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Schedule and Sponsorship of Regional Implementation Planning
(RIP) Meetings
There’s broad consensus that the most critical factor in moving towards effective coordination by RECs and direct implementation by countries of the CAADP agenda is the need to ensure empowerment and establish ownership at the regional and national levels. In addition to the process-centered objective of establishing ownership, the RIP meetings also have a technical objective, which is to bring about agreement on the main components of the CAADP investment programs and initiatives for each region, including resource requirements, detailed implementation action plans, coordination arrangements, and target launch dates.
A series of 4 RIP meetings are scheduled as follows:
- East and Central Africa, 25-28 January 2005, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The lead regional co-spoouth Africa, 15-18 February 2005, Maputo, Mozambique. Sponsored in collaboration with the SADC Secretariat;
- West Africa, 15-18 March 2005. Lead regional co-sponsors are ECOWAS, the Conference of Agricultural Ministers of West and Central Africa (CMAWCA), and CORAF;
- North Africa, 12-13 April 2005. Co-sponsorship arrangements for North Africa are being finalized by the Secretariat.
All meetings will be co-sponsored by NEPAD and the G8, together with the respective RECs, and lead sub-regional research organizations (SROs) that are identified above. The regional meetings will be followed by a continent wide meeting to be held at the end of April, which will be attended by all RECs. This meeting will serve as a wrap up and also as the forum to define continental agriculture priorities
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