Contents:
Introduction
Background
Purpose of national reporting
Indicator and monitoring framework
Reporting tools
Data analytics tools
Default data
Open data sharing
Reporting frequency
Recalculations and time series consistency
Process and schedule for the 2022 reporting process
1. Strategic objective 1: To improve the condition of affected ecosystems, combat desertification/ land degradation, promote sustainable land management and contribute to land degradation neutrality
1.1. SO 1-1 – Trends in land cover
1.1.1. Introduction
1.1.2. Prerequisites for reporting
1.1.3. Reporting process and step-by-step procedure
Step 1: Report on land area
Step 2: Identify key degradation processes
Step 3: Select a land cover legend
Step 4: Generate a transition matrix
Step 5: Assess available data
Step 6: Determine the baseline extent of land cover degradation
Step 7: Estimate land cover degradation
Step 8: Verify the results
Step 9: Generate reports
1.1.4. Dependencies
1.1.5. Challenges
Data availability and quality
Land cover classification
1.1.6. Summary (main actions)
1.1.7. Further reading
1.2. SO 1-2 – Trends in land productivity
1.2.1. Introduction
1.2.2. Prerequisites for reporting
1.2.3. Reporting process and step-by-step procedure
Step 1: Select Earth observation dataset
Step 2: Select a productivity index
Step 3: Estimate annual productivity
Step 4: Calculate land productivity metrics
Step 5: Combine productivity metrics to assess land productivity degradation in the baseline period
Step 6: Combine productivity metrics to assess land productivity degradation in the reporting period
Step 7: Verify the results
Step 8: Generate reports
1.2.4. Dependencies
1.2.5. Challenges
1.2.6. Summary (main actions)
1.2.7. Further reading
1.3. SO 1-3 – Trends in carbon stocks above and below ground
1.3.1. Introduction
1.3.2. Prerequisites for reporting
1.3.3. Reporting process and step-by-step procedure
Step 1: Select the estimation method
Step 2: Assess available data
Step 3: Determine the baseline soil organic carbon stock and degradation status
Step 4: Estimate change in soil organic carbon stock
Step 5: Verify the results
Step 6: Generate reports
1.3.4. Dependencies
1.3.5. Challenges
Data availability
Unresolved issues
1.3.6. Summary (main actions)
1.3.7. Further reading
1.4. SO 1-4 – Proportion of land that is degraded over total land area (Sustainable Development Goal indicator 15.3.1)
1.4.1. Introduction
1.4.2. Prerequisites for reporting
1.4.3. Reporting process and step-by-step procedure
Step 1. Calculate Sustainable Development Goal indicator 15.3.1
Step 2. Identify false positives and false negatives
Step 3. Assess hotspots and brightspots
Step 4. Generate reports
1.4.4. Dependencies
1.4.5. Summary (main actions)
1.4.6. Further reading
2. Strategic objective 2: To improve the living conditions of affected populations
2.1. SO 2-1 – Trends in population living below the relative poverty line and/or income inequality in affected areas
2.1.1. Introduction
2.1.2. Prerequisites for reporting
2.1.3. Reporting process and step-by-step procedure
Step 1: Choose the most suitable metric
Step 2: Identify the relevant dataset
Step 3: Report national annual values of the chosen metric and interpret the data
Step 4: Verify the results
Step 5: Generate reports
2.1.4. Dependencies
2.1.5. Challenges
Data availability and quality
2.1.6. Summary (main actions)
2.1.7. Further reading
2.2. SO 2-2 – Trends in access to safe drinking water in affected areas
2.2.1. Introduction
2.2.2. Prerequisites for reporting
2.2.3. Reporting process and step-by-step procedure
Step 1: Identify the relevant dataset
Step 2: Report national annual values and interpret the data
Step 3: Verify the results
Step 4: Generate reports
2.2.4. Dependencies
2.2.5. Challenges
Data availability and quality
2.2.6. Summary (main actions)
2.2.7. Further reading
2.3. SO 2-3 – Trends in Population Exposure to Land Degradation Disaggregated by Sex
2.3.1. Introduction
2.3.2. Prerequisites for reporting
2.3.3. Reporting process and step-by-step procedure
Step 1: Select the population dataset
Step 2: Standardize the selected datasets
