Dear friends: This year, living under the shadow of COVID19, choices seems to have vanished for many of us. We can’t choose where we go, how we work, and how we celebrate with our friends, our families. We should be celebrating the just-ended Decade on Desertification, for example. As people suffer…

The first webinar on land-based jobs for youth was held successfully in November last year. Experts shared practical knowledge to help young people to overcome key obstacles to creating their own jobs. More specifically, they talked about building self-confidence and generating creative ideas. Due…

Istanbul, Turkey – Public awareness event conducted by the UNCCD RCU for Northern Mediterranean on 15 February 2019 attracted 25 people who came to learn more about desertification and how it is addressed in Turkey. Presenters Esra Bektaşoğlu and Büşra Öztürk described the work of UNCCD, how…

The Land Degradation Neutrality Fund (LDN Fund), a mechanism to mobilize impact investments to restore degraded land, will be featured at the One Planet Summit taking place on Wednesday, 26 September 2018, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, United States. The Summit is taking place in the margins…

Bonn, Germany – French and Spanish translations of the Land Degradation Neutrality Transformative Projects and Programmes: Operational guidance for country support, and French translation of the Manual for gender-responsive Land Degradation Neutrality transformative projects and programmes are now…

A statement by UNCCD Executive Secretary Ibrahim Thiaw After a year in which COVID-19 has swept the world, killing almost three million people – so far – and devastating the global economy, today’s World Health Day is a moment to reflect. This year’s theme of "Building a fairer, healthier world for…

The Government of Sierra Leone has successfully launched the National Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) target setting process. The launching ceremony took place at the Ministry of Lands, Country Planning and Environment, in Freetown and was broadcast on National TV in three consecutive slots. The…

Bonn, Germany – The COVID-19 pandemic is the most recent crisis facing the humankind, but unless we ease the pressure on nature, it might not be the last, warns the new report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) that includes an experimental index on human progress that takes into…

Barcelona, Spain – A regional workshop co-organized by FAO, the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) and the Global Mechanism of UNCCD took place at the UfM headquarters from 4 to 7 November 2019, gathering participants from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Turkey and Tunisia to deepen their…

PRAIS 4 REPORTING PLATFORM The UNCCD Performance Review and Implementation System (PRAIS), PRAIS 4, has undergone a major upgrade and is now live at the following link. PRAIS 4 makes access to reporting data easier for country Parties, centralizes all reporting data in one place and offers…