Mauritania Sustainable Landscape Management Project under the SAWAP

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The development objective of the Sustainable Landscape Management Project under the SAWAP for Mauritania is to strengthen sustainable landscape management (SLM) in targeted productive ecosystems in Mauritania. The project comprises of three components. The first component, sustainable landscape management knowledge, governance and partnerships consists of following three sub-components: (i) building sustainable landscape management capacity, governing tools, and knowledge sharing; (ii) strengthening monitoring of ecosystem services; and (iii) enabling development of a sustainable gum arabic value chain. The second component, SLM practice supports investments in SLM practices in degraded gum Arabic producing ecosystems and their integration into local development planning, for mutual reinforcement. It consists of following two sub-components: (i) investing in SLM; and (ii) integrating SLM practices in local development planning. The third component provides project management support to the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MEDD).