Step 3: Estimate the female, male and total population count and percentage exposed to land degradation
Step 4: Qualitatively assess the results
Step 5: Verify the results
Step 6: Generate reports
2.3.4. Dependencies
2.3.5. Challenges
Data availability and quality
Limitation of the analytical approach
2.3.6. Summary (main actions)
2.3.7. Further reading
3. Strategic objective 3: To mitigate, adapt to, and manage the effects of drought in order to enhance resilience of vulnerable populations and ecosystems
3.1. SO 3-1 – Trends in the proportion of land under drought over the total land area
3.1.1. Introduction
3.1.2. Prerequisites for reporting
3.1.3. Reporting process and step-by-step procedure
Step 1: Select precipitation dataset
Step 2: Calculate the Standardized Precipitation Index
Step 3: Identify the drought intensity class of each grid cell based on the calculated Standardized Precipitation Index value
Step 4: Calculate proportion of land under drought
Step 5: Create a gridded spatial summary for the baseline and reporting periods
Step 6: Verify the results
Step 7: Generate reports
3.1.4. Dependencies
3.1.5. Challenges
Data availability and quality
Limitations of the SPI-based estimates
3.1.6. Summary (main actions)
3.1.7. Further reading
3.2. SO 3-2 – Trends in the proportion of the total population exposed to drought
3.2.1. Introduction
3.2.2. Prerequisites for reporting
3.2.3. Reporting process and step-by-step procedure
Step 1: Select the population dataset
Step 2: Overlay gridded population data with indicator SO 3-1 spatial output
Step 3: Calculate the total population and the number and percentage of people within each drought intensity class
Step 4: Create a gridded spatial summary in four-year epochs
Step 5: Verify the results
Step 6: Generate reports
3.2.4. Dependencies
3.2.5. Challenges
Data availability and quality
3.2.6. Summary (main actions)
3.2.7. Further reading
3.3. SO 3-3 – Trends in the degree of drought vulnerability
3.3.1. Introduction
3.3.2. Prerequisites for reporting
3.3.3. Reporting process and step-by-step procedure
Step 1: Select tier of vulnerability assessment based on data availability
Step 2: Factor normalization
Step 3: Derive the Drought Vulnerability Index components
Step 4: Calculate the Drought Vulnerability Index
Step 5: Verify the results
Step 6: Generate reports
3.3.4. Dependencies
3.3.5. Challenges
Data availability and quality
Methodological approach
3.3.6. Summary (main actions)
3.3.7. Further reading
4. Strategic objective 4: To generate global environmental benefits through effective implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
4.1. SO 4-1 – Trends in carbon stocks above and below ground
4.2. SO 4-2 – Trends in abundance and distribution of selected species
4.2.1. Introduction
4.2.2. Prerequisites for reporting
4.2.3. Reporting process and step-by-step procedures
Step 1: Report Red List Index data
Step 2: Qualitatively assess the Red List Index data
Step 3: Verify the results
Step 4: Generate reports
4.2.4. Dependencies
4.2.5. Challenges
Data interpretation
4.2.6. Summary
4.2.7. Further reading
4.3. SO 4-3 Trends in protected area coverage of important biodiversity areas
4.3.1. Introduction
4.3.2. Prerequisites for reporting
4.3.3. Reporting process and step-by-step procedures
Step 1: Report indicator data
Step 2: Qualitatively assess the results
Step 3: Verify the results
Step 4: Generate reports
4.3.4. Dependencies
4.3.5. Challenges
Data availability and quality
Data interpretation
4.3.6. Summary
4.3.7. Further reading
5. Strategic objective 5: To mobilize substantial and additional financial and non-financial resources to support the implementation of the Convention by building effective partnerships at global and national level
Introduction
Structure and aim of the SO 5 indicator framework
Tier approach for SO 5
5.1. SO 5-1 – Bilateral and multilateral public resources
5.1.1. Introduction
5.1.2. Prerequisites for reporting
5.1.3. Reporting process and step-by-step procedure
Step 1: Identification of relevant data
Step 2: Estimate trends in bilateral and multilateral public resources
Step 3: Reporting in narrative format
Step 4: Compiling the table
