Agenda

Schedule of Work for the Session

Status of Contributions to the Fourth Replenishment of IFAD’s Resources

Report on IFAD's Investment Portfolio for 1998

Report on IFAD's Investment Portfolio for the First Quarter of 1999

Status Report on Principal and Interest Payments

Audited Financial Statements of IFAD - 31 December 1998

Requirements for the Twentieth Drawdown of Members’ Contributions in 1999

Requirements for the Twelfth Drawdown from the Special Resources for Sub-Saharan Africa (SRS) in 1999

Report of the Audit Committee

Progress Report on the Project Portfolio

Resources Available for Commitment

Mali: Proposed IFAD Contribution to the Republic of Mali under the Heavily-Indebted Poor Countries Debt Initiative

Burkina Faso: Rural Microenterprise Support Project

Ghana: Upper-East Region Land Conservation and Smallholder Rehabilitation Project — Phase II

Burundi: Rural Recovery and Development Programme

Mauritius: Rural Diversification Programme

Uganda: President's Memorandum: Use of Savings for the Cotton Sub-sector Development Project (Loan 360-UG)

Bangladesh: Smallholder Agricultural Improvement Project

India: Bihar-Madhya Pradesh Tribal Development Programme

Viet Nam: Ha Tinh Rural Development Project

El Salvador: Rural Development Project for the Central Region (PRODAP-II)

Jordan: Yarmouk Agricultural Resources Development Project

Sudan: North Kordofan Rural Development Project

Technical Assistance Grants for Agricultural Research and Training by CGIAR-Supported International Centres

Technical Assistance Grant for Agricultural Research by a Non-CGIAR-Supported International Centre

Technical Assistance Grant to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for the Subregional Project for the Integration of Aquaculture into Irrigated Small-Farming Systems for Southern Africa

Technical Assistance Grant for IFAD Assistance to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)/Netherlands Conference on the Multi-Functional Character of Agriculture and Land (Maastricht, 13-17 September 1999)

Grant to the Global Mechanism of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa (CCD) for Special Resources for the CCD Finance

Technical Assistance Grant for the Programme of Activities Leading to the Publication of IFAD’s Rural Poverty Report, 2000

Planned Project Activities 1999-2000

Progress Report on Evaluation

Report of the Evaluation Committee

Progress Report on the IFAD/NGO Extended Cooperation Programme (ECP)

Arrangements for the Sixty-Sixth Session of the Executive Board

Briefing Paper on Cooperation Between IFAD and WFP: Combining Microfinance with Food Aid

Interim Report on the Global Cassava Development Strategy

Technical Assistance Grants for Agricultural Research, Other Research, Training and Other Approved by the President

Financial Highlights for the Year Ended 31 December 1998

Results of the Workshop on IFAD's Strategic Focus on Poverty

IFAD Policy and Strategy for Grant Financing

Working within a Common Development Agenda: Global Development Partnership Frameworks and IFAD’s Relationship to the United Nations Reform Process

General Conditions for Agricultural Development Financing

Memorandum of Understanding between the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, and the International Fund for Agricultural Development Regarding the Modalities and Administrative Operations of the Global Mechanism

Minutes of the Sixty-Sixth Session of the Executive Board

Closing statement by President Al-Sultan