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	Advancing Deserts Forcing People to Move
		The JIU report, which was critical of funding for the UNCCD, was presented to the seventh conference of parties to the convention last October in Nairobi.
		"UNCCD is the chosen international treaty to combine such essential objectives as the maintenance of the drylands ecosystems that are home to a large proportion of the world poor, the protection of soil fertility and the promotion of sustainable water and land management practices," said Diallo.
		He said UNCCD approved budgets from assessed contributions for 2002-2003 and 2004-2005 were about less than 30 percent of those of the UNFCCC (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, based in Bonn), and also less than those of CBD (Convention on Biological Diversity, hosted by Montreal).
	www.commondreams.org /headlines06/0626-03.htm (1296 words)

	Earth Negotiations Bulletin
		The UNCCD was adopted on 17 June 1994, opened for signature in October 1994, and entered into force on 26 December 1996.
		The UNCCD recognizes the physical, biological and socioeconomic aspects of desertification, the importance of redirecting technology transfer so that it is demand-driven, and the involvement of local communities in combating desertification and land degradation.
		The core of the UNCCD is the development of national, subregional and regional action programmes by national governments, in cooperation with donors, local communities and NGOs.
	www.iisd.ca /vol04/enb04175e.html (15210 words)

	UNCCD Conference of the Parties (COP)
		The Fifth Conference of the Parties of the UNCCD was held in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1 to 12 October 2001.
		Both the efforts of the GM to fulfill its mandate and its increasing responsibilities, were recognised and accordingly, the Conference approved a budget increase for the GM of 33 percent for both 2002 and 2003.
		This goal implies that the objectives of the UNCCD are integrated into both the planning and strategic development frameworks of developing country parties and the development cooperation strategies of donor organizations.
	www.gm-unccd.org /English/Events/COP.htm (1339 words)

	IFAP - Issues and Forums
		This is the first time that a President of the International Federation of Agricultural Producers has addressed a UNCCD event, and so for us this session marks an important opening up of the Convention to input by farmers.
		UNCCD needs to listen to these communities because they know better than anyone else their own environment.
		The UNCCD is no doubt aware of this, and the Convention does provide a more appropriate development framework.
	www.ifap.org /issues/cop6speech.html (1532 words)

	UNV, UNCCD, UNDP engage Cape Verdean volunteers to fight desertification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		UNV, UNCCD, UNDP engage Cape Verdean UN Volunteers
		"With UNCCD and UNV both on board, we are confident that we will see tangible results to help ensure poverty reduction and environmental sustainability -- the first and seventh Millennium Development Goals," he added.
		The UNCCD was adopted as a follow up to the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development and came into force in 1996.
	www.unv.org /infobase/news_releases/2003/03_05_08CPV_UNCCD.htm (712 words)

	Print news - IPS Inter Press Service
		Desertification has been the catalyst for a number of conflicts in arid lands in recent years, and the situation is set to get worse as burgeoning populations compete for diminishing vital resources such as land and water, says the paper.
		The UNCCD secretariat -- along with the secretariats of the better known UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) -- is based in Bonn.
		In view of this, the UNCCD executive secretary said, the World Day to Combat Desertification is a reminder that desertification is not a fatality.
	www.ipsnews.net /print.asp?idnews=33617 (859 words)

	Planet's Voice ARTICLE: UNCCD says sustainable development will become a reality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		But Mr Boulhardouf, who is the UNCCD external relations and public affairs co-ordinator, said he did not think this would happen.
		The UNCCD has taken the unprecedented step of designating a separate committee to focus on this work and the Committee to Review and Implement the Convention (Cric) meets every year as opposed to the convention’s bi-annual gatherings.
		The UNCCD is furthermore the only body of its kind where an Open Dialogue Session has been instituted where NGOs can interface directly with governments, he noted.
	www.planets-voice.org /_interface/news.shtml?x=943 (1071 words)

