Planning, and the identification of the goals is being done jointly with all stakeholders in participatory planning sessions, namely during annual EMPRES Liaison Officers Meetings and Consultative Committee Meetings.

All Locust Control Units of the member countries are fully equipped with modern communication facilities such as e-mail, internet, fax and radios to stimulate the vertical and horizontal interaction between the stakeholders. Information and experience exchange, as well as collaboration between the member countries gained momentum in most cases and is being documented in a number of joint activities such as inter-regional seminars, workshops and joint cross border surveys.

The regional entities, the Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region (CRC) and the Desert Locust Control Organization for Eastern Africa (DLCO-EA) are fully supporting the introduction of advanced preventive locust control strategies, and formerly non-CRC EMPRES countries such as Djibouti, Ethiopia and Eritrea also joined the Commission.