Implementation of the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1981.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 1981–1985

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/39/168[A]

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1985	A/RES/39/168[A]	Implementation of the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification	—	—
1983	A/RES/37/218	Implementation of the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification	—	—
1981	A/RES/35/73	Implementation of the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification	897	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Desertification Environment Programmes of Action

What’s in this document?

16 operative paragraphs

Notes with concern the findings of the analysis made by the Administrative Committee on Coordination and the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme 128 of the constraints on the implementation of the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification, particularly the problem of insufficient financing and the increasing demands on the scarce resources of countries suffering from desertification;

Takes note with satisfaction of the decision by the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme to include pilot projects for the development and restoration of the Fouta-Djallon massif in the programme to combat desertification. in accordance with General Assembly resolution 34 / I 85, and of the initiatives taken by the Executive Director of the Programme for the implementation of those projects;

Expresses its satisfaction at the initiatives taken by the United Nations Environment Programme in

seeking to overcome those constraints through its coordinating and catalytic role in the United Nations system, its role in seeking additional means and measures for financing the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification, the convening by its Executive Director of the Consultative Group for Desertification Control, and efforts by the United Nations Sudano-Sahelian Office, on its own behalf and as a joint venture with the Programme, in combating desertification in the Sudano-Sahelian region, and invites the organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to extend their full cooperation to the Programme in its task of ensuring the implementation of the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification:

Invites the Governments of countries affected by desertification to continue to give priority, as. far as possible, to desertification-control projects in their development plans and in their requests for multilateral and bilateral financial support:

Strongly· appeals to international financial institutions, multilateral financial institutions and Governments of industrialized countries, and of those developing countries in a position to do so, to give their financial support and contribute generously to the Special Account, with a view to enhancing the implementation of the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification;

Urges -the Consultative Group for Desertification Control to develop its work further, in order to ensure the availability of the financial resources required for the implementation of the projects supported by it:

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General and the study annexed thereto of the group of high-level specialists on additional measures for financing the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification:

Requests the Secretary-General to draw the attention of donor Governments and international organizations concerned to the continuous threat of desert encroachment and to the meagre resources available for combating desertification and further requests him to mobilize the international community with a view to implementing speedily the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification;

Also requests the Secretary-General:

To prepare, in consultation with the United Nations Environment Programme and with the assistance of similar groups of experts on the subjects concerned to be convened by the Executive Director of the Programme:

Feasibility studies and concrete recommendations for the implementation of the additional means of financing deemed practicable by the Secretary-General, including those providing for a predictable flow of funds;

The detailed modalities of obtaining resources on a concessionary basis;

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A full feasibility study and working plan for the establishment of an independent operational financial corporation for the financing of desertification projects;

To report on the results of the above-mentioned studies to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session;

Calls upon the United Nations Environment Programme, in its co-ordinating and catalytic role, to institute, in co-operation with the organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, specific programmes of research and training at the national, regional and international levels, and to invite private foundations and other grant-making institutions to cooperate financially and technically in the implementation of those programmes;

Requests the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme to continue to report every other year to the General Assembly, through the Economic and Social Council, on the over-all implementation of the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification.

V. 122 See Official Records of the General Assemblv. Thirty~fifth Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/35/25). "' Ibid annex I 124 A/35/411, an~ex. 12 ' A/35/396. 126 Ibid., annex. 12 ' A/35/368.

'·'• See .\;3'i/41 I, annex. ,eel. IV

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1 ' 129 Official Records of the General Assemh/1•, lhirty,fijih Session. Supplement No, 25 (A/35/25). 11" A/35/359.

Official Record., oj the General ,lssemh/_\', 1hirty0/ijih Session. "' See resolution 35/56 above. annex. para. 41 Supplement .\o. l_'i I\ _h 2,1. raras 171 and 172.

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