Generic guidelines for mainstreaming drylands issues into national development frameworks
This document provides broad generic steps for mainstreaming environment and drylands issues into national development frameworks, as well lessons drawn from various countries on environment and drylands mainstreaming. It demonstrates that by prioritizing Millennium Development Goal 7 (MDG 7), aimed at ensuring environmental sustainability, countries would also be able to deliver on other MDGs and vice versa, and that failure to address drylands development challenges will hold back countries' progress on all MDGs. It particularly addresses water deficit, droughts, land degradation and climate change as some of the challenges that would benefit from a mainstreaming affirmative action on drylands.
Its overall aim is to influence action at several levels of planning and policy engagement, in response to the need of making drylands visible at all levels. It contains lessons drawn from countries in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean (including Argentina, Bangladesh, Barbados, Benin, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, China, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Rwanda, Samoa, Tanzania, Tunisia and Uganda) on mainstreaming environment into development frameworks with a particular focus on drylands issues, as well as a review made of other international organizations' guidelines on the same subject.
These guidelines have been developed by the UNDP-DDC in close collaboration with the UNEP and UNDP/Global Environment Facility (GEF) Global Support Unit.