Step 5: Use of documentation box
5.2. SO5-2 – Domestic public resources
5.2.1. Introduction
5.2.2. Reporting process and step-by-step procedure
Step 1: Identification of relevant data
Step 2: Estimate trends in domestic public resources
Step 3: Reporting in narrative format
Step 4: Compiling the table
Step 5: Use of documentation box
Step 6: Qualitative question
5.3. SO5-3 – International and domestic private resources
5.3.1. Introduction
5.3.2. Prerequisites for reporting
5.3.3. Reporting process and step-by-step procedure
Step 1: Identification of relevant data
Step 2: Estimate trends in international and domestic private resources
Step 3: Reporting in narrative format
Step 4: Compiling the table
Step 5: Reporting methodological information
5.4. SO5-4 – Technology transfer
5.4.1. Introduction
5.4.2. Prerequisites for reporting
5.4.3. Reporting process and step-by-step procedure
Step 1: Identification of relevant data
Step 2: Estimate trends in technology transfer resources provided and received
Step 3: Reporting in narrative format
Step 4: Compiling the table
Step 5: Reporting methodological information
5.5. SO5-5 – Future support for activities related to the implementation of the Convention
5.5.1. Introduction
5.5.2. Prerequisites for reporting
5.5.3. Reporting process and step-by-step procedure
SO5-5.1: Planned provision and mobilization of domestic public and private resources
SO5-5.2: Planned provision and mobilization of international public and private resources
SO5-5.3: Resources needed
6. Strategic objective 1 to 4: voluntary targets, additional indicators and affected areas
6.1. Voluntary targets for strategic objective 1
6.1.1. Introduction
6.1.2. Prerequisites for reporting
6.1.3. Reporting process and step-by-step procedure
Step 1. Declare national voluntary targets
Step 2. Describe implemented actions relevant to the targets
6.1.4. Dependencies
6.1.5. Challenges
6.1.6. Further reading
6.2. Voluntary targets for strategic objectives 2, 3 and 4
6.2.1. Introduction
6.2.2. Reporting process and step-by-step procedure
Step 1. Declare national voluntary targets
Step 2. Provide any complementary information
6.3. Additional Indicators
6.3.1. Introduction
6.3.2. Reporting process and step-by-step procedure
Step 1. Report any national additional indicators
6.4. Affected Areas
6.4.1. Introduction
6.4.2. Pre-requisite for reporting
6.4.3. Reporting process and step-by-step procedure
Step 1: Define affected areas
Step 2: Delineate affected areas
Step 3: Calculation of affected area estimates for all indicators
Step 4: Generate reports
6.4.4. Challenges
Data availability and quality
Methodological approach
6.4.5. Summary (main actions)
7. Implementation framework: financial and non-financial resources, policy and planning, and action on the ground
7.1. About the implementation framework
7.1.1. Introduction
7.1.2. Approach to reporting and structure of the reporting template
7.1.3. Review
7.2. Financial and non-financial resources
7.2.1. Increasing the mobilization of resources
7.2.2. Using land degradation neutrality as a framework to increase investment
7.2.3. Improving existing and/or innovative financial processes and institutions
7.3. Policy and planning
7.3.1. Action programmes
7.3.2. Policies and enabling environment
7.3.3. Synergies
7.3.4. Mainstreaming desertification/land degradation and drought
7.3.5. Drought-related policies
7.4. Action on the ground
7.4.1. Sustainable land management practices
7.4.2. Restoration and rehabilitation
7.4.3. Drought risk management and early warning systems
7.4.4. Alternative livelihoods
7.4.5. Establishing knowledge-sharing systems
Annex I: User-specific license options for national data uploaded to the UNCCD Performance Review and Assessment of Implementation System (PRAIS)
1. UNCCD Mandate
2. Introduction
3. Submitting national datasets to PRAIS
4. Licence Instructions
4.1. Creative Commons Licences
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
4.2. Existing licences
Annex II: Metadata
1. Introduction
2. Metadata structure and content
Data content
Contact point
Geographic location
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