Programme Committee

Schedule of the Programme Committee and Joint Meeting Recommendations and Status of Follow-up Action

Reference

Recommendation

Status

CL 119/11
paras. 8 and 12

Medium Term Plan 2002-2007

The Committee

• encouraged a more appropriate choice in the use of the three types of programme entitiy; and
• encouraged the refinement of the PAIAs in order to sharpen their focus.
   

These comments have been taken into account in the preparation of the Medium Term Plan 2004-09 to be presented to the Eighty-eighth session of the Programme Committee.

CL 123/11
para. 52

Medium Term Plan 2004-2009

The Committee requested that it be provided at its next session with information on those FAO activities which were expected to be funded from extra-budgetary resources, relating such activities to the programme priorities in the medium term.
 

This information has been provided in the Medium Term Plan 2004-09 to be presented to the Eighty-eighth session of the Programme Committee.

CL 123/11
para. 39

The Thematic Review of FAO’s Training Activities

The Committee noted that a further update addressing the issues raised in the report was expected to be submitted to the Committee at its next session in September 2002.
 

This update will now be presented to the Programme Committee in May 2003.

CL 123/11
para. 28

The Evaluation of the Special Programme for Food Security

The Committee requested a follow-up report at its May 2003 session on progress made in implementing the SPFS and in introducing the many positive changes that management had referred to in its responses to the report.
 

A follow-up report will be submitted to the Programme Committee in May 2003.

CL 120/14
para. 45

Evaluation of FAO’s Policy Assistance

Regarding the implementation of the recommendations of the evaluation, the Committee requested a follow-up report be prepared for its attention in about two years time.
 

A progress report on the implementation will be submitted to the Programme Committee in 2003.

CL 123/11
para. 32

Future Evaluation Reports

The Committee recommended that in future, evaluation reports include in an annex the terms of reference for the evaluation as well as the names of the evaluation team and external review panel.
 

This has been taken into account in current and for future evaluation reports.

CL 121/3
Para. 37

Evaluation Topics for the period 2002 to 2005

The Committee recommend the following eight topics to the Director- General:

I. Topics for Thematic Evaluations Related to the Corporate Strategies

• Normative work and field operations for Strategy A.3 (Preparedness for, and effective and sustainable response to, food and agricultural emergencies).

• For Strategy B.1 (International instruments concerning food, agriculture, fisheries and forestry and the production, safe use and fair exchange of agricultural, fishery and forestry goods): the joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme (Codex Alimentarius).

• Selected Activities in support of Strategy D.1 (Integrated management of land, water, fisheries, forest and genetic resources).

II. Topics for Thematic Evaluations Related to the Strategies to Address Cross-Organizational Issues:

• Decentralization of FAO's Programme and Services;

• Strategy for Communicating FAO's Messages.

III. Selected Individual Programmes (including related Field Programme):

• Programme 2.1.2 (Crops) - covering crop production components;

• Programme 2.1.3 (Livestock) - excluding animal health;

• Programme 2.2.2 (Food and Agricultural Information) - activities related to Agricultural Statistics in the context of FAOSTAT.
   

Those recommendations without a specific comment will be acted upon in the two biennia 2002-03 and 2004-05.

This evaluation will be presented to the Eighty-eighth session of the Programme Committee in September 2002.

This evaluation will be presented to the Programme Committee in May 2003.

This evaluation will be presented to the Programme Committee in September 2003.

This evaluation will be presented to the Programme Committee in May 2003.

CL 123/11
para. 44

Feasibility of Developing Preliminary Information on Programme of Work Proposals to COAG, COFI and COFO

The Committee recommended that consideration be given to the harmonisation of the functions of the three Technical Committees in the context of the standing item of the Joint Meeting agenda on Savings and Efficiencies in Governance.
 

Given the crowded agendas of the Committees in the second year of the biennium and the reletively low priority of this work, it is recommended that this activity be postponed for the present.

CL 123/11
para. 59

The Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme (Codex Alimentarius)

The Committee asked that the FAO membership be kept informed of progress in the evaluation through appropriate means, including an update to the Committee in September and reports to the Codex Executive Committee.
 

An update will be presented to the Eighty-eighth session of the Programme Committee.

CL 123/8
para. 7

New Arrangements for Enhancing FAO’s Presence at Country Level

The Committees requested that the issues raised under this item be addressed in the Evaluation of FAO’s Decentralization Process to be submitted in September 2003.
 

The issues raised will be addressed in the forthcoming evaluation of the decentralisation process.

CL 123/8
para. 8

Savings and Efficiencies in Governance

The Committees decided to defer further discussion on reform of the General Debate during sessions of Conference until their Joint Meeting in September 2002, by which time they would have benefited from the experience gained from the Round Tables and Multistakeholder dialogue that would form part of the World Food Summit: five years later (10 to 13 June 2002).
 

A paper discussing possible new arrangements will be presented to the Joint Meeting in September 2002.