Activity 4: Testing, Validation and Upscaling of Options (applied research and development)

Testing and validation is part of the ongoing GEF projects in Chad and Tanzania. Upscaling is underway for the wildlife-livestock interaction component of the livestock in dryland management programme through GEF funding.

LEAD will continue to play a co-ordinating and backstopping role in the upscaling project on wildlife-livestock interactions and will continue to prepare proposals for funding by donors.

Depending on the prospects, LEAD may convene formulation workshops and formulate, or commission the formulation of, project documents, in the areas of watershed management in South and Central Asia or of project documents connected to drought preparedness with the Pôle Pastoral programme. A support system for decision making will be tested in the Sahel.