Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa A/RES/74/220 21. Encourages parties to the Convention to continue to promote the prevention of desertification, land degradation and drought with an integrated landscape approach, including the rehabilitation and restoration of degraded land and sustainable land management; 22. Encourages developed countries party to the Convention and other relevant stakeholders to actively support the efforts of developing countries party to the Convention in promoting sustainable land management practices and in seeking to achieve a land degradation-neutral world by providing substantial financial resources, from all sources, facilitated access to appropriate technology on mutually agreed terms and other forms of support, including through capacity-building measures; 23. Recognizes the benefits gained from cooperation through the sharing of climate and weather information, forecasting and early war ning systems related to desertification, land degradation and drought, while also taking account of sand and dust storms, at the global, regional and subregional levels, and in this regard likewise recognizes the need for further cooperation between partie s to the Convention and relevant organizations in the sharing of related information, forecasting and early warning systems; 24. Encourages all relevant entities of the United Nations system within their respective mandates to harness opportunities for leveraging synergies among the Convention on Biological Diversity, 12 the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, and the United Nations Framework Conve ntion on Climate Change 5 and other relevant multilateral environmental agreements, as well as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and in this respect welcom es the ongoing efforts to strengthen synergies among the secretariats of the aforementioned conventions; 25. Invites the President of the General Assembly, with the support of the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, to organize, during the seventy-fourth session of the Assembly, a high-level dialogue to assess the progress made in the fight against desertification, land degradation and drought and to map the way forward, in the light of the United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification, which is coming to an end in 2020; 26. Notes with appreciation the financial contributions that have been made by Member States and other donors towards the Land Degradation Neutrality Fund, and invites Member States and other donors to make further contributions to the Land Degradation Neutrality Fund and the Convention’s drought initiative; 27. Decides to include, in the United Nations calendar of conferences and meetings for the year 2020 and subsequent years, the sessions of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention and each of its subsidiary bodies, and requests the Secretary-General to continue to make provisions for those sessions in the proposed programme budgets; 28. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution, and decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-fifth session, under the item entitled “Sustainable development”, the sub-item entitled “Implementation of __________________ 12 6/7 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1760, No. 30619. 19-22489