Agenda

Schedule of Work for the Session

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

Contribution from a Non-Member State

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

Status Report on Principal and Interest Payments

Programme of Work and Budget of IFAD for 2000

Capital Expenditure Budget of IFAD

IFAD's Involvement in the Heavily-Indebted Poor Countries Debt Initiative (HIPC DI) and its Enhancement

Terms of Reference and Rules of Procedure of the Evaluation Committee

Resources Available for Commitment

Cameroon: National Microfinance Programme Support Project

Guinea: Programme for Participatory Rural Development in Haute-Guinée

Nigeria: Roots and Tubers Expansion Programme

Senegal: National Rural Infrastructure Project

Mozambique: PAMA Support Project

Uganda: Area-Based Agricultural Modernization Programme

Zambia: Forest Resource Management Project

Zambia: Smallholder Enterprise and Marketing Programme

China: Qinling Mountain Area Poverty-Alleviation Project

Guatemala: Rural Development Programme for Las Verapaces

Honduras: National Fund for Sustainable Rural Development Project (FONADERS)

Nicaragua: Technical Assistance Fund Programme for the Departments of León, Chinandega and Managua

Albania: Mountain Areas Development Programme

Republic of Moldova: Rural Finance and Small Enterprise Development Project

Yemen: Al-Mahara Rural Development Project

Provisional Agenda for the Twenty-Third Session of the Governing Council

Technical Assistance Grant to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) for the Multi-Donor Food Security and Rural Development Hub

Technical Assistance Grant to the Centre for Studies and Development Promotion (DESCO) for the Programme for Strengthening the Regional Capacity for Monitoring and Evaluation of Rural Poverty-Alleviation Projects in Latin America and the Caribbean (PREVAL) – Phase II

Technical Assistance Grant to the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) for the Regional Programme for the Development of South-American Camelids – Phase III (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru)

Technical Assistance Grant to the Corporation for Regional Rural Development Training (PROCASUR) for the Regional Rural Development Training Programme (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay)

Planned Project Activities 1999-2000

Progress Report on the Global Mechanism of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa

Progress Report and Forecast by the Popular Coalition to Eradicate Hunger and Poverty: Empowering the Rural Poor through Improved Access to Productive Resources

Invitation of Observers to Sessions of the Governing Council

Emoluments of the President

Arrangements for the Sixty-Eighth Session of the Executive Board

Direct Financial Contribution to IFAD by Sources Other than Member States

IFAD's Year 2000 Compliance Programme

Special Financial Arrangements with the Government of the Italian Republic

Report on the Allocation of the 1999 Contingency

Detailed Programme Design Phase

Minutes of the Sixty-Eighth Session of the Executive Board

Closing statement by President Al-Sultan