The authors would like to thank Ms. Louise Baker (Head of ERPA, UNCCD) for supporting the endeavour to analyse the national drought plans and for making the time to read and offer suggestions towards the completion of this analytical piece. Much appreciation also goes to the GM team (Hansol Park, Camilla Nordheim-Larsen, and Aasha Subedi) for making the information on the national droughts plans available for analysis. A big thank you also goes to Erkan Guler for the support in producing maps for the outcome of this work. To all the reviewers of this work, we also extend our gratitude to you for the help in finalizing the fine details of this analytical work