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

Recommendations from study sites

The following recommendations were made by study sites.

Recommendations regarding the workshop methodology:

• More exercises in the field -> to reinforce contact with local reality (Portugal); and to take into account low level of literacy (Morocco)
• Workshop duration: 3-day workshop is too long, we need more flexible instruments to capture the necessary information (Chile); 3 days was not enough as some were slow in understanding (Botswana)

Recommendations not directly related to the methodology:

• Motivate participants with a stipend to keep good working spirit (participating without any visible return is difficult for them) (Cape Verde)
• Project should move fast to implementation and not become a 'talk shop' (Botswana)
• A TV broadcast of the stakeholder meeting encouraged very much especially the study site farmers. They have had the chance to distribute their problems and thoughts across the nation (Eskisehir)