Near East and North Africa Soil Partnership
The Near East and North African (NENA) Soil Partnership was established in April 2012 to enhance collaboration between member countries in the region. The partnership aims to facilitate knowledge and data sharing, overcome the challenges of food security, increased carbon sequestration, land degradation, and encourage environment protection and sustainable soil management practices to mitigate and adapt to a changing climate. In this framework, national needs and priorities are translated into regional actions through the NENA implementation plan, which is revised at the yearly NENA plenary meetings.
List of countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, and Palestine.
See the list of GSP national focal points, appointed by national governments to represent each country and coordinate the communication between the GSP Secretariat and national competent ministries and institutions.
Governance
Chair: Mr. Rachid Moussadek, Morocco
Vice Chair for North Africa: Mr. Abdelmjid Zouahri (chair of NENALAB), Morocco
Vice Chair for the Near East: Mr. Hamed Al Thuhli, Oman
Regional facilitator: Ms. Isabel Luotto (GSP secretariat)
Five Working Groups were established for the five GSP pillars of actions and are chaired as follows:
Pillar 1 Chair: Ms. Rafla Attia (Tunisia)
Pillar 2 Chair: Ms. Leila ben Dhiab ben Daya (Tunisia)
Pillar 3 Chair: Mr. Bahram Taheri (Iran)
Pillar 4 Chair: Mr. Rachid Moussadek (Morocco)
Pillar 5 Chair: Mr. Imad Ghanma (Palestine)
Recent events and trainings in the NENA region
Annual meetings | Details |
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2023 | A Regional Conference towards Healthy Soils for the Near East and North Africa, Details of the event | Agenda | Report | Recordings |
2022 Virtual | Extraordinary session of the NENA meeting, 3 August 2022, virtual meeting Details of the event | Agenda | Presentations | Report | Recordings |
2022 Virtual | Seventh NENA Plenary meeting, 22 - 23 March 2022, virtual meeting Details of the event | Agenda | Presentations | Report | Recordings: 1st day and 2nd day |
2020 Virtual | Sixth NENA Plenary meeting, 18 - 19 November 2020, virtual meeting Details of the event | Agenda | Presentations | Report | Meeting recordings | Group picture |
2019 Cairo | Fifth NENA Plenary meeting, 1 - 2 April 2019, Cairo, Egypt Details of the event | Agenda | Presentations | Report | Photogallery |
2018 Rome | Fourth NENA plenary meeting, 13 Jun 2018, Rome, Italy Details of the event | Agenda | Report | Presentations | Photogallery |
2015 Amman | Third NENA plenary meeting, 1 - 3 Jun 2015, Amman Jordan Details of the event | Agenda | Amman communiqué 2015 | Report | List of participants | Presentations | Photogallery |
2014 Amman | Second NENA plenary meeting, 17 - 19 Jun 2014, Amman Jordan Details of the event | Agenda | Amman recommendation | Report | Presentations | Photogallery |
2012 Amman | Inception workshop for the NENA Soil Partnership, 1 - 5 April 2012, Amman Jordan Details of the event | Agenda | Amman communiqué | Presentations | Inception workshop | Photogallery |
Trainings | Details |
2022 online | NENA TCP | Training on Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration and Modelling & Mapping, 21-25 Feb 2022 Agenda | Presentations | Recordings: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 and Day 4 |
2018 Tehran | Digital soil organic mapping training, 20 - 24 Jan 2018, Tehran, Iran Details of the event | Agenda | Presentations | Photogallery |
2016 Rabat | Digital soil mapping and soil carbon modelling training, 10 - 14 Oct 2016, Rabat, Morocco |
2015 Amman | Digital soil mapping training, 29 Nov - 7 Dec 2015, Amman, Jordan Details of the event | Agenda | Report | List of participants | Training material | Presentations | Photogallery |
Others | Details |
2022 online | NENALAB: Regional Soil Laboratory Network for NENA: Third meeting, online, 12-13 October 2022 |
2018 Tunis | Workshop on the implementation of the voluntary guidelines on Sustainable Soil Management (SSM) in the Maghreb region, 13-15 Nov, 2018, Tunis, Tunisia |
2018 Tehran | Workshop on the implementation of the voluntary guidelines on Sustainable Soil Management (SSM) in the Islamic Republic of Iran
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