Secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (Secretariat of the UNCCD)
Secrétariat de la Convention des Nations Unies sur la Lutte contre la Désertification
Secretaria de la Convención de las Naciones Unidas de Lucha contra la Desertificacion
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URL: http://www.unccd.int/
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1999-02 Bonn Germany
History
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Assist the Conference of Parties by making necessary arrangements for meetings and subsidiary bodies established under the convention and provide services as required.
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52 Intergovernmental organizations accredited by the Conference of the Parties, include:
- F-XF0671 - Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS);
- F-XF0018 - African Development Bank (ADB);
- H-XD6329 - African Organization of Cartography and Remote Sensing (AOCRS);
- D-XD8572 - African Union (AU) - previously Organization of African Unity;
- D-XM6006 - Agence Panafricaine de la Grande Muraille Verte (APGMV);
- E-XE5527 - Arab Centre for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands (ACSAD);
- F-XF1048 - Arab Maghreb Union (AMU);
- D-XD5526 - Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD);
- C-XC0069 - Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization (AALCO);
- H-XE3150 - Bioversity International - previously known as IPGRI;
- C-XC0359 - CABI;
- F-XF7133 - Commission des forêts d'Afrique centrale (COMIFAC);
- E-XE2032 - Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe (CEDARE);
- E-XE4468 - CGIAR System Organization (CGIAR) / E-XE4115 - International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT);
- D-XD4566 - Comité permanent inter-Etats de lutte contre la sécheresse dans le Sahel (CILSS);
- F-XF9551 - Common Fund for Commodities (CFC);
- C-XC0376 - Commonwealth Secretariat;
- F-XF3714 - Communauté économique et monétaire d'Afrique centrale (CEMAC);
- D-XD5661 - Comunidade dos Paises de Lingua Portuguesa (CPLP);
- D-XD7706 - Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD);
- D-XD0435 - Council of Europe (CE);
- D-XD4308 - Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS);
- F-XD3462 - Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS);
- D-XD0868 - European Space Agency (ESA);
- G-XG6798 - Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD);
- E-XE1083 - Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA);
- F-XF4199 - Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD);
- E-XE5928 - International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA);
- B-XB1112 - International Organization for Migration (IOM);
- D-XD2903 - League of Arab States (LAS);
- F-XN5321 - Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel (OSS);
- C-XC3023 - OECD;
- C-XC4129 - Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC);
- D-XD3260 - Pacific Community (SPC);
- F-XF3107 - Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA);
- E-XM3545 - Regional Environmental Centre for the Caucasus (REC Caucasus);
- E-XE1435 - Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe (REC);
- G-XM1321 - Regional Water Centre for Arid and Semi-Arid Regions of Latin America and the Caribbean;
- E-XE1306 - Secretariat of the Convention of Wetlands;
- E-XE8300 - Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP);
- F-XF2522 - Southern African Development Community (SADC);
- E-XF4511 - Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE);
- F-XF3713 - Union économique et monétaire Ouest africaine (UEMOA).
Member of: E-XE3727 - Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF); E-XJ2271 - UN-Water. Partner of: D-XD4526 - Niger Basin Authority (NBA) (Venezuela Cooperation). Cooperates with: E-XE3387 - United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). Also links with: E-XJ7326 - Global Soil Partnership (GSP); F-XF0728 - Group of 77 (G-77); E-XE3879 - Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF); E-XE0071 - Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD); E-XE3586 - Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD); E-XE4161 - UNEP; F-XF6300 - United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF); F-XF2488 - United Nations University (UNU); E-XE4317 - World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP).
Relations with Non-Governmental Organizations
314 Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have been accredited by the Conference of the Parties, including the following organizations listed in this Yearbook:
- G-XG9345 - African Centre for Assistance and Protection of the Environment of the Sahel;
- F-XJ8468 - African Forest Forum (AFF);
- G-XE6056 - African Office for Development and Cooperation;
- F-XM1883 - African Youth Movement (AYM);
- U-XG6172 - Asociación Ecológica del Oriente;
- D-XD5527 - Association internationale forêts méditerranéennes (AIFM);
- D-XM2985 - Association of the Network for International Research on Desertification (DesertNet International);
- F-XF2019 - Both ENDS;
- F-XF1268 - Caribbean Network for Integrated Rural Development (CNIRD);
- F-XF3821 - Caribbean Youth Environment Network (CYEN);
- F-XM3153 - Caucasus Environmental NGO Network (CENN);
- G-XG8745 - Centre d'actions et de réalisations internationales (CARI);
- G-XG9723 - Centre de recherche et d'information pour le développement, Paris (CRID);
- G-XG1119 - Christian Aid;
- G-XM5955 - Commonland Foundation;
- D-XD2804 - Confédération des ONG d'environnement et de développement de l'Afrique centrale (CONGAC);
- C-XF1397 - Conservation International (CI);
- G-XG4075 - Cooperazione Internazionale Sud-Sud (CISS);
- D-XM5733 - Council of European Foresters (CEF);
- G-XM5958 - DESERTEC Foundation;