	GLOBAL CONVENTIONS RELATED TO FORESTS - Unasylva 206
		In accordance with the spirit of UNCCD, CCICCD published the China country paper to combat desertification (www.din.net.cn/din/book1/luqi1.html) in 1996, and a distribution map of China's desertified land area with a scale of 1:2.5 million was produced.
		To strengthen implementation of UNCCD, the Secretariat of CCICCD began in 1996 to draft the Law of Combating Desertification.
		UNCCD has promoted international cooperation in combating desertification, which is important to China.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/003/Y1237e/y1237e10.htm (2708 words)

	ENVIRO NEWS, June-July 1999
		Desertification is a phenomenon which is concerning the overall degradation of the land and land use in the dryland regions (arid, semi-arid and sub-humid).
		In order to implement the objectives of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification in the country, a National Steering Committee under the Chairmanship of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF) is being constituted.
		The UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has recommended close cooperation in different regions of the world such as Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean and Northern Mediterranean and to prepare action programmes drawn from experiences from other countries of a Region.
	www.members.tripod.com /envisjnu/envnews/jun-jul99/unccd.html (789 words)

	Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary, Tiempo - Issue 50, Analysing the UNCCD COP-6
		First, the relationship between the GEF and the UNCCD is not on the same status as that of “sister conventions” such as the UNFCCC or the Convention on Biological Diversity.
		The UNCCD is dominated by African countries, and while this is not entirely inappropriate, it has previously meant that other regions also experiencing problems addressed by the UNCCD have not received as much attention.
		The next Conference of the Parties to the UNCCD is scheduled to be held in Bonn, Germany, in October 2005.
	www.cru.uea.ac.uk /tiempo/floor1/news/issue50/t50a5.htm (1642 words)

	Choike - Women and desertification
		The Secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is collecting stories from local communities that speak of experiences on women’s role in combating desertification.
		The stories will be compiled into a leaflet(s) for use in public information material and campaigns and posted on the website, as case studies that specifically show the role of women in combating desertification.
		They will be kept in UNCCD's databank as well to be used for all future references when discussing women and desertification.
	www.choike.org /nuevo_eng/informes/2054.html (168 words)

	Vanuatu takes part in the UNCCD
		Ernest Bani, have attended the sixth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) that was held in Havana, Republic of Cuba, from 25th August to 5th September 2003.
		The UNCCD was held in Havana, Republic of Cuba from 25th August to 5th September 2003.
		Twelve of the fourteen countries from the Pacific region which are parties to the UNCCD attended the conference.
	www.news.vu /en/news/environment/710.shtml (817 words)

	Global Mechanism
		The Global Mechanism was established by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) to promote actions leading to the mobilization and channelling of substantial financial resources to affected developing countries (Article 21, UNCCD).
		At the First Conference of the Parties to the UNCCD held in Rome from 29 September to 15 October 1997, IFAD was designated to house the Global Mechanism in Decision 24/COP.1.
		As a result, UNCCD financing depends to a large extent on ensuring that existing development resources are allocated more effectively and efficiently to addressing land degradation.
	www.ifad.org /gm/index.htm (775 words)

	EO News: Tracking Desertification with Satellites Highlighted at UN Conference - October 24, 2005
		Delegates from the 170-plus signatories to the Convention currently gathered in Nairobi have been briefed by ESA representatives and national partners on how satellites are being used to track desertification in Europe.
		The UNCCD was established in 1994, in the wake of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro which recognized desertification as a major social and environmental problem.
		While DesertWatch is for the moment focused on what UNCCD classes as ‘Annex IV’ countries—meaning the Northern Mediterranean—the potential exists for the same approach to be utilized more widely in support of Convention activities.
	eobglossary.gsfc.nasa.gov /Newsroom/MediaAlerts/2005/2005102420856.html (663 words)

