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The UNCCD has developed a new monitoring and reporting system to track and evaluate progress of its implementation through its Ten Year Strategic Plan and Action Framework 2008-2018. The new monitoring system called UNCCD PRAIS is an online monitoring, assessment and reporting system. It is being rolled out through a two year GEF-funded project by the UNCCD Secretariat through a contract with UNEP-WCMC.

This  report  on  progress  in  the  Pacific  was  prepared  by  the  United  Nations  Economic  and  Social  Commission  for  Asia  and  the  Pacific  (ESCAP),  in  accordance  with  United  Nations  General  Assembly  Resolution 63/213 (February 2009). A draft version was tabled for discussion at the Pacific High Level  Dialogue held in Port Vila, Vanuatu on 8?9 February 2010. Comments received during the meeting and  the consultation period that followed have been incorporated into this final version.  

The Small Island Developing States covered in the report are dispersed in the Atlantic (Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Sao Tomé & Principe), in the Indian Ocean (Bahrain, Comoros, Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles), and in the South China Seas (Singapore). Cyprus and Malta, located in the Mediterranean, also members of the group, are no longer considered as Small Island Development States and are, thus, not included in the review. The group is referred to as the AIMS countries.