Sudan-National Action Program(NAP)

A presentation by

Alwia Yousif Mohamed Land-use and Desertification control Unit

Ministry of Agriculture and irrigationJune 2014

Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought(DLDD) in Sudan

Introduction Desertification, Land degradation and Drought are the greatest environmental and socioeconomic development challenges.The current area of Sudan after separation is almost desert, semi-desert and dry sub-humid. Its forests, rangelands and arable lands which provide a huge agricultural potential is threatened by resources over exploited, prolonged drought spell and desertification.

Fundamentals objectives of the NAP:

1-Insure participation of local communitiesFrom bottom to tope.2-Participation of CBOs and NGOs.3-Identification of partners roles.4-Participation and cooperation in financial

decision making among the all partners.

Base on the article10 of the convention general strategy confirm the following: * NAP program consider as part of national development programs.* Integration with the poverty reduction programs.

NAP-Features and contents:

• *Strengthen the local authorities and mechanism of federal government, ensure the participation of civil societies and NGOs.

• Consider previous experiences for combating desertification.

• Identification of the factors contributing to desertification, land degradation and drought in order to formulate the required policieses and plans for combating desertification.

• Increase the participation of all sector including women, farmers and pastoralist.

• Combating programs including the following:• Enhancement of the economy aspects for poverty

reduction.• Conservation of natural resources , rational and

sustainable use of resources.Development of theInstitutions and Regulations and land Use policies.Encourage the researchesAnd capacity building ofInformation system

Improvement of assessment and monitoring system.

Sudan experiences in rehabilitation of desertfid and degraded lands:

• In Sudan, Kordofan lands rehabilitation projects were among the pioneer projects, successful techniques were applied including:

• Water harvesting, macro and micro system on compacted soil(Gurdod) .

• In el Basherie oasis-N.Kordofan, sand dunes controlled by using local materials for inclosing sand, area was divided in to squares(10-25cm) and planted by adapted species (Tomam and Marakh).

• In Bara locality N.Kordofan, with collaboration of UNDP 1994 community based range lands rehabilitation project was conducted for carbon sequestration and biodiversity. Shelter belts established to protect an area of about 490 ha .the belt design was two rows of trees with distances 2x2m and the total number of trees was195000.

• Results indicated that, carbon sequestrated was about4640 ton, dunes stabilized and enhancement of biodiversity.

Recommendation:

• The magnitude of desertification and land degradation in Sudan as shown above indicated, that conservation and rehabilitation of degraded lands should urgently be considered among the priorities of the government development plans considering the local communities participation, techniques development and ease of application.

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