The 2nd Inter-Regional Consultation was held at CLAES, ARC, Cairo, Egypt from
the 10th to the 11th of May 2005, to enable RAIS stakeholders of Regional Fora to achieve
the following objectives:
a) To present and discuss their respective regional Plan of Work and Budget (POW&B)
for 2005 in the area of ICM for ARD and the development of their RAIS
b) To take stock of existing initiatives and discuss fresh initiatives from the Regional
Fora in the area of ICM for ARD in order to launch collaborative platforms between
and amongst RAIS
c) To define priorities for GFAR financial support for (i) regional activities and (ii)
inter-regional activities within collaborative platforms
d) To define a consistent output oriented list of activities and related budget for each of
these collaborative platforms that either GFAR Secretariat can support within its own
2005 POW&B or define complementary proposals, consistent with the ICM4ARD
proposals leading to fund raising activities where GFAR Secretariat could play a
leading role
2. The agenda of the Consultation is included as Annexure 1.1. The list of
participants at the Consultation is included as Annexure 1.2.