• تشجيع الحكومات على الاعتراف بالاتفاقية على أنها اتفاقية إنمائية وببرنامج العمل الوطني على أنه برنامج في حاجة إلى إخراجه من إطاره الإيكولوجي وإدماجه في عمليتي التخطيط والموازنة، كأن يدمج في خطط العمل الوطنية وفي الاستراتيجيات القطاعية كالتي تتعلق بالزراعة والحراجة والتنمية الريفية، وفي الاستراتيجيات المرتبطة بتخفيف وطأة الفقر وورقات استراتيجية الحد من الفقر؛
Encouraging governments to recognize the Convention as a development convention and the national action programme as a programme that needs to brought out of its ecological niche and be mainstreamed into planning and budgeting processes, such as into national development plans, into sector strategies as those related to agriculture, forestry and rural development, and into strategies dealing with poverty alleviation, Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs); Encouraging developed country Parties to recognize the Convention in a similar way and take account of it in their development cooperation strategies and in their negotiations with their partners in development; Building partnerships between developed and developing country Parties on the basis of a mutual recognition of the role of the Convention and through identifying the interface between the national action programmes (NAP) with the development partners' frameworks for cooperation and related programming cycles; Investing the GM's catalytic resources (voluntary contributions) to foster the above processes and generate a multiplier effect on investments; Capitalising on GM's Facilitation Committee and other strategic alliances for the purpose of enhancing support to developing country Parties, coordinate efforts and benefit from institutional synergies; Developing new and additional sources of funding with an emphasis on GEF which originally did not have a window on land degradation and deforestation, but also including other sources e.g. debt swap and possibilities through carbon trading.