FAO: The Challenge of Renewal - November 2007
01/11/2007
Attached is the summary of the Independent External Evaluation Final Report of the FAO. The G77 summary has attempted to simplify a long, highly detailed document while endeavouring to include many of the more complicated yet essential concepts and strategies. In this spirit, each and every one of the IEE’s recommendations from the original document are included, although many have been reduced to their bare essence. Each chapter includes a brief summary, followed by the recommendations. Summaries have been designed to give as broad an oversight as possible of each chapter. The difficulty in preparing this document was to achieve balance between the need to address changes made to the report since the draft version and the fact that this is a final document which will be consulted long after the draft version is forgotten. Therefore changes from the draft report to the final report have not been charted within the document. However changes deemed to be substantial have been amalgamated in the table on the following page for your ease. This summary is too brief to deal with many of the minor amendments to the final document, so only the paragraph numbers of redrafted sections have been included to allow members to investigate them for themselves. Nor does the table contain paragraphs which have had cosmetic alterations if they are judged to not alter the context of the report. If there are any concerns, comments or suggestions, please give us a call at our office 06-570-54882 and we will do our best to address them. You can also find us in room A-133 where we will be happy to be of help.