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Corporate Strategy on Capacity Development

Year of publication 2010

Pages 6p.

Author Office of Evaluation

Product type Meeting

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Th is paper introduces FAO ‟s Corporate Strategy on Capacity Development as recently approved by the Director-General, summariz es the important aspects of the strategy ( see Annex ), and request s guidance on aspects of its implementation. The strategy is presented to the Programme Committee at the same time as the “ Evaluation of FAO’s activities on capacity development in Africa ” 4 , which has many recommendations relating to its implementation in a global context; the Committee ma y wish to take account of the findings of that Evaluation and the Management Response when considering the corporate CD strategy.

Meeting symbol PC 104/3

Meeting Session Number Sess. 104

Language English

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