Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought And/Or Desertification, Particularly in Africa

A/RES/61/202View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 53e Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, published in 2007.

What other versions does this mandate have?

29 versions · 1998–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/139

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/139	Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa	4,968	72%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/207	Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa	4,204	77%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/154	Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa	4,135	85%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/166	Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa	3,741	78%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/206	Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa	3,178	87%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

2 reports · 2003–2020

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2020	A/75/190	Implementation of the United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification (2010-2020) report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/69/221
2003	A/58/158	Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/57/259

What subjects does this mandate have?

18 subjects

Budget Contributions Capacity Building Coordination Within UN System Currency Desertification Drought Control Euro Financial Resources International Years Land Degradation Poverty Mitigation Programme Implementation Report Preparation Resources Mobilization Sustainable Development Technology Transfer Trust Funds Working Groups

What’s in this document?

14 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;⁸

⁸A/61/225, sect. II.

Reaffirms its resolve to support and strengthen the implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa1 to address causes of desertification and land degradation, as well as poverty resulting from land degradation, through, inter alia, the mobilization of adequate and predictable financial resources, the transfer of technology and capacity-building at all levels;

Reiterates its call upon Governments, where appropriate, in collaboration with relevant multilateral organizations, including the Global Environment Facility implementation agencies, to integrate desertification into their plans and strategies for sustainable development;

Takes note with appreciation of the outcome of the fourth replenishment of the Global Environment Facility Trust Fund,⁹ including the pledges made by the international community to the Trust Fund at the third Global Environment Facility Assembly, held in Cape Town, South Africa, on 29 and 30 August 2006, and stresses the importance of the fulfilment of the commitments;

⁹Global Environment Facility, document GEF/A.3/6. Available from www.gefweb.org.

Invites the Global Environment Facility to continue to make resources available for capacity-building activities in affected country parties implementing the Convention;

Welcomes the establishment of the ad hoc intergovernmental intersessional working group with the mandate to review the report of the Joint Inspection Unit in full and, building on the results of that review and other inputs, to develop a draft ten-year strategic plan and framework to enhance the implementation of the Convention, for submission to the Conference of the Parties to the Convention at its eighth session, and invites parties to the Convention, as well as other stakeholders, to submit views and comments to the working group in order to assist it in its work;

Invites parties to contribute on a voluntary basis either to the Supplementary Fund or in kind to cover the cost of the activities of the intergovernmental intersessional working group in order to allow it to fulfil its mandate;

Requests the Secretary-General, taking into account the institutional linkage and related administrative arrangements between the Convention secretariat and the United Nations Secretariat, to facilitate the implementation of decision 23 of the Conference of the Parties at its seventh session pertaining to the introduction of the euro as the budget and accounting currency of the Convention;Error: Reference source not found

Invites Member States to be represented at the highest appropriate level at the sessions of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention;

Expresses its appreciation for the financial contributions made by countries and other relevant stakeholders to carry out activities in the context of the celebration of the International Year of Deserts and Desertification;

Requests the secretariat of the Commission on Sustainable Development to work closely with the secretariat of the Convention in the preparations for the sixteenth and seventeenth sessions of the Commission in the areas relevant to the Convention;

Takes note of the ongoing work of the liaison group of the secretariats and offices of the relevant subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,¹⁰ the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, and the Convention on Biological Diversity,¹¹ and further encourages continuing cooperation in order to promote complementarities among the secretariats, while respecting their independent legal status;

¹⁰United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822.

¹¹Ibid., vol. 1760, No. 30619.

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-second session the sub-item entitled “Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa”;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-second session on the implementation of the present resolution.

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