Sustainable Agro-Pastoral and Land Management Promotion under the PNDP

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The Sustainable Agro-Pastoral and Land Management Promotion Project seeks to enhance the sustainability of land (SLM), and natural resources management under the Community Development Program, by complementing local and national benefits, with key global benefits, such as conservation of globally significant biodiversity, reduction of carbon emissions by improving land management activities and rehabilitating degraded lands, as well as increasing carbon sequestration. Furthermore, the project will stabilize riparian zones, and reduce sediment discharges into critical trans-boundary water bodies, such as Lake Chad and the Gulf of Guinea. The project has three main components: 1) enhanced integration of SLM into local development; 2) institutional support for SLM; and, 3) project management, coordination, monitoring and evaluation, and communication. The first component will co-finance SLM micro-projects, at the request of beneficiaries (communities and communes), within the project's intervention zone. The second component will reinforce the institutional framework at the national level, and strengthen the capacities of beneficiaries to better integrate SLM best practices in their local development plans. It also seeks to improve the mechanism of land conflict resolution, among farmers, foresters, herders, other natural resource users, and traditional chiefs. Finally, the third component will ensure appropriate project management, coordination, monitoring and evaluation, and communication.