12-13 January: Workshop on Communities of Practice (CoP) for pro-poor livestock and small-scale fisheries and aquaculture development

20-22 January: Knowledge "Share Fair" or Agricultural Development and Food Security

26-27 January: High Level Meeting on food security for all

18-19 February: 32nd session of the Governing Council

1-4 March: Asia and the Pacific annual performance workshop

16-22 March: World Water Forum

31 March - 2 April: Gender and rural employment: Differentiated pathways out of poverty

2 April: 104th session of the Audit Committee

8 April: 55th session of the Evaluation Committee

18-20 April: G8 Agriculture Ministers' meeting

26 April: 79th meeting of the Development Committee

27-28 April: Executive Board informal seminars

29-30 April: 96th session of the Executive Board

6-7 June: African Union (AU) Conference of Ministers of Economic and Finance and the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development

13 June: G8 Finance Ministers' meeting

22 June: Audit Committee Informal session

22 June: 105th session of the Audit Committee Informal session

23 June: 56th session of the Evaluation Committee

8-10 July: G8 Summit

13 July: 106th Session of the Audit Committee

13-14 July: Conference on Intellectual Property and Public Policy Issues

20-21 July: 57th session of the Evaluation Committee

1 September: 107th Session of the Audit Committee

4 September: Fifty-eighth session of the Evaluation Committee

10-11 September: EB Informal Seminars

14-15 September: 97th session of the Executive Board

28 September - 2 October: BSF 25th anniversary

5 October : 80th meeting of the Development Committee

9 October: 59th Session of the Evaluation Committee

22-23 October: International forum on remittances 2009

5 November: 108th Session of the Audit Committee

16-18 November: World Summit on Food Security

17-19 November: Annual Conference of Global Donor Platform

1 December: 59th Session of the Evaluation Committee

7-18 December: Climate Change Conference (COP15) 

14-15 December: Executive Board informal seminars

16-17 December: 98th session of the Executive Board