PRAIS4 Reporting Manual

Contents:

• Introduction
  • Background
  • Purpose of national reporting
  • Indicator and monitoring framework
  • Reporting tools
  • Data analytics tools
  • Default data
  • Open data sharing
  • Reporting frequency
  • Recalculations and time series consistency
  • Process and schedule for the 2022 reporting process
• 1. Strategic objective 1: To improve the condition of affected ecosystems, combat desertification/ land degradation, promote sustainable land management and contribute to land degradation neutrality
  • 1.1. SO 1-1 – Trends in land cover
  • 1.2. SO 1-2 – Trends in land productivity
  • 1.3. SO 1-3 – Trends in carbon stocks above and below ground
  • 1.4. SO 1-4 – Proportion of land that is degraded over total land area (Sustainable Development Goal indicator 15.3.1)
• 2. Strategic objective 2: To improve the living conditions of affected populations
  • 2.1. SO 2-1 – Trends in population living below the relative poverty line and/or income inequality in affected areas
  • 2.2. SO 2-2 – Trends in access to safe drinking water in affected areas
  • 2.3. SO 2-3 – Trends in Population Exposure to Land Degradation Disaggregated by Sex
• 3. Strategic objective 3: To mitigate, adapt to, and manage the effects of drought in order to enhance resilience of vulnerable populations and ecosystems
  • 3.1. SO 3-1 – Trends in the proportion of land under drought over the total land area
  • 3.2. SO 3-2 – Trends in the proportion of the total population exposed to drought
  • 3.3. SO 3-3 – Trends in the degree of drought vulnerability
• 4. Strategic objective 4: To generate global environmental benefits through effective implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
  • 4.1. SO 4-1 – Trends in carbon stocks above and below ground
  • 4.2. SO 4-2 – Trends in abundance and distribution of selected species
  • 4.3. SO 4-3 Trends in protected area coverage of important biodiversity areas
• 5. Strategic objective 5: To mobilize substantial and additional financial and non-financial resources to support the implementation of the Convention by building effective partnerships at global and national level
  • Introduction
  • 5.1. SO 5-1 – Bilateral and multilateral public resources
  • 5.2. SO5-2 – Domestic public resources
  • 5.3. SO5-3 – International and domestic private resources
  • 5.4. SO5-4 – Technology transfer
  • 5.5. SO5-5 – Future support for activities related to the implementation of the Convention
• 6. Strategic objective 1 to 4: voluntary targets, additional indicators and affected areas
  • 6.1. Voluntary targets for strategic objective 1
  • 6.2. Voluntary targets for strategic objectives 2, 3 and 4
  • 6.3. Additional Indicators
  • 6.4. Affected Areas
• 7. Implementation framework: financial and non-financial resources, policy and planning, and action on the ground
  • 7.1. About the implementation framework
  • 7.2. Financial and non-financial resources
  • 7.3. Policy and planning
  • 7.4. Action on the ground
• Annex I: User-specific license options for national data uploaded to the UNCCD Performance Review and Assessment of Implementation System (PRAIS)
  • 1. UNCCD Mandate
  • 2. Introduction
  • 3. Submitting national datasets to PRAIS
  • 4. Licence Instructions
  • 4.1. Creative Commons Licences
  • 4.2. Existing licences
• Annex II: Metadata
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Metadata structure and content