United Nations Plan of Action to Combat Desertification

United Nations Plan of Action to Combat Desertification

On 20 August 1974, the United Nations Conference on Desertification, held in Nairobi, adopted a comprehensive Action Plan to Combat Desertification (MPAP). This report was submitted to the United Nations General Assembly by the Social and Economic Council on 17 October 1977.

At the third meeting of the UNSC in 1977, the report of the CPI was approved and the task of monitoring and coordinating the implementation of this plan was assigned to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). In another resolution adopted on the same day, it was requested that a report on the results of monitoring the efforts to combat desertification be submitted to the General Assembly for the first time in 1978 and every two years thereafter, through the Social Council.