country

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Central Asian Countries Initiative for Land
Management CACILMSLMIS Inception Workshop,
Tashkent, 6-10 October 2008

• FAO inputs to the SLM-IS Design phase and
  documentation
• Mission of International Consultant (will
  continue after this workshop)
• Assessment of existing relevant information and
  data in the participating countries
• Integration of land degradation indicators into
  the SLM-IS considering LADA concepts and
  monitoring requirements of CACILM

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Central Asian Countries Initiative for Land
Management CACILMSLMIS Inception Workshop,
Tashkent, 6-10 October 2008

• Provision of globally available baseline data

• FAO/LADA Land Use System (LUS) map for CACs
  including methodology, GIS routines and data
  bases
• Trends in Net primary Productivity (NPP) and
  Rainfall Use Efficiency (RUE) taking into account
  23 years time series of NDVI data
• Building the basis for national land use systems
  (LUS) map
• Provision of LADA documentation in Russian
  language (as and when required)

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Central Asian Countries Initiative for Land
Management CACILMSLMIS Inception Workshop,
Tashkent, 6-10 October 2008

• Preparation / refinement of the national land
  use systems (LUS) map

• Carried out by each country supported by a Letter
  of Agreement between FAO and the lead technical
  institution
• Provides the basis for national level assessment
  of land degradation

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Central Asian Countries Initiative for Land
Management CACILMSLMIS Inception Workshop,
Tashkent, 6-10 October 2008

• FAO Multicountry Training Workshops on LADA
  methodologies and procedures for national level
  assessment of land degradation including
• Mapping
• WOCAT-Questionnaire (QM)
• Monitoring and Integration

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Central Asian Countries Initiative for Land
Management CACILMSLMIS Inception Workshop,
Tashkent, 6-10 October 2008

• Implementation of WOCAT-QM and preparation of
  national land degradation baseline map
• Carried out by each country supported by a Letter
  of Agreement between FAO and the lead technical
  institution
• Provides the basis for local level assessment of
  land degradation and ground truthing of higher
  level results

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Central Asian Countries Initiative for Land
Management CACILMSLMIS Inception Workshop,
Tashkent, 6-10 October 2008

• FAO Multicountry Training Workshops on LADA
  methodologies and procedures for local level
  assessment of land degradation
• Training of trainers using LADA Toolbox, Visual
  Soil Assessment (VSA)

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Central Asian Countries Initiative for Land
Management CACILMSLMIS Inception Workshop,
Tashkent, 6-10 October 2008

• Implementation of local level assessment in a
  number of pilot sites/GEF projects by NSIU
• Not financed by the ADB/FAO partnership agreement

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Central Asian Countries Initiative for Land
Management CACILMSLMIS Inception Workshop,
Tashkent, 6-10 October 2008

• FAO Multicountry Inception Workshop
• Presentations
• LADA experiences with SLM-IS (Argentina, Tunisia)
• Land Use System (LUS) mapping and the use of GIS
  in the approaches and methodologies of LADA
• Integration of land degradation indicators of
  LADA in the SLM-IS
• Training and capacity building under the FAO
  component of the CMPF Support Project
• Agree on coordinated workplan (FAONSIUMSEC)

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