The Conference of the Parties,
Recalling that The Strategy calls for partnership building for the implementation of the Convention,
Reaffirming the need for mutually supportive targeted action to address desertification and land degradation and mitigate the effects of drought,
Welcoming the progress made to date in the development of cooperative arrangements with relevant conventions,
Expressing appreciation of those conventions, international agreements and programmes that have provided information and undertaken common action to assist with the delivery of The Strategy,
1. Encourages the development of further cooperation with relevant international bodies on matters pertaining to desertification/land degradation and drought (DLDD) with respect to the implementation of The Strategy;
2. Requests the Executive Secretary to continue cooperation with, inter alia, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Environment Programme, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Meteorological Organization, the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, the World Bank, the Global Environment Facility and the International Fund for Agricultural Development, with a view to strengthening the involvement of these agencies and organizations in the implementation of the Convention through their cooperation with affected countries; .
3. Also requests the Executive Secretary to continue coordinating with the secretariats of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity through the Joint Liaison Group to facilitate exchanges of information and joint approaches to harmonizing and facilitating the reporting requirements of Parties;
4. Requests the secretariat to continue its advocacy on sustainable management of the land and water resources and drought risk management (DRM) issues in the context of international cooperation on climate change and biological diversity;
5. Further requests the secretariat in preparation for the tenth session of the Conference of the Parties to elaborate draft advocacy policy frameworks that foster an enabling policy environment for advocating issues that include, inter alia, synergy with climate change adaptation and mitigation, and biological diversity of global ecosystems as related to addressing DLDD;
6. Also requests the secretariat to generate advocacy policy frameworks on thematic issues in order to address the adverse impacts of DLDD, keeping in mind gender sensitive approaches, and to regularly inform affected countries and other key stakeholders on such proceedings that may be useful in the implementation of action programmes;
