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Strategic Investment Program (SIP)

Region	Angola
Country	Angola
Description	SIP is designed to provide an operational framework for partners to collectively deliver on the objectives of the GEF-4 Land Degradation Focal Area Strategy. The project aims to prevent and reduce the impact of land degradation on ecosystem services in country-defined priority SSA ecosystems. The program will support sub-Saharan countries to design and manage programs of activities that advance SLM mainstreaming, improve governance for SLM, and strengthen coalition development. Specifically, it will address weaknesses in the enabling environment that are key for SLM (such as land tenure, multisector coordination and planning at all levels, decentralized decision-making, and public expenditure management); upscale best-bet SLM practices on the ground, building on successes, common diagnostics, and clear country priorities; and, address target key knowledge and capacity gaps. SIP is part of TerrAfrica, the Sub-Sahara level program that aims to promote investment, build partnerships and coalitions and facilitate SLM knowledge management on SLM in the region. Although Angola is not on SIP work programme for GEF 4, this project will collaborate closely with other SIP projects and TerrAfrica processes especially by aligning the Medium term Investment Plan to the TerrAfrica Country Strategic Investment Framework and to the NEPAD/TerrAfrica Centers of Excellence on SLM proposal. It will utilize the TerrAfrica/SIP knowledge management systems to promote upscaling of methods piloted and refined on project sites as well as to inform its methods from lessons collated through the system.