Decision AMCEN/SS.X/1: Opportunities to Raise Ambition to Combat Desertification and Land Degradation and Enhance Drought resilience in Africa

Member states among other things reaffirm their commitment to the implementation of the Windhoek Declaration for Enhancing Resilience to Drought in Africa for enhancing resilience to drought in Africa and the Strategic Framework for Drought Risk Management Enhancing Resilience in Africa; and request the African Group of Negotiators on Combating Desertification to submit for consideration and adoption by the sixteenth session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, a draft decision calling for the establishment of an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on a legally binding protocol on drought, building on the report by Intergovernmental Working Group on drought.