6th NENA Plenary meeting, 18 - 19 November 2020, virtual meeting Mr. Muhammad Manhal Alzoubi

1. Pillar 2
FUTURE ACTIVITIES
Muhammad Manhal
Alzoubi

2. Pillar 2 plan (Encourage investment, technical cooperation,
policy, education, awareness and extension in soils)
• 2.1. Promote investment in soil rehabilitation/restoration
and management
• 2.2. Enhance the role of policy, civil societies and soil
institutions to support soil management
• 2.3. Stimulate soil awareness among the civil society and
non-soil specialists
• 2.4. Capacity development in soil related topics, promote
soil science in education and extension

3. Lunching the policy brief series "The multi-faced
role of soil in the Near East and North Africa“

4. policy briefs

5. Translation of soil material in a local languages

6. Another activity to be promoted by the
GSP Secretariat in 2019 is SoiLex

7. Create a NENA Facebook page

8. WhatsApp group was established
At the purpose of
facilitating regional
discussions, a WhatsApp
group was established
and the decision to have
Pillar’s Chairs to
regularly talk on Skype
was made.

9. Future activities (proposal)
• Going on policy briefs

10. Future activities
• Translation of soil
material in a local
languages.

11. Future activities
• Increase social awareness on soil
through media, radio, press,
etc.: more care to NENA
facebook page and sending the
countries activities in field of soil

12. we need to adapt this
programme in NENA countries
we need to disseminate SOIL
DOCTOR in NENA countries
Future activities

13. Soil Doctor
• training of Soil Doctors’ trainers
• training countries in developing their own reagents
for the soil testing kit (STK)
• developing soil testing kits to define different soil
specificities

14. Thanks for
your attention