- U-XM5959 - Drylands Coordination Group (DCG);
- F-XF1672 - EarthAction (EA);
- G-XM0676 - Eau vive;
- G-XJ5651 - Ecopeace Asia;
- E-XF4592 - EcoPeace Middle East;
- F-XD7793 - Environnement et développement du Tiers-monde (enda);
- U-XF1762 - Esquel Group Foundation (EGF);
- F-XF8607 - Farm Radio International;
- F-XJ8274 - Fondation Déserts du Monde;
- G-XG9354 - Forum international pour l'exploitation forestière (FIEF);
- F-XF4299 - Friends of the Earth International (FoEI);
- E-XC0983 - Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC);
- G-XG9672 - Global Environmental Forum (GEF);
- J-XM5962 - Global Green Environmental Network (GGEN);
- G-XJ2571 - Green Asia Network (GAN);
- F-XF5170 - Green Cross International (GCI);
- U-XG4356 - Green Earth Organization (GEO);
- G-XG3851 - Hanns Seidel Foundation;
- G-XG6414 - Help for Children in Need;
- B-XC4625 - IFOAM - Organics International (IFOAM);
- E-XM3678 - Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC);
- F-XF3455 - Initiatives of Change International - Caux (IofC);
- H-XD2565 - International Association for the Protection of the Environment in Africa (ENVIRO-PROTECT);
- F-XM3332 - International Biochar Initiative (IBI);
- U-XG9358 - International Campaign for Freedom and Peace (ICFP);
- E-XF1568 - International Centre of Comparative Environmental Law;
- G-XJ9875 - International Centre for Environmental Education and Community Development (ICENECDEV);
- U-XE2879 - International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, Geneva (ICTSD);
- B-XB2907 - International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies;
- J-XM5975 - International Foundation for African Children (IFAC);
- D-XC4518 - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA);
- D-XM5974 - International Institute for Sustainability Analysis and Strategy;
- A-XM2085 - International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC);
- A-XA2654 - International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN);
- B-XB2721 - International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO);
- B-XB2568 - International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS);
- G-XM5973 - International Voluntary Organisation for Women, Education and Development (IVOWED);
- E-XF0893 - ISRIC - World Soil Information;
- U-XG6968 - Istituto per le Relazioni tra Italia ed i Paesi dell'Africa, America Latina e Medio Oriente (IPALMO);
- G-XG8970 - Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research (BIDR);
- G-XM5972 - La Brique;
- G-XM5970 - La Route du Sel et de l'Espoir (La ROSE);
- G-XM4999 - League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development (LPP);
- F-XF4120 - Mediterranean Information Office for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development (MIO-ECSDE);
- G-XM5976 - Michael Succow Foundation for the Protection of Nature (Succow Foundation);
- U-XF3186 - Network for Environment and Sustainable Development in Africa (NESDA);
- G-XJ0780 - New World Hope Organization (NWHO);
- J-XM5977 - Northeast Asian Forest Forum (NEAFF);
- F-XM5753 - Nubian Vault Association;
- G-XG8241 - Observatorio Latinoamericano de Conflictos Ambientales, Chile (OLCA);
- G-XM5960 - Ondernemers Zonder Grenzen (OZG);
- G-XM5983 - Global Permaculture Research Institute (GPRI);
- F-XF5349 - Programme Solidarité eau (pS-Eau);
- U-XG1705 - PROTERRA;
- C-XG5142 - Rainforest Alliance;
- G-XM2417 - Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia (CAREC);
- J-XM5985 - Responding to Climate Change (RTCC);
- G-XN1755 - Royal Geographical Society - with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG);
- U-XG0496 - Secrétariat permanent des ONG (SPONG);
- F-XF3036 - Service d'appui aux initiatives locales de développement (SAILD);
- G-XJ3318 - Society for Ecological Restoration International (SERI);
- F-XF3039 - Solar Cookers International (SCI);
- F-XD7603 - SOS SAHEL;
- G-XG2018 - South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA);
- R-XR4374 - Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta;
- E-XE3018 - Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI);
- G-XM5982 - The Sustainability Laboratory (The Lab);
- G-XM8968 - Sustainable Fibre Alliance (SFA);
- G-XM5460 - Sustainable Harvest International;
- G-XM3471 - SYLVA-WORLD for Development and the Protection of Forests and the Environment;
- G-XM5984 - Tchad Agir Pour l'Environnement (TCHAPE);
- G-XJ3178 - Tree Aid;
- F-XM3691 - UNISFÉRA;
- F-XF1829 - Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO);
- E-XD6784 - World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF);
- C-XD4162 - World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD);
- E-XE6342 - World Federation of UNESCO Clubs, Centres and Associations (WFUCA);
- E-XE1495 - World Resources Institute (WRI);
- B-XC4317 - World Vision International (WVI);
- F-XF3608 - World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF);
- G-XM5980 - Yves Rocher Foundation.
Member of: U-XJ4858 - Global Gender and Climate Alliance (GGCA); F-XJ0537 - Mountain Partnership (MP). Cooperates with: F-XM3894 - Fundación Henry Dunant América Latina (FuHD - AL). Links with: D-XM2985 - Association of the Network for International Research on Desertification (DesertNet International); G-XM0012 - International Centre for Eremology (ICE); F-XF5729 - International Land Coalition (ILC); B-XB2721 - International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO); F-XJ1703 - TerrAfrica; E-XM1096 - United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS); E-XJ5543 - Youth and United Nations Global Alliance (YUNGA); B-XB2721 - International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO).
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