Global Land Outlook: UNCCD commissions working papers and policy briefs on land restoration

Established in 1994, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is the sole legally binding international agreement linking environment and development to sustainable land management.

The Global Land Outlook (GLO), the UNCCD’s flagship publication released every 4 years, is a state-of-the-art strategic communications product providing a transformative vision and framework for land management practice, policy and planning at global, regional and national scales.

The UNCCD is now commissioning a small number of working papers for the second edition of the GLO around the following themes: youth, urban-rural interface, tenure & resource rights, perverse incentives, gender and food system resilience.

GLO2 will primarily aim to support the effective implementation of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, being led by FAO and UNEP (https://www.decadeonrestoration.org/).

In addition to providing substantive content and diverse policy perspectives for GLO2, working papers are expected to compile innovative case studies, on-the-ground examples and good practices from a wide variety of sources and countries. GLO2 will be launched at the UNCCD’s 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to be held in September or October 2021.

The terms of reference are:

• Consultant to produce a GLO working paper and policy brief on youth and land restoration
• Consultant to produce a GLO working paper and policy brief on the urban-rural interface and land restoration
• Consultant to produce a GLO working paper and policy brief on tenure, resource rights and land restoration
• Consultant to produce a GLO working paper and policy brief on perverse incentives and land restoration
• Consultant to produce a GLO working paper and policy brief on gender and land restoration
• Consultant to produce a GLO working paper and policy brief on food system resilience and land restoration

The deadline for applications is 30 May 2020.