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Article 4 Verdrag van de Verenigde Naties ter bestrijding van woestijnvorming in de landen die te kampen hebben met ernstige droogte en/of woestijnvorming, in het bijzonder in Afrika

Regional implementation Annex for Africa

1 In accordance with their respective capabilities, African country Parties undertake to:

a) adopt the combating of desertification and/or the mitigation of the effects of drought as a central strategy in their efforts to eradicate poverty;

b) promote regional cooperation and integration, in a spirit of solidarity and partnership based on mutual interest, in programmes and activities to combat desertification and/or mitigate the effects of drought;

c) rationalize and strengthen existing institutions concerned with desertification and drought and involve other existing institutions, as appropriate, in order to make them more effective and to ensure more efficient use of resources;

d) promote the exchange of information on appropriate technology, knowledge, know-how and practices between and among them; and

e) develop contingency plans for mitigating the effects of drought in areas degraded by desertification and/or drought.

2 Pursuant to the general and specific obligations set out in articles 4 and 5 of the Convention, affected African country Parties shall aim to:

a) make appropriate financial allocations from their national budgets consistent with national conditions and capabilities and reflecting the new priority Africa has accorded to the phenomenon of desertification and/or drought;

b) sustain and strengthen reforms currently in progress toward greater decentralization and resource tenure as well as reinforce participation of local populations and communities; and

c) identify and mobilize new and additonal national financial resources, and expand, as a matter of priority, existing national capabilities and facilities to mobilize domestic financial resources.

Regeling
Verdrag van de Verenigde Naties ter bestrijding van woestijnvorming in de landen die te kampen hebben met ernstige droogte en/of woestijnvorming, in het bijzonder in Afrika
Soort
Verdrag
Geldend vanaf
06-09-2001
BWB-id
BWBV0001192
Versie
2001-09-06_0

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