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 Welcome to the Capacity Building Marketplace

 

Crowdfunding to finance Sustainable Land Management

​Non-profit organizations are increasingly discovering crowdfunding as a resource to find funding for small and large projects that support development and conservation. Crowdfunding, accessing sources from donors and lenders through the internet, can be used for many small and large projects around the world.
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"A mechanism to deliver Capacity Building where it is most needed"

15 April 2013 Mr. Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), officially launched the UNCCD's Capacity Building Marketplace. ​

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Tell us what is going on

Stakeholders at all levels, all over the world are contributing to capacity building, in support of the implementation of the UNCCD. What is happening in your corner of the global? Tell us and we will help you to tell the world.

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Capacity Building: Cornerstone in the UNCCD process

​Virtually from the very beginning of the UNCCD process, Parties identified the lack of requisite capacity, particularly at the national level, as a major stumbling block as regards the effective implementation of the Convention. Consequently, over the years the Conferences of the Parties (COP) have reinforced this recognition calling for the development and strengthening of capacity so as to...
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2013-05-17 @UNCCDcso: Empowering #women to improve #foodsecurity – what works and why? http://t.co/66J8gl4D6U

2013-05-17 @UNCCDcbm: Job offer at REGAL-IR (Kenya): Capacity Building/Training Coordinator http://t.co/JfP2WkbggK

2013-05-17 @UNCCDcbm: Business and Climate Change (Self-Study) #business #climatechange http://t.co/yugkZxN2lw

2013-05-17 @UNCCDcso: La contribution des #forêts à la #sécuritéalimentaire et à la nutrition mérite plus d'attention http://t.co/VQAtIW6l3f #UNFAO via @FAOnews

2013-05-17 @UNCCDcso: RT @NamibiaHorizons: lobal Efforts to Fight Drought, Desertification Take Shape in Namibia http://t.co/7Pj8pJz2QU via @evolvesustain

2013-05-17 @UNCCDcbm: NEW On-line course on “Climate Change Adaptation, Loss and Damage” Starting June 3rd. http://t.co/TvjDJUW0dd

2013-05-17 @UNCCDcso: #Waterscarcity poses risks for major #U.S. cities and businesses. To read more about this report, click http://t.co/2OnyeWzI2w

2013-05-17 @UNCCDcso: #Deforestation and #Desertification: The Main Environmental Challenges Facing #Morocco http://t.co/Aqy52Hhv8D

2013-05-17 @UNCCDcso: Climate Change and Fighting #Drought and #Desertification http://t.co/nIzZRG6feL

2013-05-17 @UNCCD: RT @unisdr: #GAR13 warns land degradation is a key driver of agricultural drought risk. http://t.co/A9yfiiiajS

2013-05-17 @UNCCDcso: RT @UNORCID: Researchers innovate High Resolution global Forest Cover Dataset- tracking #deforestation & #forestdegradation http://t.co/6…

2013-05-17 @UNCCDcbm: Today at 2PM (GMT) Google+ Hangout with Youth Envoy @AhmadAlhendawi http://t.co/l7hrHDiWJF #youth Ask questions using #UNYouthEnvoy

2013-05-16 @UNCCDcbm: UNITAR e-learning course "Introduction to a Green Economy" Last chance to register today: http://t.co/l8bFArzrTu

2013-05-16 @UNCCDcso: #Topsoil #Erosion Costs Farmers http://t.co/6a7BAvNrJY

2013-05-16 @UNCCDcso: #Indian Ocean Commission (#IOC) to Launch New Sub-regional Finance Strategy for #SLM. For more information, click http://t.co/omgFuAk2fa
 

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Put your innovative ideas on knowledge sharing to test!

15/05/2013News

The innovation contest aims to encourage knowledge sharing on ideas ad success stories related to priority themes in agriculture in the Middle-East and North-Africa region.
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WACDEP doing rapid capacity needs assessment in Africa

06/05/2013News

The Water and Climate Development Programme (WACDEP) launched a rapid capacity needs assessment in Africa on Tuesday, 23 April 2013. This programme, which will initially target eight African countries and five of that continent’s river basins, operates within the “Framework for Water Security and Climate Resilient Development” and offers capacity-building opportunities to a broad field of stakeholders. 
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Opportunities for Capacity Development in Drought Management

03/05/2013News

The UNCCD, the WMO and the FAO in cooperation with the UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development (UNW-DPC), jointly launched on 12 March 2013 a project on capacity building to support national drought management policies. The initiative will see among other things, regional workshops being held in Eastern Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean in 2013-2014.
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The Global Network on Capacity Building invites you

03/05/2013Background

The Global Network of National Councils for Sustainable Development was established in April 2012. It aims to among other things, improve information exchange for developing the potential for collaboration, and for encouraging the formation or strengthening of National Councils for Sustainable Development. The Network is currently administrated by Stakeholder Forum.
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Training in restoring degraded eco-environment

26/04/2013News

Citizens of thirty countries around the world, from Cuba to Vietnam, and from South Africa to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, can participate in the “Training Course on Restoration of Degraded Eco-environment.” The course to be held from June 18th to July 17th 2013, will take place at Gansu Desert Control Research Institute in Lanzhou city, in the Gansu province of the People’s Republic of China.
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China offers training opportunities to francophone Africa

26/04/2013News

The government of China invites citizens of French speaking African nations to participate in an “International Training Workshop on Technology of Combating Desertification.” The course will run from June 24th --- July 13th, 2013. The Chinese government will cover the training expenses, food, accommodation, local transportation, personal accident injury insurance of RMB 100 Yuan, and give the sum of RMB 80 Yuan per day for the duration of the course.
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World Water Week in Stockholm: building partnerships

26/04/2013Background

Ninety per cent of global population growth will take place in areas that are already facing water stress. We must find solutions to create a new economy that builds more prosperity and needs much less water to do it. Working together at all levels is one way of finding answers, Are you willing to lend a hand?
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Courses, volunteer positions and Internships at Summer of Soil 2013

17/04/2013Background

Summer of Soil is a movement for building collective capacity to become active stewards of the soil.
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