Opening Remarks: Ms. Rania Sharshr, Director of Climate Action Division, IOM

Remarks from youth representative: Ms. Lynna Abaho, Ugandan Youth Delegate and Climate Activist

Panelists: 

• Mr. Bob Natifu, Government of Uganda as the KD-MECC Chair 
• Economic Community of West African States
• The Government of Senegal 
• The Arab Water Council 
• Mr. Marcos Montoiro, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

This side event will aim to explore the roles of regional frameworks and other forms of regional cooperation for advancing the implementation of the UNCCD decisions, focusing on leveraging the measures of UNCCD for addressing DLDD as one of the drivers of migration but also the positive role of migration in combatting DLDD.