UNCCD Terminology

Approach to review the performance and implementation of the Convention, its Parties and subsidiary bodies. Detailed information on how this is done by the Committee for the Review of the Implementation (CRIC) can be gleaned from decision 13/COP.13. PRAIS commonly describes the reporting portal used by Parties to upload national reports which, in turn, constitute the basis for the review undertaken by the CRIC.

Established in 1973, CILSS is a sub-regional intergovernmental organisation that, amongst other things, helps West African countries to implement the Convention. Membership includes : Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Chad, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal.

These include permanent lakes and ponds, rivers and coastal water surfaces, such as lagoons and estuaries. It does not include the sea and ocean, as well as liquid dump sites.
(Source: https://land.copernicus.eu/pan-european/high-resolution-layers/permanen…)

A digital image is a two-dimensional array of small areas called pixels, which correspond spatially to relatively small terrain areas called ground resolution units.

An open meeting of the entire Conference of the Parties where all formal decisions are taken.

Policies are a definite courses or methods of action selected from among alternatives, and in light of given conditions to guide and determine present and future decisions.

Encompasses activities to deliver a crop from harvest to consumption with minimum loss, maximum efficiency, and maximum return for all involved – such as drying, storage, cooling, cleaning, sorting, and packing.

A line drawn at a particular level of income or at a particular value of consumption. Households whose incomes fall below the level of the poverty line or whose consumption level is valued at less than the value of the poverty line are classified as poor. Households with incomes or consumption levels valued above this line are described as the non-poor. The international poverty line is currently set at USD 1.90 a day.

Any measure, method or activity. See also ‘Good practices’ and ‘Best practices’

The participating governments elect a President (for the COP) or Chair (for the COW and the CST) from amongst the delegates. The President or Chair is responsible for facilitating progress towards an agreement and normally serves until the following COP.

Activities and measures to minimize existing and new disaster risks.

Productivity in this document is used in biological terms. It refers to the rate of production of new biomass by an individual, population, or community (Oxford Dictionaries, n.d.).