UNCCD

The 19^Th Session of the Committee to Review the Implementation of the United Nations Conference Against Desertification (CRIC-19) Will be held online from Monday 15th March to Friday 19th March 2021.

The Search And civil society organizations accredited by the UNCCD will actively participate through the speeches of the CSO Committee. The latter shared in his website documents explaining the key issues of CRIC-19: www.csopanel.org/cric19

CRIC-19 will have five daily online meetings lasting two hours from 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm CET (11:30 am to 1:30 pm GMT / UTC). These meetings will be held in six United Nations languages ​​(English, Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, French and Russian).

The questions on the agenda are as follows:

• Early drought management under drought initiative;
• Land rights and gender;
• Restoration of 450 million hectares of land already done under the Convention;
• Establishing a Land Degradation Neutral Fund;
• Interim Report of the Intergovernmental Working Group on Drought Effective Policies and Enforcement Measures.

All official documentation for the preparation of the CRIC-19 can be found here

This session is an interim work session to review the progress made by countries in implementing the conference (other conferences treat these meetings as sessions of their affiliates and provide details on the activities of the UNCCD. These are frequently asked questions).

CRIC-19 will be an opportunity to review the effective implementation of the conference at the national, sub-regional and regional levels. In February 2021, state parties from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, the North Mediterranean and Central Europe and the East began to hold preparatory meetings for CRIC-19, forming links to the conference’s regional enforcement. .

Daily meetings will be broadcast webtv.un.org You can download an application to follow the activities of this session and conference. This application provides a convenient site for accessing the CRIC-19 program, all official documents, daily newsletter summarizing the day’s events and other useful information about the conference process and conference logistics:

• Download the UNCCD Convention Application iOS
• Download the UNCCD Convention Application Android
• Follow CRIC-19 on Facebook with # UNCCDCRIC19
• Follow CRIC-19 on Twitter # UNCCDCRIC19