At ICW2000, the CGIAR decided to implement the bottom-up priority-setting approach -- the
Plank 4 of the new CGIAR Vision and Strategy -- in at least one region as soon as possible on an
experimental basis, with the help of TAC and GFAR and in collaboration with existing national and
regional institutions. At the end of November 2000, the CGIAR Chairman suggested to the TAC
Chairman that TAC should take the lead, in consultation with the centres, GFAR and national and
regional institutions, to select a region for the first effort.