Country Pilot Partnership for Integrated Sustainable Land Management (CPP) (2008-2018)
The CPP Programme was officially launched in 2008 and it is recognised as Namibia’s second National Action Plan for implementing the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, succeeding NAPCOD which ran from 1994-2004. Land degradation is a major concern in arid Namibia and is manifested mainly in deforestation, soil erosion and salinisation and bush encroachment. The CPP seeks to address these issues using integrated cross-sectoral approaches to enable Namibia reach its Millennium Development Goal (MDG) #7: “environmental sustainability”. The CPP has 4 main sub projects focussing on climate change adaptation, improved community management of grazing land, improved land use planning and integrated sustainable land management.
An innovative coordinating framework is in place involving seven Ministries, the UN agencies, NGOs, academic institutions and donors to give policy direction, and to monitor and take the steps needed to improve the impacts of the different projects. The financial and administrative management of the programme is overseen by the MET. GEF provides funding worth US$10 million for each of the four core projects, while the Government of Namibia, the World Bank, UNDP, the European Union, GTZ and the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) fund other projects linked to the CPP. The Namibia Nature Foundation (NNF) is the lead implementing agency of the Programme.
To learn more about CPP, visit www.met.gov.na/CPP/default.aspx