Proposal on a new UNCCD monitoring system presented to the CRIC

At the meeting of the Committee for the Review of Implementation of the Convention (CRIC) on Wednesday 30 September 2009 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the UNCCD Secretariat presented a proposal for a performance review and assessment of implementation system (PRAIS). PRAIS has been designed with the purpose of:

reviewing the performance of country Parties and other reporting entities in the implementation of the strategic and operational objectives of the Ten-Year Strategy of the UNCCD, and
assessing the performance of the Convention’s institutions and subsidiary bodies on the basis of the indicators included in their respective results-based-management (RBM) systems.

The PRAIS proposal foresees the establishment of a comprehensive knowledge-sharing system to manage and organize the information that will be contained in the new generation of UNCCD reports prepared by country Parties and other reporting entities in accordance with the new reporting guidelines that are expected to be adopted at COP9. The proposal also anticipates that the GM will analyse financial flows on the basis of the information originating from the financial annexes to the reports.