Mainstreaming Sustainable Land Management for Large-Scale Impact in the Grazing Lands of Limpopo and Northern Cape provinces in South Africa

The project has four outcomes which will contribute to the reduction of land degradation through improved SLM and strengthen, through mainstreaming, inclusive and equitable decision making towards scaling up SLM in target areas in Limpopo and Northern Cape. Outcome 1 will develop a platform by which the scale up of improved information management and knowledge and capacity development, as it pertains to SLM, can be implemented at a larger scale. Outputs will support the development of regionally specific capacity in SLM. Outcome 2 will improve the transparency of local approaches and align objectives of government, communal governance structures and land users through the development of a variety of formalised mechanisms. Mechanisms include community level implementation plans, formalisation of community level Rangeland/Biodiversity Stewardship Agreements and local Sustainable Land Management Plans that facilitate landscape level scale up of activities conducted at target sites and support the implementation of improved SLM on key rangelands in the regions. Outcome 3 will provide markets and finance for scale up through a three-part approach. Part one will be to invest project funding into community validated priority value chains that will enable improved SLM and allow for the development and additional penetration of communities in SLM related value chains. Part one will be to validate a suite of integrated innovative finance solutions towards establishment into the two landscapes. Part two will be to make investments into validated priority value chains through targeted investment and establishment of mechanism that incentivises ongoing SLM through market access and unlocking opportunities towards developing financial capacity and partnerships. Part three will be to provide opportunities for microfinance through small grants programmes and financial capacity training and business case development towards submitting investment proposals to established financial Output 4 will inform SLM related national policies and processes based on the results and best practices from the implementation of the project actions under the first, second and third components. Component 4 supports dialogue with key stakeholder groups at national and local levels to develop