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

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Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 100e Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, published in 2000.

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?

8 subjects

Budget Contributions Desertification Drought Control Environmental Agreements Financial Assistance Funds Special Accounts Trust Funds

What’s in this document?

27 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the convening of the third session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa, at Recife, Brazil, from 15 to 26 November 1999;

Calls upon all States and other actors to contribute effectively to the successful outcome of the third session of the Conference of the Parties;

Also calls upon all remaining countries that are not yet parties to the Convention to ratify or accede to the Convention as soon as possible;

Emphasizes the importance of implementing the provisions of the Convention at all levels, including the general provisions and obligations of affected and developed countries;

Notes with satisfaction that the Convention secretariat was relocated to Bonn, Germany, at the end of January 1999 and that it has begun functioning as the permanent secretariat of the Convention;

Notes that the Global Mechanism started its activities early in 1999, that it has not yet begun to support fully, inter alia, enabling activities under the Convention, and that resources have been made available to it, and invites the Global Mechanism to develop effectively all its activities and support under the Convention;

Also notes the decision of the Conference of the Parties at its third session related to the first review of policies, operational modalities and activities of the Global Mechanism,⁴ and, in this context, urges donors, international organizations and the Global Mechanism, within its mandate, to support the preparation of national reports;

⁴ICCD/COP(3)/20/Add.1, decision 9/COP.3.

Welcomes the steps being taken by affected developing country parties to the Convention, with the assistance of international organizations, to implement the Convention and the efforts being made to promote the participation of all actors of society in the elaboration of national, subregional and regional action programmes to combat desertification;

Also welcomes the efforts made by affected African country parties, developed country parties, international organizations and non-governmental organizations to produce and to submit reports for consideration by the Conference of the Parties at its third session;

Requests the Global Mechanism, in conformity with the provisions of the Convention and the relevant decisions taken by the Conference of the Parties at its first, second and third sessions, to carry out effectively its mandate of assisting affected developing country parties in the implementation of the Convention;

Calls upon the secretariat of the Convention and the Global Mechanism to cooperate fully in carrying out their activities, as provided for in their respective mandates;

Welcomes the financial support already provided on a voluntary basis by some countries, and urges Governments, the private sector and all relevant organizations, including non-governmental organizations, to make or to continue to make voluntary contributions to the Global Mechanism to enable it to implement effectively and fully its mandate;

Also welcomes the contributions paid by some country parties, and calls upon all parties that have not done so to pay promptly and in full the contributions required for the core budget of the Convention envisaged in the financial rules of the Conference of the Parties,⁵ so as to ensure continuity in the cash flow required to finance the ongoing work of the Conference, the subsidiary bodies, the permanent secretariat and the Global Mechanism;

⁵ICCD/COP(1)/11/Add.1, decision 2/COP.1, annex, para. 14.

Further welcomes the initial contribution made by the International Fund for Agricultural Development to the Special Resources for the Convention to Combat Desertification Finance Account, and invites the Fund to make available as soon as possible the remaining balance to the Account, in conformity with its pledge made at the first session of the Conference of the Parties in Rome;

Invites all other relevant organizations and programmes, in particular the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank and other members of the Facilitation Committee of the Global Mechanism, also to make contributions to enable the Global Mechanism to support successfully the implementation of the Convention;

Notes with satisfaction that the Secretary-General, in conformity with paragraph 11 of resolution 52/198, closed, on 31 December 1998, the Trust Fund and the Special Voluntary Fund established under the provisions of General Assembly resolution 47/188 of 22 December 1992 and transferred the amounts remaining in the Trust Fund and in the Special Voluntary Fund, respectively, to the Supplementary Fund and the Special Fund established on 1 January 1999, in accordance with the relevant paragraphs of the financial rules of the Conference of the Parties;⁶

⁶Ibid., paras. 7–11.

Calls upon Governments, multilateral financial institutions, regional development banks, regional economic integration organizations and all other interested organizations, as well as non-governmental organizations and the private sector, to contribute generously to the General Fund, the Supplementary Fund and the Special Fund, in accordance with the relevant paragraphs of the financial rules of the Conference of the Parties;5

Decides to include in the calendar of conferences and meetings for the biennium 2000-2001 the sessions of the Conference of the Parties and its subsidiary bodies, including the fourth and fifth ordinary sessions of the Conference of the Parties and the meetings of its subsidiary bodies;

Notes with appreciation that some affected developing countries and one region have adopted their national and regional action programmes, and therefore calls upon the international community to contribute to the implementation of those programmes through, inter alia, the conclusion of partnership agreements, relevant bilateral and multilateral cooperation programmes that are available to implement the Convention and contributions from non-governmental organizations and the private sector;

Invites affected developing countries that have not yet adopted their national action programmes, and, where appropriate, regional and subregional action programmes, to accelerate the process of elaboration and adoption of their action programmes with a view to finalizing them no later than the end of 2000;

Calls upon the international community, in particular the developed countries and the United Nations system, and invites the multilateral financial institutions, the private sector and all other interested actors to support the efforts of affected developing countries in the processes of elaborating and implementing action programmes to combat desertification, including, as appropriate, interregional programmes and platforms of cooperation, by providing them with financial resources and other forms of assistance;

Welcomes the progress made in producing a draft additional regional implementation annex to the Convention for the countries of Eastern and Central Europe with a view to adopting it at the fourth session of the Conference of the Parties, and invites those countries to continue their efforts towards acceding to the Convention;

Encourages the conferences of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,⁷ the Convention on Biological Diversity⁸ and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa, to examine further appropriate opportunities and measures to strengthen the complementarities and to improve scientific assessments of ecological linkages among the three conventions;

⁷A/AC.237/18 (Part II)/Add.1 and Corr.1, annex I.

⁸See United Nations Environment Programme, Convention on Biological Diversity (Environmental Law and Programme Activity Centre), June 1992.

Also encourages the secretariats of various environmental and environment-related conventions and other international organizations, with full respect for the statutes of the respective convention secretariats and the autonomous decision-making prerogatives of the conferences of the parties to the conventions concerned, to strengthen cooperation with a view to facilitating progress in their implementation at the international, regional, subregional and national levels;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-fifth session on the implementation of the present resolution, as well as on the outcome of the third session of the Conference of the Parties;

Reminds the States parties to the Convention that, in accordance with General Assembly decision 52/445 of 18 December 1997, beginning in 2000, the conferences of the parties to the conventions signed at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development or established as a result of the Conference, as well as other conventions relating to sustainable development, shall take all appropriate measures to avoid convening their sessions and those of their subsidiary bodies during the sessions of the General Assembly;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fifth 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”.

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