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:

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.

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.

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:

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