There are numerous organizations that cooperate with the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) on capacity building to fight desertification, land degradation and drought in countries around the world.

The creation, expansion, correct application and sharing of knowledge, skills and techniques is essential to the result oriented implementation of the UNCCD and its 10-year strategy and the achievement of achieve land degradation neutrality (LDN).

For the UNCCD implementation to succeed, organizational and institutional capacities in the following areas must be created, addressed and strengthened:

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Capacity Building Marketplace is an exchange platform for those seeking and offering knowledge, training and opportunities related to the UNCCD’s mandate regarding the issues of capacity building. These resources are helpful for anyone working toward land degradation neutrality (LDN).

The Marketplace is created for you and by you!

The Capacity Building Marketplace quickly and easily connects capacity related needs and solutions concerning the implementation of the UNCCD.

The Marketplace helps individuals and organizations find and offer current learning, funding, and job opportunities in one place. It further invites stakeholders to contribute relevant content to network with interested parties.

Accomplishing your projects requires inter alia the involvement and support of others including  organizations and individuals willing to help in its implementation in one way or the other and you having a necessary and efficaciously functioning network.

Under this section, the UNCCD - Capacity Building Marketplace (UNCCD-CBM) provides you with valuable resources that you may use to assist in the realization of your project.

At the Capacity Building Marketplace you can search our databases with opportunities for volunteerism, scholarships, internships, e-learning, partnerships, training courses and others related to Capacity Building within the framework of sustainable land management. But you can also add your offerings to the Marketplace and share your capacity building needs through the same.

Dr. Ahmet Şenyaz, a forest engineer and an advisor to the Ministry of Forest and Water of the Republic of Turkey, recently called at the Marketplace where he met Head of the Team, Dr. Richard Byron-Cox. Dr. Şenyaz who holds a PhD in forest fire economics, was for eight years Chief of Turkey’s Research and Development Department of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry. He now coordinates the activities of Turkey’s National Working Group on Combating Desertification and Land Degradation.

Teaching about desertification in the classroom is an important contribution to raising awareness and leveraging knowledge related to sustainable land management.

To support the teachers in this, the UNCCD secretariat is engaged in various activities to help build their capacity.

On this page we offer an overview of various resources available for educators. These provide you with materials to use in your classrooms, and links to training courses that help you develop your professional skills as an educator.

The Capacity Building Marketplace (CBM) was one of the main highlights of the UNCCD’s stand at the just concluded Global Festival of Action for Sustainable Development held last week at the Bonn World Conference Center.

Here the CBM team shared with participants of the festival information of the great opportunities and possibilities offered on the Marketplace; invited the young visitors to become involved in the sustainable development process; and explained the importance of achieving Land Degradation Neutrality to the realization of the SDGs in general.

The COPs and the process of Capacity Building in the UNCCD throughout the years

PHOTO COMPETITION

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Rules

Capacity Building Marketplace (CBM) is pleased to announce the official launching of the 2018 Photo Competition. You are invited to submit, using this form, your best captures related to the theme of the contest,

“Have you been affected by land degradation? Show us how!”

Winners will receive:

The Capacity Building Marketplace (CBM) presented the UNCCD Secretariat's exposition at the recently concluded Subsidiary Bodies Session 48 (SB48) of the United Nations Climate Change (UNCC) held at the World Conference Center in Bonn, Germany, from 30th of April to the 4th of May.

The Capacity Building Marketplace (CBM) of the Secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) held a tremendous activity on 15th of June 2018 at St. Georges International School of Cologne, Germany in celebration of World Day to Combat Desertification (WDCD), which is actually commemorated on 17 June every year.  

On Thursday the 5th July 2018, the UNCCD Secretariat, represented by its Capacity Building Marketplace (CBM) hosted students from the University of Bonn, completing the Masters in Agricultural and Food Economics (AFECO).

We are very pleased to present all 20 pictures that made it into the final round of our 2018 Photo Competition. The final winners were determined by you through public voting held over the last several weeks. We again thank all participants, both competitors and voters for making this exercise the tremendous success it was.

In the following, the affected entities of the 2017-2018 UNCCD Reporting Process can find prime exemplars of how a comprehensive report with regard to all five Strategic Objectives looks like.

Since there are three different types of countries reporting to the UNCCD, the information below shows three different reports (click on titles to open PDFs).

The Capacity Building Marketplace (CBM) organizes global competitions to challenge the creativity and innovation of the general public concerning and themes related to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), with the final aim of raise awareness on inter alia:

On Thursday the 11th of October 2018, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Secretariat, represented by its Capacity Building Marketplace (CBM), hosted once again, students from Bonn University, taking the Masters in Agriculture and Food Economics (AFECO). 

Last 20th of October 2018, the UNCCD as well as other UN organizations present in Bonn, organized the UN Day which took place in Bonn’s Markt Platz. This year, the event had the theme "Leaving no one behind". 

For this event, the UNCCD - CBM prepared a list of activities involving the general public of all ages.

The First UNCCD Capacity Building Training Fair was held at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC) in Georgetown, Guyana. The Training Fair was specifically designed to address the main issues that the UNCCD focuses on, and to strengthen the capacities of the Parties so that they can undertake actions to tackle these challenges. One of the main objectives of this first Fair was to help decision-makers and UNCCD stakeholders increase their capacities both individually and institutionally. 

On 12 April the Team of the Capacity Building Marketplace (CBM) visited the high school students of the CJD Christophorusschule in Königswinter, Germany. The main purpose of this visit was to raise awareness about the importance of engaging the youth in sustainable development and the value of the land to our lives.

On Tuesday the 21st of May 2019, the UNCCD Secretariat, represented by its Capacity Building Marketplace (CBM) hosted students from the University of Cologne pursuing the Master in Environmental Sciences. The visitors were officially welcomed by UNCCD Deputy Executive Secretary, Dr. Pradeep Monga who also gave a general introduction to the UN system and to the UNCCD.