	GBF
		The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is the key legally binding universal instrument to address desertification and land degradation in arid environments.
		The objective of this session of the GBF is to provide a platform to advance the international debate on sustaining livelihoods of local people through the conservation and sustainable use of drylands and its natural resources.
		UNCCD Secretariat: Importance of GBF for the UNCCD COP6, by Hama Arba Diallo
	www.gbf.ch /present_session_old.asp?no=35&lg=EN (929 words)

	UNCCD COP 7
		The COP is the supreme governing body of the Convention adopted 11 years ago to tackle the problem of desertification, or degradation of land resulting in loss of soil fertility and desert-like conditions in once fertile agricultural dryland regions.
		Figures released by the UNCCD Secretariat indicate that the livelihoods of about one billion people, almost 20 per cent of the total global population, is now at risk from the effects of degraded lands.
		The UNCCD is one of three Conventions - or treaties - that emerged from the landmark United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, The Earth Summit, held in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro in 1992.
	www.inwent.org /themen_reg/iij/reports/06644/index.en.shtml (12321 words)

	Headline News The Rising Nepal (Daily)
		Kathmandu, Dec. 11: It is estimated that Nepal loses over 240 million cubic meters of top fertile soil annually as a result of which 10,000 hectares of land in the trans-Himalayan region have started showing signs of desertification and almost half of the population face food shortage for 3-6 months in a year.
		Speaking on the occasion, Minister for Population and Environment P.L. Singh said that in order to mitigate the problems of land degradation and natural resource depletion, the government has promoted people-centered natural resources management activities to benefit the people who are the primary victims of land degradation and emerging water scarcity.
		Minister Singh also said that Nepal sees the UNCCD as extremely relevant to the country as it focuses on poverty alleviation through partnership approach and addresses land degradation problems so that the fertility of the soil is retained.
	www.nepalnews.com.np /contents/englishdaily/trn/2001/dec/dec12/index.htm (3161 words)

	ENB @ UNCCD COP-7 October 17-28 2005, Nairobi, Kenya
		UNCCD Executive Secretary Hama Arba Diallo made some closing remarks, thanking participants for their contribution to the process.
		Participants to the contact group on the report of the Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) has reached consensus on the draft decision, while the contact groups on programme and budget and on the regional coordination units (RCU) are still considering draft decisions.
		Plenary was suspended to allow for informal consultations on the programme and budget, the regional coordination units, and the report of the Joint Inspection Unit.
	www.iisd.ca /desert/cop7 (724 words)

	Earth Action
		The UNCCD, which came into force in 1996, provides a common definition of the desertification problem and sets out the principles, objectives, and strategies for a coordinated plan of action.
		One unique feature of the UNCCD is that it requires each government to involve the people most affected by desertification—particularly women and youth—in designing and implementing its National Action Programme.
		The list of UNCCD country Focal Points can be found on the UNCCD homepage.
	www.earthaction.org /engl/actionalertc.html (766 words)

	AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE SECRETARIAT OF THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		To strengthen awareness among the countries of the sub-region on the need to establish clear cooperation mechanisms for the elaboration and implementation of joint actions to fight land degradation, as well as to integrate them into their respective national policies for the promotion of sustainable development.
		To promote, in accordance with the bottom-up approach called for by the UNCCD Convention, the effective and coordinated participation of all stakeholders at the national and regional levels, including the institutional sector, the civil society and the non-governmental organizations in the decision-making process and implementation of actions aimed at fighting land degradation.
		The UNCCD will support the implementation of those activities in accordance with the mandate received from the Conference of Parties and available resources.
	www.caricom.org /jsp/secretariat/legal_instruments/agreement_unccd_caricom.jsp?menu=secretariat (750 words)

