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White Paper of the DSD [Dryland Science for Development Consortium] Working Group 3. Partenaires : Association of DesertNet International ; United Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health ; Dryland Science for Development Consortium.; International audience; Inadequate access to data and its harmonisation and dissemination, institutional constraints, and insufficient public finances all limit local and national capacities to monitor and assess desertification and land degradation. Furthermore, monitoring and assessment is often hindered by a lack of inter-departmental and sectoral communication and insufficient information on the costs associated with prevention and reversal of land degradation. This White Paper identifies the challenges and bottlenecks in the monitoring and assessment of desertification and land degradation in the context of knowledge management, institutions and economics. It discusses the challenges of integrating knowledge management and its practices into monitoring and assessment at various levels, and the need for doing so. It also outlines some success stories on knowledge management at the local level. This White Paper further looks at the economic and social drivers of desertification and land degradation, and how policy mechanisms are needed in order to address these issues and produce more sustainable outcomes. The findings of this Paper were presented at the First UNCCD Scientific Conference held during the COP-9 in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 22-24 September, 2009.

Évaluation MOISA - auteur hors Unité au moment de la publication; National audience; Economically and socially speaking, water governance in developing countries is a major issue identified as a priority on the international agenda. This article is divided in three steps. First, we characterise the governance of water resources, by stressing the hybrid nature of the regulation rules used. Then, relying on examples of irrigated areas located in developing countries, we illustrate the difficulties arising from the different regulation rules adopted in water resources management. Lastly, we use the notion of global public goods to argue on the need of international cooperation issues relating to the governance of water.; La gouvernance des ressources en eau dans les pays en développement constitue un enjeu majeur identifié comme prioritaire sur l’agenda politique international. La notion de gouvernance des ressources en eau est caractérisée, en soulignant le caractère hybride des modes de régulation. À travers plusieurs exemples de périmètres irrigués, les difficultés rencontrées par ces différents modes de régulation mobilisés dans la gestion des ressources en eau sont ensuite illustrées. Enfin, à partir de la notion de bien public mondial, les enjeux d’une coopération internationale sur ce sujet sont discutés.