2018: a year in review

Please join us to mark some of this year's achievements, all of which have been made possible thanks to cooperation and support of all UNCCD stakeholders:

• 120 countries are now part of the Land Degradation Neutrality Target Setting Programme (LDN TSP)
• 60 countries have established LDN targets
• 46 countries have mapped LDN transformative projects and programmes (TPP)
• GM has pledged its support to ten countries developing the LDN TPP and another three countries under the 3S Initiative 
• Thirteen countries have submitted project ideas under the 3S Initiative, with five major projects already under development
• 43 countries have joined the Drought Initiative
• The financing needed to develop Great Green Wall TPP portfolio has been secured
• Almost 3 000 new subscribers joined the UNCCD News Alert
• Nearly 4 000 new followers joined us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, instagram, Weibo
• e-learning videos on the new UNCCD reporting process received close to 3 000 views on the UNCCD YouTube channel
• Over 80 countries reported their WDCD events, and the #2018WDCD social media campaign received over 460 000 impressions. The campaign hashtag #2018WDCD received 4 772 704 impressions
• UNCCD published three new titles this year 
• The UNCCD Library twitter activity increased five fold thanks to daily updates of the library catalogue and the library section of the Knowledge Hub that feature publications related to the UNCCD focus areas
• The new World Atlas of Desertification was the most accessed entry in the UNCCD e-library this year
• Other popular titles included the Scientific Conceptual Framework fo LDN, Global Land Outlook and Gender Action Plan

Source: UNCCD