Article 8 Verdrag van de Verenigde Naties ter bestrijding van woestijnvorming in de landen die te kampen hebben met ernstige droogte en/of woestijnvorming, in het bijzonder in Afrika
Regional implementation Annex for Africa
1 Consistent with article 10 of the Convention, the overall strategy of national action programmes shall emphasize integrated local development programmes for affected areas, based on participatory mechanisms and on integration of strategies for poverty eradication into efforts to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought. The programmes shall aim at strengthening the capacity of local authorities and ensuring the active involvement of local populations, communities and groups, with emphasis on education and training, mobilization of non-governmental organizations with proven expertise and strengthening of decentralized governmental structures.
2 National action programmes shall, as appropriate, include the following general features:
a) the use, in developing and implementing national action programmes, of past experiences in combating desertification and/or mitigating the effects of drought, taking into account social, economic and ecological conditions;
b) the identification of factors contributing to desertification and/or drought and the resources and capacities available and required, and the setting up of appropriate policies and institutional and other responses and measures necessary to combat those phenomena and/or mitigate their effects; and
c) the increase in participation of local populations and communities, including women, farmers and pastoralists, and delegation to them of more responsibility for management.
3 National action programmes shall also, as appropriate, include the following:
a) measures to improve the economic environment with a view to eradicating poverty:
(i) increasing incomes and employment opportunities, especially for the poorest members of the community, by:
– developing markets for farm and livestock products;
– creating financial instruments suited to local needs;
– encouraging diversification in agriculture and the setting-up of agricultural enterprises; and
– developing economic activities of a para-agricultural or non-agricultural type;
(ii) improving the long-term prospects of rural economies by the creation of:
– incentives for productive investment and access to the means of production; and
– price and tax policies and commercial practices that promote growth;
(iii) defining and applying population and migration policies to reduce population pressure on land; and
(iv) promoting the use of drought resistant crops and the application of integrated dry-land farming systems for food security purposes;
b) measures to conserve natural resources:
(i) ensuring integrated and sustainable management of natural resources, including:
– agricultural land and pastoral land;
– vegetation cover and wildlife;
– forests;
– water resources; and
– biological diversity;
(ii) training with regard to, and strengthening, public awareness and environmental education campaigns and disseminating knowledge of techniques relating to the sustainable management of natural resources; and
(iii) ensuring the development and efficient use of diverse energy sources, the promotion of alternative sources of energy, particularly solar energy, wind energy and biogas, and specific arrangements for the transfer, acquisition and adaptation of relevant technology to alleviate the pressure on fragile natural resources;
c) measures to improve institutional organization:
(i) defining the roles and responsibilities of central government and local authorities within the framework of a land use planning policy;
(ii) encouraging a policy of active decentralization, devolving responsibility for management and decision-making to local authorities, and encouraging initiatives and the assumption of responsibility by local communities and the establishment of local structures; and
(iii) adjusting, as appropriate, the institutional and regulatory framework of natural resource management to provide security of land tenure for local populations;
d) measures to improve knowledge of desertification:
(i) promoting research and the collection, processing and exchange of information on the scientific, technical and socio-economic aspects of desertification;
(ii) improving national capabilities in research and in the collection, processing, exchange and analysis of information so as to increase understanding and to translate the results of the analysis into operational terms; and
(iii) encouraging the medium- and long-term study of:
– socio-economic and cultural trends in affected areas;
– qualitative and quantitative trends in natural resources; and
– the interaction between climate and desertification; and
e) measures to monitor and assess the effects of drought:
(i) developing strategies to evaluate the impacts of natural climate variability on regional drought and desertification and/or to utilize predictions of climate variability on seasonal to interannual time scales in efforts to mitigate the effects of drought;
(ii) improving early warning and response capacity, efficiently managing emergency relief and food aid, and improving food stocking and distribution systems, cattle protection schemes and public works and alternative livelihoods for drought prone areas; and
(iii) monitoring and assessing ecological degradation to provide reliable and timely information on the process and dynamics of resource degradation in order to facilitate better policy formulations and responses.
- Regeling
- Verdrag van de Verenigde Naties ter bestrijding van woestijnvorming in de landen die te kampen hebben met ernstige droogte en/of woestijnvorming, in het bijzonder in Afrika
- Soort
- Verdrag
- Geldend vanaf
- 06-09-2001
- BWB-id
- BWBV0001192
- Versie
- 2001-09-06_0