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- Appropriateness of the innovations;
- Effectiveness and long-term durability
of soil and water conservation measures;
- Suitability of actions to protect
and rehabilitate the vegetation cover and measure of its biological
diversity;
- Level of use of biological methods
to improve soil fertility and control pests;
- Innovations that have significantly
improved water availability and quality;
- Sustainability of exploitation
of the natural resource base and of the improved livelihoods of the
community.
Social and
economic aspects:
- Level of economic and social benefits
accrued;
- Cost effectiveness in labour time
and maintenance of innovations;
- Community involvement in activity
planning and implementation;
- Community contribution to activities
in labour time and inputs;
- Rate and degree of adoption of
innovations at community level;
- Social capital enhancement;
- Contribution to strengthening
of local social structures;
- Extent of adoptions of approach
innovations and by surrounding communities;
- Sustainable benefits accruing
to the wider community in terms of infrastructure, facilities, organizations
and social development;
- Project contribution to community
empowerment in economic and social spheres;
- Degree of community commitment
to sustainable resource development e.g. taking ownership and responsibility
for resource management;
- Rate of progress in land adjudication
and resolving land tenure issues and the effect on local community
action;
- Project effects on local shelter,
sanitation, water supply and health.
Policy
related issues:
- Degree of government support and
commitment for project activities and their replication;
- Establishment of enabling institutional
frameworks at local level;
- Effectiveness of existing institutional
frameworks in resolving land and tenure issues;
- Degree of adoption of public policy
that decentralizes control and eliminates undue interference in the
individual’s management of his/her natural resources;
- Degree of influence over positive
changes in national land use policy development.
Submitting Success Stories to UNEP
UNEP is seeking projects or community-based
activities that satisfy the above criteria/indicators of success as
much as possible and which have been sustaining themselves without donor
support for at least 2 years.
To submit a project/community-based
activity for the "Saving the Drylands" award please send a 1-2 pages
summary of the project/activity you are proposing with the following
information in the given order:
- Name of Project;
- Country;
- Location in country including
biophysical descriptions;
- Number of people involved;
- Area (sq km) covered by the
project;
- Cost of Project (US $ equiv.);
- Source of Funds;
- Project Period (years);
- Problems;
- Solutions;
- Results/Impact;
- Why the project is a success;
- Names and addresses of three
referees outside the project;
- Contact person.
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UNEP
INITIATIVE ON SUCCESS STORIES IN LAND
DEGRADATION/ DESERTIFICATION CONTROL
 The
Background
SUCCESS STORIES IN AFRICA
Mossi
Plateau in Burkina Faso
Agro-ecological
Project Burkina Faso
Project
in SãoJoão Baptista Valley, Cape Verde
Agropastoral
Development in Mauritania
Sonnleiten
Ranch Project,Namibia
Project
in Kano and Jigawa States, Nigeria
Restoration
in the Louga Region of Northern Senegal
Mr.
Serigne Samb’s Farm,Thiambène Till, Senegal
SOS
Sahel Community ForestryProject in Ed Debba, Sudan
SUCCESS STORIES IN ASIA
Project
on Desertification Control in Naiman Banner County in China
Controlling
Drifting Sand in Cele County -Western China
Afforestation
and Salinity Control Using Tamarix; in Western China
The
Integrated Watershed Development Programme, Jhabua District, Madhya Pradesh,
India
Jhanwar
Watershed Project, India
Joint
Participatory Forest Management; Shiwalik Hills Haryana Province, India
The
Barefoot College Project,Tilonia,Rajasthan,India
Desert
Reclamation Using Shelterbelts in Thal, Pakistan
The contact
For more information on success stories
or request for reports please contact:
Coordinator, Success Stories Initiative
Social Dimensions and Sustainable
Practices
Division of Environmental Policy Implementation
Technical Co-operation Unit
United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP)
P.O Box 30552, Nairobi, Kenya
Tel:(254-2)-623261;
Fax:(254-2)-623284;
E-mail: elizabeth.migongo-bake@unep.org
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