CDE - Eastern and Southern Africa Partnership Programme

Mission statement
ESAPP’s mission is to promote sustainable land management and sustainable regional development in Eastern and Southern Africa. By means of integrated concepts and innovative tools, research and research partnerships, capacity building and development support, it aims to enhance economic development, social welfare and ecological sustainability.

Guiding principles

· Transdisciplinary approaches: promote integrated research for better understanding of ecological, socio-economic and socio-political processes and their interrelations, and enhance the participation of stakeholders in the elaboration of strategies for sustainable resource management and regional development.

· User- and demand- oriented perspectives: facilitate transfer of findings, tools and recommendations in an applicable way for a broad range of actors and institutions at different levels of planning, implementation and decision-making, and propose technologies and approaches that correspond to concrete demands from partners, institutions and implementing agencies within the region.

ESAPP is a programme of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and is executed by the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) together with its partners.

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More Information Projects Partners Publications/media Modes of Operation Contact	Mission statement ESAPP’s mission is to promote sustainable land management and sustainable regional development in Eastern and Southern Africa. By means of integrated concepts and innovative tools, research and research partnerships, capacity building and development support, it aims to enhance economic development, social welfare and ecological sustainability. Guiding principles · Transdisciplinary approaches: promote integrated research for better understanding of ecological, socio-economic and socio-political processes and their interrelations, and enhance the participation of stakeholders in the elaboration of strategies for sustainable resource management and regional development. · User- and demand- oriented perspectives: facilitate transfer of findings, tools and recommendations in an applicable way for a broad range of actors and institutions at different levels of planning, implementation and decision-making, and propose technologies and approaches that correspond to concrete demands from partners, institutions and implementing agencies within the region. ESAPP is a programme of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and is executed by the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) together with its partners.	Textbook on SLM in Eritrea is out now and available for download ESAPP Phase IV: New Deadlines for Project Submission CETRAD Laikipia District Telecast Ermis project Analysis of deforestation and degradation in Northeastern Madagascar on the basis of carbon stock modelling Building Capacity to Alleviate Human-Elephant Conflict in North Kenya



		Sustainable Land Management Sustainable Regional Development Transdisciplinary Approach

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