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New standards for financial reporting presented at COP9
Integrated Financing Strategies for SLM
GM contributes to the UNCCD global capacity building initiative on reporting
28 December, 2009
Decision 13 of the 9th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP9) set new procedures to improve the quality and format of reports to be submitted to COPs. In response to this decision, the GM is collaborating with the UNCCD secretariat, UNEP/GEF and the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) to develop and implement a comprehensive capacity building initiative to assist country Parties in monitoring indicators and communicating information in relation to this decision.
For the 4th UNCCD reporting cycle that starts on 1 January 2010, this initiative will focus on assisting countries in complying with the first set of the new reporting requirements that will be applied to the reports to be submitted to the ninth session of the Committee for the Review of the Convention (CRIC9), scheduled to take place in the fall of 2010.
During 2010, in collaboration with 15 sub-regional institutions, the initiative aims to strengthen national reporting capacities of eligible country Parties through the provision of:
- guidelines, glossaries, and new reporting templates;
- training sessions on the new reporting template and use of the Performance Review and Assessment of Implementation System (PRAIS) portal; the compilation of the Standard Financial Annex (SFA) and Programme and Project Sheet (PPS); and
- training and technical support in the use of web-based reporting tools.
In addition to contributing directly to the above project objectives and activities, the GM will continue to assist countries in the donor/project mapping exercises undertaken in the framework of developing integrated financing strategies (IFSs) and in the establishment of observatories on SLM-related funding opportunities and investment flows. These and other ongoing actions will support the elaboration of the financial annexes to the national reports.
Download Decision 13/COP9 (pdf, English, 149kb)
For more information:
Mr Simone Quatrini
Coordinator, Policy & Investment Analysis
Tel. +39 06 5459 2154
s.quatrini (at) global-mechanism.org
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