Introduces the GEF-7 Dryland Sustainable Landscapes Program (DSL-IP), which takes a catalytic, country-driven approach to accelerating transformational and durable changes at scale.
This will be applied across dryland communities in 11 countries in three geographical clusters to avoid, reduce, and reverse further degradation, desertification, and deforestation of land and ecosystems in drylands.
The programmatic approach of the DSL IP will take account of the similar and transboundary nature of many of the challenges facing drylands.
The program aims to reach close to 1 million direct beneficiaries and bring 12 million hectares of drylands under sustainable land management, including 1.1 million hectares primarily benefitting biodiversity and preventing deforestation of 10,000 hectares of high conservation value forests. In addition, the program will improve the management effectiveness in 1.6 million hectares of protected areas and restore 0.9 million hectares of degraded land in the drylands. All these activities will result in total greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions of 34.6 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent (tCO2e).
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