Overview, analysis, trends, strategic thrust and relevance of donor assistance to UNCCD with particular reference to the Asian region.
The GM was requested by COP.3 (paragraph 11, Decision 9/COP.3) “in coordination with theUNCCD Secretariat, to organize during the year 2000 regional and/or subregional workshops inAfrica, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean on procedures to access existing financialmechanisms, with the aim of mobilizing and channelling financial resources for implementation, andthe transfer of technologies.”

The workshops covered the following geographical areas:•Eastern and Southern Africa, under the aegis of the Southern African Development Community/Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Desertification (Kenya,2-4 October 2000);•West Africa, under the aegis of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)and the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) (tentativelyplanned for early-December 2000);•North Africa (Algiers, 24-26 October 2000), bringing together representatives of Egypt,countries of the Maghreb and frontline Sahelian countries. Discussions centred ontransboundary ecosystems and prospects for cooperation with “Annex I” countries, i.e. those ofthe northern Mediterranean;•Latin America and the Caribbean (El Salvador, 20-21 October 2000); and•Asia (Bangkok, 9-10 November 2000)