From this perspective the Network will:

• promote joint research relevant to drylands towards integrating and accelerating the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals;
• promote the establishment and reinforcement of observatories on environmental assessment and monitoring;
• provide mechanisms and tools for the exchange of information, knowledge, curricula, and expertise on dryland research;
• facilitate exchange of students, lecturers, researchers, and promote cross-institutional training, teaching, as well as inter- and transdisciplinary research;
• streamline the conveying of research results targeting policy-makers, civil society, and other stakeholders;
• promote the development of science-policy-practice interface from national to global levels;
• support the social and economic development while ensuring environmental sustainability in drylands;
• identify and promote measures for safeguarding the natural and cultural diversity of drylands worldwide in interventions designed to maintain and, where possible, enhance land-based natural capital and the ecosystem services that flow from it;
• explore and encourage synergies relevant to multilateral environmental agreements;
• cooperate in the above activities and exchange information with professional networks of institutions working in fields of dryland science and policy advice.