Report and synthesis of Stakeholder Workshop 1

Table of Contents

1. Authors
2. Introduction
   1. Background
   2. Objectives
3. Workshops
   1. How the methodology was used
   2. Participants
   3. Duration
4. Results from the single exercises
   1. Causes and effects of land degradation identified through the water and biomass cycles
   2. Local indicators
   3. Stakeholders' influence on, and motivation for sustainable land management
   4. Assessment of locally applied technologies and approaches
   5. Outline of an overall strategy for sustainable land management
5. Workshop evaluation
   1. Stakeholder involvement and participation
   2. Atmosphere
   3. Methodology
   4. Mutual learning
   5. Objectives and results
   6. Recommendations from study sites
6. Overall conclusions
   1. Have the objectives been attained?
   2. Strengths, weaknesses and challenges
   3. Limitations and problems
7. Annex: List of stakeholder workshop reports

Duration

Based on the experience that (especially external) stakeholders have difficulties attending a more than 1 day workshop, the WP 3.1 methodology suggests to work during the first two days with local stakeholders only on the specific conditions, problems and potentials of the local context, and to include external participants, who can bring in a more regional perspective, on the third day.

Study sites that used the WP 3.1 methodology organised (see also Table 3):

• 3-day workshop: 9 study sites
• 2-day workshop: 2 study sites
• 1-day workshop: 1 study sites

Table 4 shows that different study sites have chosen different modes of working with local and external stakeholders together or separately. As not all workshop reports include respective information, 'n.a.' means that no specific info was provided.

Table 4: Duration of workshops and who participated when

WS = Workshop L = local participants E = external participants