The eleventh session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNCCD (COP 11) was held in Windhoek, from 16–27 September 2013 under the theme ‘A stronger UNCCD for a Land-Degradation Neutral World’. The theme marked the progress of the Parties to the Convention under the 10-year strategy, while encouraging further action for its successful implementation during the remaining strategy period. The COP 11 sessions focused on financing, knowledge brokering as well as the Rio+20 outcomes on land degradation, desertification and drought.