The French Desertification Scientific Committee (CSFD) and the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute in Montpellier (IAMM) are organizing a research workshop/seminar on Policies, Programmes and Projects to Fight Desertification, in cooperation with the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Secretariat and its Global Mechanism. The workshop will provide an opportunity for a broad variety of different actors fighting desertification to clarify controversial points and improve the evaluation process to make actions more effective. The workshop intends to contribute at the international level to the preparation of the second UNCCD Scientific Conference and to promote French expertise within an international framework.
dates: 29-30 June 2011 location: Montpellier, France contact: Simone Quatrini phone: +39 06 5459 2154 e-mail: s.quatrini@global-mechanism.org www: http://www.global-mechanism.org/news–events/events/research-workshop-on-evaluating-policies-programmes-and-projects-to-fight-desertification/