Institutional capacity building for establishing an enabling environment. For IEM to be effective and successful, cooperating and collaborating institutions and sectors must be supported by IEM knowledge and skills for policy making, planning, legislation, and joint management of the environment and natural resources. Joint and effective management of environmental and natural resources requires improving the capacities of cooperating and collaborating with government institutions for combining top-down and bottom-up approaches. The legitimacy of the joint management system within the provincial and autonomous regional government structure may be enhanced through the guidance and assistance of lead expert and advisory groups. The pool of experienced local experts trained by such groups, as well as the members of these groups, play an important role in providing guidance for future land degradation prevention and control in other provinces and autonomous regions.
Capacity Building to Combat Land Degradation Project