DESIRE partners led, contributed to or commented on the following White Papers.

• Integrated methods for monitoring and assessing desertification/land degradation processes and drivers. Working Group 1
• Monitoring and assessing land rehabilitation and sustainable land management. Working Group 2
• Monitoring and assessment of Desertification and land degradation: knowledge management and economic and social drivers. Working Group 3

Although it is impossible to know the role our discussion paper played, this recommendation was adopted. The Dryland Science for Development (DSD) Consortium have been charged with developing this synthesis, which will be reviewed at a scientific conference immediately prior to the next COP and then feed directly to policy-makers via the CST.

One project member has been invited to join Working Group III that will write the synthesis titled "impacts of economic and social drivers and knowledge management on monitoring and evaluation of land degradation" and another now been commissioned to develop a Communication Strategy for the UNCCD Secretariat, and is working closely with colleagues across the DESIRE project on this work.

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The framework is divided into four generic themes: (i) establishing land degradation and SLM context and sustainability goals; (ii) identifying, evaluating and selecting SLM strategies; (iii) selecting land degradation and SLM indicators and (iv) applying SLM options and monitoring land degradation and progress towards sustainability goals.

This approach incorporates multiple knowledge sources and types (including land manager perspectives) from local to national and international scales. In doing so, it aims to provide outputs for policy-makers and land managers that have the potential to enhance the sustainability of land management in drylands, from the field scale to the region, and to national and international levels. The paper draws on operational experience from across the DESIRE project to break the four themes into a series of methodological steps, and provides examples of the range of tools and methods that can be used to operationalise each of these steps.

This report is adapted from the following paper: Reed MS, Buenemann, M, Atlhopheng J, Akhtar-Schuster M, Bachmann F, Bastin G, Bigas H, Chanda R, Dougill AJ, Essahli W, Evely AC, Fleskens L, Geeson N, Glass JH, Hessel R, Holden J, Ioris A, Kruger B, Liniger HP, Mphinyane W, Nainggolan D, Perkins J, Raymond CM, Ritsema CJ, Schwilch G, Sebego R, Seely M, Stringer LC, Thomas R, Twomlow S, Verzandvoort S (2011) Cross-scale monitoring and assessment of land degradation and sustainable land management: a methodological framework for knowledge management. Land Degradation & Development 22: 261-271. An earlier version of the report was originally published as part of the Dryland Science for Development Consortium’s Working Group 3, presented at the first UNCCD CST Scientific Conference at COP-9, 22-24 September 2009 in Buenos Aires, Argentina

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	WP5.4 A methodological approach and modelling tool to evaluate desertification remediation options (Report 97 D5.4.2 May12) [0.43 MB]
	Land Degradation & Development 22: 261–271(2011) Published online 25 January 2011 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/ldr.1087 Cross-scale monitoring and assessment of land degradation and sustainable land management: A methodological framework for knowledge management