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Box 7.1
(continued)
4. Salt licks and improved pastures should be used in grazing areas to spread
utilization
5. Improve efforts to eradicate tsetse flies and other pests causing livestock
disease
6. Use of fire, selectively burning areas at the appropriate time.
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Conclusions
There exist policies, institutions and legal structures on desertification combating
that should be strengthened with a view to mainstreaming all levels of decision
making. This will involve strengthening the national procedures to negotiate and
implement the UNCCD. Further, there is need to build more capacity to improve
on coordination, harmonization, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of
programs and projects on combating desertification. Appropriate mechanism under
which the private sector, NGOs and CBOs may contribute to support NAP activities
will also be enhanced. Needs to strengthen programs initiated in order to reach
the grassroots, where the problems of desertification and poverty are interrelated.
Coordination and cooperation are needed to ensure the efficient utilization of
available resources.
Development of appropriate institutional structures for implementation of the
convention to combat desertification should receive priority for attention. This must
be viewed within the overall framework for operating national policies.
References and Further Reading
GoK/UNDP Report (2006) Desertification issues in Kenya -at a glance, Nairobi/New York, 53 p
GoK Report (2008) State of Environment (SoE). Report for Kenya, Govt. Printer, Nairobi, 37 p
Mugova A, Mavunga J (2000) WEI integrated development project: a success story in desertifica-
tion control UNEP Award. Desertification Control Bull (36):27-33
UNCCD Country Report (2008) National action program: a framework for combating desertifica-
tion in Kenya, UNCCD, Bonn, 78 p
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