Market orientation in the sub-sectors of date palms, olives, cotton and medicinal plants in the AARINENA region
The meeting held in Abu-Dhabi on 22-23 February was designed to move the above process forward by convening an ad hoc working group composed of the promoters of the three project ideas mentioned above and selected resource persons from the region. The objectives of the meeting were the following:
(a) To review the three project concept notes and determine the possibility for financing and execution them as stand alone projects within the AARINENA region;
The adequacy of GPPs as tools with which to effectively and efficiently address stakeholder
concerns was raised during the GFAR 2003 conference in Dakar and later in Mexico in 2004.
The GFAR Steering Committee also recommended that the Secretariat establish clear guidelines
for the development and implementation of GPPs. This review was undertaken to address some
of these doubts and questions.
The objectives of the meeting were to:
- Review the progress made by the different institutions in the field of UOC since the Rome meeting of January 2001.
- Discuss the Terms of Reference for a ¿Global Facilitation Mechanism¿ for UOC
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