The members of the External Review Panel wish to express their deep appreciation to the Board, management and staff of IRRI for their full, frank and open cooperation throughout the Review. The arrangements made for our visits to the Headquarters and national programmes were excellent, and we were treated as friends everywhere we went. The background documents prepared for the Review by IRRI were wholly satisfactory.
Dr. Klaus Lampe, Director General, Dr. Michael Goon, Deputy Director General, Finance and Administration, and Dr. Kwanchai Gomez, Head, Liaison, Coordination and Planning, fully cooperated with the TAC and the CGIAR Secretariats throughout the Review, from its planning stages through to the completion of this report. They deserve our special thanks for ensuring that our work could be done under optimal conditions at all times.
We are grateful to Ms. Ann Drummond, of the TAC Secretariat, and Ms. Ceres M. Pasamba, Assistant Manager, Administration, for their excellent work in supervising the typing and preparation of this report. They were most ably assisted in their tasks by Ms. Maridel O. Dolores, Ms. Yolanda Mendoza, Ms. Leonisie L. Cartina, Ms. Diadema G. Bonilla, Ms. Marissa Toyhacao, Ms. Benita M. Pangan, Ms. Rosemarie Velasquez, Mr. Alfredo E. Bacorro, Mr. Elmer Salazar and Mr. Antonio Capacete. We thank Mr. Marco Van den Berg, Mr. Nester Fabellar and Mr. George Patena for making sure that all our desk computers remained in satisfactory working order throughout.
