This is a working group for the GEF-7 Drylands Impact Programme Partners to discuss and share views on good practices, innovations and lessons learnt from the GEF-7 Drylands Impact Programme
FAO seeks to mainstream SSTC at corporate and operational levels and is optimizing the impact and visibility of SSTC across the regions, sub-regions and countries, including through strengthening relationships with partners, towards achieving the SDGs. Close engagement with countries and regions, resource partners as well as with FAO streams/offices/centers, is critical for improving the SSTC modality mechanism.
Morocco
In the past, 85 experts were fielded in three countries: Burkina Faso, Niger and Djibouti. Morocco will also provide both financial support and technical assistance through a USD 1 million general agreement recently signed with FAO for the benefit of African countries. In this framework, tripartite agreements have been signed with Guinea and Mali.
"New agreement aims to improve food security, boost rural development, and address climate change in the Global South
11 November 2016, Marrakesh - FAO is joining forces with the South Centre, an intergovernmental organization of developing countries, to help the countries of the Global South eliminate hunger and malnutrition, reduce poverty, address climate change and achieve sustainable rural development under the umbrella of South-South cooperation.