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Constituent Meetings of the Consortium of Non-Governmental Organizations of Central Asia and South Caucasus (CNGO-CAC) under CACAARI
Date: 2009-10-16 12:00:00
Constituent Meetings of the Consortium of Non-Governmental Organizations of Central Asia and South Caucasus (CNGO-CAC) and the Consortium of Farmer Organizations of Central Asia and South Caucasus under CACAARI (CFO-CAC) were held on October 14 and 15 2009 in Business Center “Poytakht”, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. About 20 participants attended the two meetings chaired by the CACAARI Chairperson Acad. Hukmatullo M. Ahmadov. The purpose of each meeting was to gather all concerned agricultural organization representatives throughout the CAC region around the table and discuss issues relating to agricultural research for development in the region. Participants also were able to provide their inputs into the GCARD process. Last, but not the least, the founding Charters of the Consortia were discussed and approved at the meeting.
The two meetings had identical programs, but with different participants each day. The CACAARI Chairperson Ahmadov gave introductory presentations on CACAARI to the participants. Among other things the presentations focused on the necessity of expanding the membership of CACAARI to include NGOs dealing with agriculture, farmer organizations, educational and private sector institutions. Following the Chairperson’s presentation, Dr. Zakir Khalikulov, Acting Head of Program Facilitation Unit of the CGIAR Program for Sustainable Agriculture in CAC (CGIAR-CAC) and Acting Regional Coordinator of ICARDA-CAC made a presentation on the CGIAR-CAC Program. He briefed participants on Program’s aims, main activities and achievements. Dr. Ajit Maru, Senior Officer from GFAR (Global Forum on Agricultural Research) talked to the participants about changes in agriculture globally, as well as about changes in the way agriculture was researched and financed. The presentation on the GCARD process in CAC was made by Dr. Surendra Beniwal, Lead Consultant for CACAARI. Dr. Beniwal’s report included the highlights of the Regional Review of Key Agricultural Issues in CAC, the e-consultations. Mr. Anvar Rahmetov, Assistant Executive Secretary of CACAARI, made a presentation on the future perspectives for each Consortium. Thereafter, he presented the draft version of each Charter for discussion by the relevant participants of that day.
After the presentation, the participants were given the opportunity to go together through the whole Charter clause by clause, for either approving it or proposing modifications. At the end of the meeting the participants adopted the Charters of CFO and CNGO, and agreed on the future steps of the Consortia. More information on the presentations and the Resolution on Consortia Charters, as well as the Minutes of the meetings are available through the CACAARI Secretariat (a.rahmetov@cgiar.org) or the website www.cacaari.org
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