The new Good Practice Guidance for national reporting on UNCCD strategic objective 3 supports Parties to report on the hazard posed by drought, the population exposed to drought and the vulnerability of those exposed to harm. These are the three fundamental components of drought risk, and each is represented by an indicator in the monitoring framework adopted by Parties in decision 11.COP.14.

This Guidance is consistent with international standards and relevant resolutions of the World Meteorological Organization. It balances state-of-the-art methodologies and data availability with the need for relative simplicity and global applicability. Through this Guidance, the UNCCD aims to improve collaboration among global drought monitoring efforts within all relevant intergovernmental mechanisms, without replacing the approaches and level of granularity needed to monitor drought at the national and local levels.

The Guidance informs the work of Parties, particularly for global level reporting of the hazard posed by drought, the population exposed to drought and the vulnerability of those exposed to harm. Publication Coordinator: Sara Minelli Design and layout: DesignEID