Agenda

Report of the Chairperson of the Evaluation Committee on the field visit to the Philippines

Report of the Chairperson of the Evaluation Committee on the fifty-first session of the Evaluation Committee

Appointment of the Director of the Office of Evaluation

Afghanistan: Country strategic opportunities programme

Resources available for commitment

Cape Verde: Rural Poverty Alleviation Programme

Kenya: President's memorandum – Central Kenya Dry Area Smallholder and Community Services Development Project – Amendment to the loan agreement and reallocation of loan proceeds

Mauritius: Marine and Agriculture Resources Support Programme

President's memorandum: Request for a waiver of the policy on taxes for: (1) Agricultural Services Support Programme (loan no. 642-TZ) in the United Republic of Tanzania; (2) Agricultural Sector Development Programme - Livestock: Support for Pastoral and Agro-Pastoral Development (loan no. 672-TZ) in the United Republic of Tanzania; and (3) Agricultural Support Programme (loan no. 690-MZ) in Mozambique

India: Mitigating Poverty in Western Rajasthan Project

Philippines: Second Cordillera Highland Agricultural Resource Management Project

Panama: Participative Development and Rural Modernization Project

Grants under the global/regional grants window to CGIAR-supported international centres

Grants under the global/regional grants window to non-CGIAR-supported international centres and organizations

Grant under the global/regional grants window to the Global Mechanism of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), for the programme for Designing Integrated Financing Strategies for UNCCD Implementation in Selected Countries of Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean

Planned project activities 2008-2009

Report on the organizational session of the Consultation on the Eighth Replenishment of IFAD's Resources

Report of the Working Group on the Performance-based Allocation System

Report on the status of contributions to the Seventh Replenishment of IFAD’s resources - Seventh report

Report on IFAD's investment portfolio for 2007

Report on IFAD's investment portfolio for the first two months of 2008

Status report on arrears in principal, interest and service charge payments

Estimated principal and net service charge payments forgone as a result of the implementation of the Debt Sustainability Framework

Requirements for the twenty-ninth drawdown of Member States contributions in 2008

Report of the Audit Committee

Consolidated financial statements of IFAD as at 31 December 2007

Invitation of observers to sessions of the Governing Council

Minutes of the ninety-second session of the Executive Board

Lifting of Restriction of Executive Board papers EB 2000/70/R.9 and EB 2000/70/R.27 in line with IFAD Policy on the Disclosure of Documents

Comparison of Multilateral Development Banks approval procedures for project loan and grants

Arrangements for the ninety-third session of the Executive Board

Memorandum of understanding with the African Development Bank and the African Development Fund

Republic of Mali Implementation of the second cycle of the Sahelian Areas Development Fund Programme under the Flexible Lending Mechanism

IFAD action in support of least developed countries

2007 Grants under the global/regional and country-specific grant windows approved by the President

List of documents for the ninety-third session of the Executive Board

Republic of Peru Project for Strengthening Assets, Markets and Rural Development Policies in the Northern Highlands (Sierra Norte)

Progress in IFAD's implementation of the 2007 triennial comprehensive policy review

Summary of project, programme and grant proposals discussed by the Executive Board

Closing statement by the President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development Mr Lennart Båge at the ninety-third session of the Executive Board

Minutes of the Ninety-third Session