United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight Against Desertification (2010-2020)

A/RES/64/201View 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 2010.

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2014

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2014	A/69/311	Implementation of the United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification (2010-2020) report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/64/201

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Arid Zones Desertification Drought Control Financial Assistance International Decades Technical Cooperation

What’s in this document?

5 operative paragraphs

Recalls its decision to declare the decade 2010–2020 as the United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification;

Designates the secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa as the focal point of the Decade, in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme, the United Nations Development Programme, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and other relevant bodies of the United Nations, including the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat;

Invites States parties to the Convention, observers and other relevant stakeholders to organize activities to observe the Decade with the aim of raising awareness of the causes of and solutions to ongoing land degradation and desertification in the framework of the ten-year strategic plan and framework to enhance implementation of the Convention (2008–2018);Error: Reference source not found

Encourages Member States and multilateral agencies in a position to do so to support the secretariat of the Convention financially and technically, with a view to supporting special initiatives in observance of the Decade as well as other observance events and activities worldwide;

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

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