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Arab Forum for Rural Advisory Services Outcome Note

Year of publication 2023

Place of publication Rome, Italy ; Cairo, Egypt ;

Pages 5p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Synopsis (short abstract) FAO Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa in collaboration with International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), has organized a regional meeting to discuss the vision, mission and roadmap towards the establishment of the Arab Forum for Rural Advisory Services (AFRAS). The meeting took place in Cairo, Egypt, on 24 and 25 July 2023. The Forum is envisaged to operate under the umbrella of the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS), hence joining the array of existing regional networks of RAS across the globe. Deliberations focused on the roadmap for the establishment of AFRAS which was developed with the support of a voluntary advisory group of experts facilitated by FAO. They also focused on the priority functions for AFRAS, viable institutional format, operational and technical modalities. FAO, jointly with IFAD, will communicate to ministries of agriculture through its country offices the outcomes of the meeting and will solicit interest and support from stakeholders in member countries towards the official a launch of AFRAS, tentatively envisaged in the first months of 2024. The meeting discussed and agreed on the vision and mission of AFRAS as outlined below, as well as on AFRAS values and principles, areas of thematic focus and priority functions.

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