The evaluation involves the use of two questionnaires, one on sustainable land management technologies (QT) and the other on sustainable land management approaches (QA).

The questionnaires ask: (i) what are the specifications of the technology, and where is it used (natural and human environment), what impact does it have and (ii) how implementation of the approach was achieved and who achieved it. Each consists of three main parts:

• general information;
• specification of Technology/Approach;
• analysis of Technology/Approach.

There are eight steps in the procedure that should be followed to enable a standardised and comprehensive evaluation of the existing and potential prevention and mitigation strategies.

• Step 1: Get familiar with the questionnaires
• Step 2. Define technologies and approaches
• Step 3: Identify resource persons and documents
• Step 4. Fill in the questionnaire
• Step 5: Enter the data into the database
• Step 6: Review
• Step 7: Quality assurance
• Step 8: Provide English version to DESIRE

Experience has shown that certain questions tend to cause confusion or difficulty and careful questionning and checking in the Review step is needed to ensure that the information collected is reliable. Description of strategies following a standardised format has enabled a database of approaches and techniques to be developed from sites world-wide. The DESIRE strategies have been added to that database.

More details ... download the guidelines, questionnaires and supporting documents
	WP3.2 Guidelines for evaluation of strategies [1.83 MB]
	English WP3.2 Technology questionnaire [1.44 MB] Türkçe WP3.2 Technology questionnaire_TR [0.93 MB) Português WP3.2 Technology questionnaire_PT [0.86 MB] Español WP3.2 Technology questionnaire_ES [0.59 MB] Français WP3.2 Technology questionnaire_FR [0.73 MB] Chinese WP3.2 Technology questionnaire_CN [0.91MB]
	English WP3.2 Approach questionnaire [0.35 MB] Türkçe WP3.2 Approach questionnaire_TR [0.68 MB] Português WP3.2 Approach Questionnaire_PT [0.30 MB] Español WP3.2 Approach Questionnaire_ES [0.18 MB] Français WP3.2 Approach Questionnaire_FR [0.19 MB] Chinese WP3.2 Approach questionnaire_CN [0.30MB]
	WP3.2 Review process (469.36 kB)
	WP3.2 Format for description of strategies (10.39 kB)

Stakeholder Workshop 1 identified a number of existing or potential strategies to combat desertification and land degradation in the each of the study sites. In the months following the workshop these strategies (technologies or approaches) were documented and evaluated in a structured and standardised way and their descriptions were entered in the WOCAT Technologies and Approaches databases in order to share the information with other DESIRE sites as well as globally.

For details of all Technologies and Approaches documented in the WOCAT Database (from the DESIRE study sites and from other sites worldwide), see

• WOCAT Technologies Database
• WOCAT Approaches Database

A total of 42 sustainable land management technologies and 20 sustainable land management approaches have been evaluated and documented by the DESIRE study sites. Click on the Name of technology or Name of approach to go directly to those descriptions in the database.

WOCAT Technologies Database

WOCAT Approaches Database