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Title: UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION SOUTH AFRICA


1
UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION TO COMBAT
DESERTIFICATIONSOUTH AFRICAS NATIONAL ACTION
PLAN (NAP)
  • Portfolio Committee Briefing
  • Presenter Maria Mbengashe
  • 11 October 2004

2
OVERVIEW
  • Why National Action Program (NAP)?
  • Objectives of UNCCD
  • Desertification/land degradation- issues and
    implications
  • Global and National legal frameworks
  • NAP vision and objectives
  • How NAP was developed
  • Existing Programmes
  • Progress made in the development of the NAP
  • Plans for the next six months.

3
OBJECTIVES - NATIONAL ACTION PROGRAM (NAP)
UNCCD-Article 10
  • Requirement of Convention to Combat
    Desertification (UNCCD)
  • NAP- Long term integrated strategies focusing on
    improved productivity of land aimed at
  • Prevention and/or reduction of land degradation
  • Rehabilitation of degraded ecosystems e.g..
    grasslands
  • Reclamation of desertified land
  • Integrating strategies for poverty eradication
  • Promote cooperation among departments, spheres of
    govts, civil society and other MEAs
  • Mobilisation of funds and resources

4
OBJECTIVES OF UNCCD
  • To combat desertification and mitigate the
    effects of drought through effective action at
    all levels, supported by international
    cooperation and partnership arrangements, in the
    framework of an integrated approach which is
    consistent with Agenda 21, with a view to
    contributing to the achievement of sustainable
    development in affected areas.

5
DESERTIFICATION-ISSUES AND IMPLICATIONS
  • Desertification is land degradation in arid,
    semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas resulting from
    erosion, deforestation, water scarcity, loss of
    soil fertility overgrazing and climatic
    variations
  • Land degradation is worldwide in geographic
    extent and global in its environmental and socio
    economic impacts. 91 of South Africa surface
    area has arid, semi-arid or dry-subhumid climates
  • Drylands ecosystem have immense scientific,
    economic and social value and are source of
    livelihood to a quarter of earths population
  • Since 1990, 6 million hectares of productive land
    has been lost every year due to land degradation
  • 14 African countries are subject to water
    scarcity
  • Threatens the livelihoods of one billion people
    and has already made 135 million people homeless
  • As a result of declining food security the number
    of undernourished people in Africa doubled from
    100m in 1960 to 200m in 1995
  • Prevention and control of land degradation is
    critical to achieving sustainable development

6
GLOBAL AND NATIONAL LEGAL FRAMEWORKS
  • RIO CONVENTIONS CBD,UNCCD AND UNFCCC-
  • Adopted in1997 United Nations Convention to
    Combat Desertification in those Countries
    experiencing serious drought and/or
    desertification, particularly in Africa (the
    UNCCD). South Africa ratified in 1997
  • WSSD 2002 and Millennium Development Goals
  • NEPAD- commitment of preventing land degradation
  • NEMA-Biodiversity Act no 10 of 2004
  • National Forest Act National Veld and Forest
    Fire Act
  • National Water Act and Conservation of
    Agricultural Resources Act (CARA)

7
NAP VISION
  • Prosperous and healthy South Africans living in
    an environment restored and maintained through
    universal improvement in land management to its
    beautiful landscapes and productive ecosystems
    that sustain livelihoods and ecosystem services,
    for the benefit of current and future generations.

8
NAP- PURPOSE
  • To promote sustainable land management throughout
    South Africa
  • Establish strategies and priorities to combat
    desertification
  • Implementation of policies that affect natural
    resource management and rural development
  • Partnerships between governments departments,
    private sector, communities, civil society and
    land owners
  • Strengthen implementation and collaboration among
    existing program initiatives
  • Poverty alleviation, promotion of the enhancement
    of sustainable livelihoods and sustainable land
    management through land reform, community based
    projects, rural finance human resource
    development and awareness raising and education

9
DEVELOPMENT OF NAP
  • South Africa has established institutional and
    legal arrangements to meet its commitments in
    terms of the UNCCD.
  • The Department of Environmental Affairs and
    Tourism (DEAT) is the Focal Point for the
    Convention.
  • A multi-stakeholder Steering Committee guides the
    role as Focal Point for the UNCCD.
  • The SA-UNCCD Steering Committee has been the
    principal coordinating mechanism since 1995,
    prior to South Africas accession to the
    Convention.
  • SA has involved relevant national and provincial
    government departments, communities, NGOs,
    academic institutions and private sector in the
    development and implementation of the NAP

10
EXISTING PROGRAMS
  • The National Landcare Programme -DoA
  • Working for Water -DWAF
  • Community Based Natural Resource Management
    Projects (DEAT and others)
  • Desert Margins Programme (DMP) regional GEF
    funded research activities involving 9 African
    countries (Kenya, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Mali,
    Namibia, Senegal Niger, South Africa and Zimbabwe

11
ACHIEVEMENTS
  • National Steering Committee established
  • The development of NAP based on intensive
    consultation with all stakeholders, from
    community to national levels as well as officials
    from the UNCCD Secretariat and Global Mechanism
    in Rome.
  • A national awareness campaigns in 1998,1999 and
    2004.
  • Cabinet memorandum and NAP have been drafted.
  • Private Sector Survey Report Towards the Nap
    Resource Mobilization Strategy has been
    concluded.

12
PLANS FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS
  • Minister to present NAP to Parliament and
    submission to Cabinet for approval.
  • National Steering Committee to function as a
    catalyst in the preparation, implementation and
    evaluation of the NAP as a required by the
    Convention.
  • Private Sector Forum launched by the Deputy
    Minister and followed by the finalisation of the
    Resource Mobilisation Strategy.
  • Presentation of the NAP and Resource Mobilisation
    Strategy at the UNCCD Inter-sessional meeting in
    2005.
  • NAP becomes a baseline for land management
    projects.
  • Projects are monitored, evaluated and records
    developed into national reports.
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