	About FIELD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		These inventories capture information on various aspects of UNCCD financing, including funding agencies and amounts available, eligibility criteria, funding terms and conditions, priorities, application modalities, contacts, as well as co/financial needs, programme and project components, duration, outcomes, lessons learned, good practices and other relevant data.
		Moreover, all the information contained in FIELD is classified according to a classification matrix, which has been designed with the objective to facilitate the identification of relevant data from external sources, and its subsequent codification and retrieval by the FIELD users.
		The rationale behind the Global Mechanism's endeavour to collect and disseminate information is to ensure a rational use of existing resources for the implementation of the UNCCD, to identify gaps in resource flows, and to facilitate implementation of the action programmes.
	infoagro.net /desrural/Materialdidactico/field/FieldSearch/more.htm (2211 words)

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		The decision was made by more than 100 countries attending an international meeting in Havana that ended today, UNCCD’s Sixth Session of the Conference of the Parties.
		This will be the largest financial commitment for activities related to UNCCD since it entered into force in 1996.
		UNCCD is the only binding international legal instrument to address the issue of desertification, a form of land degradation that occurs in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas.
	www.biodiv.org /doc/press/2003/pr-2003-09-11-bs-unccd-en.doc (569 words)

	UNDP Ghana
		The meeting which was jointly organized by the UNDP, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Global Mechanism of UNCCD and the Canadian International Agency (CIDA) was held on June 16th, 2005.
		The rationale for the meeting was for the donor community to provide resources for the implementation of NAP which was completely formulated in April 2002; donors needed to first know the status of UNCCD implementation by the Government.
		The consultative meeting was meant to provide a forum for the government to update the development partners on NAP implementation and to share information on the critical gaps that need to be supported.
	www.undp-gha.org /newsroom1.php (487 words)

	Tracking desertification with satellites highlighted at UNCCD COP
		Desertification does not so much as refer to the spread of existing deserts as the creation of new ones, through the reduction of productivity of vulnerable dryland areas by soil deterioration and erosion as well as the long-term loss of natural vegetation.
		At the meeting, the first results from the project were presented to more than 30 delegates from different countries worldwide.
		While DesertWatch is for the moment focused on what UNCCD classes as ’Annex IV’ countries — meaning the Northern Mediterranean — the potential exists for the same approach to be utilised more widely in support of Convention activities.
	innovations-report.de /html/berichte/.../bericht-50737.html (673 words)

	CMS and UNCCD sign agreement to strengthen collaboration
		In the memorandum, the two conventions agree to participate in each other’s major meetings and to share information of mutual interest, in order to deepen their cooperation.
		The memorandum also requires the UNCCD secretariat to call on the Parties to the UNCCD to integrate the concerns of migratory species into their national, subregional and regional action programmes, and to consult with the CMS in identifying areas critical to the conservation and management of migratory species.
		In order to assess to what extent synergies between the two conventions have evolved, the initiation of case studies and the holding of a workshop are envisaged, as a preliminary step, following the signing.
	www.cms.int /news/PRESS/nwPR2003/nw030903_unccd_cms_pr.htm (502 words)

	UNCCD - United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The fifth session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC 5), initially planned for October 2006, has been rescheduled to take place at a given date between 7 and 22 March 2007.
		The Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) presented its report "Review of the management, administration and activities of the secretariat of the UNCCD" at COP 7.
		By decision 3/COP.7, the Parties decided to establish a working group to review the JIU report in full, and to develop a draft ten-year strategic plan and framework.
	www.unccd.int /main.php (290 words)

	Drylands and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
		The UNCCD is often referred to as one of the Rio Conventions, alongside the Climate Change Convention and the Convention on Biological Diversity.
		The UNCCD's implementation is to be achieved mainly through National Action Programmes (NAPs).
		In cooperation with the International NGO Network on Desertification (RIOD), BirdLife has been working with the UNCCD Conferences of the Parties and the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC).
	www.birdlife.org /action/change/desertification/index.html (621 words)

	Drylands Coordination Group \| +47 23 10 94 90
		UNCCD and Food Security for Pastoralists Within a Human Rights Context".
		Workshop on the implementation of Norway as chef de file for the UNCCD in Ethiopia
		UNCCD Conference on Youth and Desertification in Mali
	www.drylands-group.org (290 words)

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