Objectives
The Stakeholder consultations among members of the regional and sub-regional fora of the NARS will
take place both on Friday, May 23, 2003 (17:30 ¿ 18:30) and on Saturday May 24, 2003 (8:00 ¿
10:00). These sessions will allow the NARS participants to discuss a variety of topics of particular
interest to the NARS constituency, in addition to suggested topics ranging from capacity building to
re-engineering of the NARS Committee. Like the rest of the GFAR stakeholders, the NARS will
discuss the GFAR 2003 Conference in depth bearing in mind the objectives listed below:
1. Evaluation of the organization of the conference and its outputs by the NARS constituency;
2. Prepare a NARS Stakeholder Statement to be delivered at the Closing of the conference;
3. Discuss a range of issues that the NARS consider critical for the development of the GFAR
Program of work for coming three years.