This page summarizes the Action Programmes concerning Asia on national, sub-regional and regional level. Documents are provided as soon as they become available.
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The resolutions adopted during the first Regional Conference on the Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, held at New Dehli, August, 1996, prepared the ground for the preparation of the Convention’s Regional Action Programme for Asia. Guided by the principles and provisions of the Convention, especially those in its Annex II, the Regional Implementation Annex for Asia, Asian country Parties, with continued assistance from the UNCCD Secretariat, have taken initiatives aimed at achieving the objectives of the Convention. As a follow-up to the New Delhi meeting, two other important meetings were held: the Ministerial Conference on Regional Cooperation to Implement the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Asia, held in Beijing in 1997, and the International Expert Group Meeting on the Preparation of the Regional Action Programme for Combating Desertification and Mitigating the Effects of Drought in Asia, held at Bangkok in 1998. Those meetings carried the Asian region through a process of mobilizing political commitment to regional and subregional collaboration. They also paved the way for the formulation of a framework for the Regional Action Programme (RAP) and the development of National Action Programmes (NAPs). Furthermore, the meetings established thematic programme networks (TPNs) that provide structural support to RAP and NAPs which, essentially, are at the core of action for combating desertification in the region.

Framework Paper for the Beijing Ministerial Conference on Regional Cooperation to implement the CCD		TPN1 China	Desertification Monitoring and Assessment
		TPN2 India	Agroforestry and Soil Conservation in Arid, Semi-arid and Dry Sub-humid areas
		TPN3 Iran	Rangeland management in arid areas including the fixation of sand dunes
		TPN4 Syria	Water resources management for agriculture in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas
		TPN5 Mongolia	Strengthening capacities for drought impact mititgating and desertification combating
		TPN6 Pakistan	Assistance for the implementation of integrated local area development programmes (LAPDs) initiatives