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and developing programs and projects to implement their preferred options. Government
agencies and development partners can promote this approach by promoting the use of best
practices in community driven development by project and program developers. Provision of
best practice guidelines and investments to strengthen the capacity of such agents in assessing
local needs, facilitating local groups and other relevant skills can be helpful in this regard.
4.3.8. Address specific constraints to SLM for climate change mitigation and adaptation at
national and local levels through CSIFs
The specific priorities for policy changes and investments to support SLM activities are being
identified at the national and local levels in several African countries through the TerrAfrica
process of developing Country Strategic Investment Frameworks (CSIFs) for SLM. This process
often identifies key policy changes, such as changes in land tenure policies or implementation of
such policies that are needed, as well as specific investment priorities to promote SLM. Such
priorities usually include many of the needs highlighted above, such as investments in
strengthening technical, organizational and human capacity, improving knowledge generation
and management, and others. By incorporating climate issues and key stakeholders concerned
about these issues into the process of developing CSIFs, this process can help to integrate
approaches to jointly address climate change, land degradation and other environmental
concerns, and economic development and poverty.
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