IICA Executive Committee to hold 2008 annual meeting

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The Executive Committee holds a regular meeting each year, normally at the Institute’s Headquarters.

IICA Executive Committee to hold 2008 annual meeting

Closing sessions will be held at CATIE, in Turrialba.

Delegations from 17 countries will be meeting in Costa Rica from 22-24 July to take part in the Twenty-eighth Regular Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA).

The following twelve Member States comprise the Executive Committee this year: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Dominica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Saint Lucia, the United States of America and Venezuela.

On the first two days, all the sessions will take place at IICA Headquarters. On day three, the participants will travel to CATIE, in Turrialba, where the fourth plenary and closing sessions will be held, followed by a meeting of CATIE’s Governing Council.

This is the first time that an Executive Committee meeting has been divided up in this way. It is a further example of the importance that IICA and CATIE attach to joint efforts aimed at creating synergies and complementing their capabilities to achieve more effective cooperation for the Member States.

During the activity, IICA Director General Chelston Brathwaite will be presenting information about the joint actions undertaken by the Institute and CATIE in 2007, while the Director General of CATIE, Jose Joaquin Campos, will present the Center’s annual report for 2007 and his Administration’s Plan of Action for 2008-2012.

Topics on the agenda

One of the main topics discussed will be the progress made in executing the recommendations for enhancing the Institute’s technical capabilities. The Executive Committee is expected to give the present and future management of IICA a mandate to enhance its expertise in order to meet the new technical cooperation needs of the organizations’ Member States.

Other topics to be addressed at meeting of the Executive Committee include IICA’s 2007 annual report, which details the progress achieved in implementing the Institute’s 2006-2010 Medium Term Plan (MTP); and the reports of the Special Advisory Commission on Management Issues and the status of the resolutions of the Executive Committee’s Twenty-seventh Regular Meeting.

IICA’s Financial Statements for 2007 and the Report of the External Auditors will also be presented. For the fourth consecutive year, the external auditors recommended that the financial statements be approved without comments, demonstrating the transparency with which the institution manages its funds.

The Executive Committee will be studying the proposed 2008-2009 Special Program Budget, designed to strengthen the Institute’s priority actions in areas such as agrotourism, horizontal cooperation, agricultural insurance, training for leaders, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, and the modernization of IICA’s infrastructure.

The participants will also discuss the status of the resolutions of the Fourteenth Regular Meeting of the IABA and the preparations for the Fifth Ministerial Meeting on Agriculture and Rural Life of the Americas that will be taking place in Jamaica in 2009.

The Committee will also discuss the progress made in implementing the Leadership in Agriculture Program and the Declaration of Young Leaders of Agriculture of the Americas will be presented.

There will also be a dialogue entitled Food Security in the Americas.

For more information, contact
fernando.del.risco@iica.int

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