Enabling poor rural people
to overcome poverty



Agenda item 2

EB 2008/95/R.1/Rev.1 Agenda

Agenda item 3

EB 2008/95/R.2/Rev.1 Programme of work, Programme Development Financing Facility and administrative and capital budgets of IFAD and its Office of Evaluation for 2009
EB 2008/95/R.3 Report of the Audit Committee on the Programme of work, Programme Development Financing Facility and administrative and capital budgets of IFAD and of its Office of Evaluation for 2009

Agenda item 4

EB 2008/95/R.4 A voluntary separation programme for IFAD 2009–2010

Agenda item 5

EB 2008/95/R.5 Report of the Chairperson on the fifty-third session of the Evaluation Committee
EB 2008/95/R.6 Report of the Chairperson on the informal and the fifty-fourth sessions of the Evaluation Committee
EB 2008/95/R.7 + Add.1 Annual Report on Results and Impact of IFAD Operations evaluated in 2007

Agenda item 6

EB 2008/95/R.8/Rev.1 Report on IFAD’s Development Effectiveness

Agenda item 7

EB 2008/95/R.9/Rev.1 Progress report and activity plan for IFAD’s country presence

Agenda item 8

EB 2008/95/R.10/Rev.1 IFAD’s participation in the Debt Initiative for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries

Agenda item 9:  Country strategic opportunities programmes

EB 2008/95/R.11 Ethiopia: Country strategic opportunities programme
EB 2008/95/R.12 Guatemala: Country strategic opportunities programme
EB 2008/95/R.13/Rev.1 Guinea: Country strategic opportunities programme
EB 2008/95/R.14 Indonesia: Country strategic opportunities programme
EB 2008/95/R.15 Morocco: Country strategic opportunities programme

Agenda item 10

EB 2008/95/R.16 + Add.1 Resources available for commitment

Agenda item 11:  Project/programme proposals for consideration by the Executive Board

EB 2008/95/R.17/Rev.1 Democratic Republic of the Congo: Integrated Agricultural Rehabilitation Programme in Maniema Province
EB 2008/95/R.18/Rev.1 Ghana: Rural and Agricultural Finance Programme
EB 2008/95/R.19 + C.R.P.1/Rev.1 Mauritania: Value Chains Development Programme for Poverty Reduction
EB 2008/95/R.20/Rev.1 Niger: Agricultural and Rural Rehabilitation and Development Initiative Project – Institutional Strengthening Component (ARRDI-ISC)
EB 2008/95/R.21/Rev.1 Kenya: Supplementary Loan in Support of the  Southern Nyanza Community Development Project
EB 2008/95/R.22/Rev.1 Swaziland: Rural Finance and Enterprise Development Programme
EB 2008/95/R.23/Rev.1 United Republic of Tanzania: Supplementary Loan in Support of the Agricultural Sector Development Programme
EB 2008/95/R.24/Rev.1 China: Dabieshan Area Poverty Reduction Programme
EB 2008/95/R.25/Rev.1 Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Sustainable Natural Resource Management and Productivity Enhancement Project
EB 2008/95/R.26/Rev.2 Philippines: Rapid Food Production Enhancement Programme
EB 2008/95/R.27/Rev.1 Tajikistan: Khatlon Livelihoods Support Project
EB 2008/95/R.28/Rev.1 Viet Nam: Pro-Poor Partnerships for Agroforestry Development Project
EB 2008/95/R.29/Rev.1 Belize: Rural Finance Programme
EB 2008/95/R.30 Bolivia: President’s memorandum - Management of Natural Resources in the Chaco and High Valley Regions Project - Expansion of the project area and target group
EB 2008/95/R.31/Rev.1 Brazil: President’s memorandum - North-East Rural Family Enterprise Development Support Project - Modifications to the loan agreement
EB 2008/95/R.33/Rev.1 Guatemala: Sustainable Rural Development Programme for the Northern Region
EB 2008/95/R.35/Rev.1 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of: Orinoco Delta Warao Support Programme
EB 2008/95/R.36/Rev.1 Bosnia and Herzegovina: Rural Livelihoods Development Project
EB 2008/95/R.37 The West Bank: President's memorandum - Report on the Participatory Natural Resource Management Programme financed from the IFAD Fund for Gaza and the West Bank
EB 2008/95/R.38/Rev.1 Yemen: President’s memorandum - Pilot Community-Based Rural Infrastructure Project for Highland Areas - Modification to the financing agreement

Agenda item 12:  Grant proposals for consideration by the Executive Board

EB 2008/95/R.39 Grant under the global/regional grants window to the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) for the Strategic Partnership to Develop Innovative Policies on Climate Change Mitigation and Market Access
EB 2008/95/R.40 Grant under the global/regional grants window to a CGIAR-supported international centre
EB 2008/95/R.41 Grant under the global/regional grants window to the International Land Coalition for the programme Putting a pro-poor land agenda into practice
EB 2008/95/R.42/Rev.1 Grants under the global/regional grants window to non-CGIAR-supported international centres
EB 2008/95/R.43 Grant under the country-specific grants window to the Foundation of the Peoples of the South Pacific International for the Mainstreaming of Rural Development Innovations Programme in the Pacific – Phase II

Agenda item 13

EB 2008/95/R.44 Planned project activities 2008-2009

Agenda item 14

EB 2008/95/R.45 Report on the fourth session of the Consultation on the Eighth Replenishment of IFAD's Resources

Agenda item 15: Financial matters

EB 2008/95/R.46 Report on the status of contributions to the Seventh Replenishment of IFAD’s resources
EB 2008/95/R.47 Report on IFAD’s investment portfolio for the third quarter of 2008
EB 2008/95/R.48 Final report on the special expenditure for IFAD’s new headquarters
EB 2008/95/R.49 Report of the Audit Committee 102nd meeting
EB 2008/95/R.61 Report of the 103rd meeting of the Audit Committee

Agenda item 16

EB 2008/95/R.50/Rev.1 Revisions to the General Conditions for Agricultural Development Financing

Agenda item 17

EB 2008/95/R.51 + Add.1 Progress report on implementation of the performance-based allocation system

Agenda item 18

EB 2008/95/R.52 Annual Report on Quality Assurance in IFAD’s Projects and Programmes

Agenda item 19

EB 2008/95/R.60 Human resources reform – a people strategy for IFAD

Agenda item 20

EB 2008/95/R.53 Report of the secretariat of the International Land Coalition

Agenda item 21

EB 2008/95/R.54 Progress report on the Global Mechanism of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

Agenda item 22

EB 2008/95/R.55 Draft provisional agenda and programme of events for the thirty-second session of the Governing Council
EB 2008/95/R.56 Report of the Emoluments of the President

Agenda item 23: Other business

EB 2008/95/R.57 Application for non-original membership
EB 2008/95/R.58 Invitation of observers to sessions of the Governing Council
EB 2008/95/R.59 Proposed dates for sessions of the Executive Board in 2010

Information notes

EB 2008/95/INF.1 Arrangements for the ninety-fifth session of the Executive Board
EB 2008/95/INF.2 United Republic of Tanzania: Implementation of the second cycle of the Rural Financial Services Programme under the Flexible Lending Mechanism
EB 2008/95/INF.3 Agreement concerning the hosting of the Secretariat of the International Land Coalition
EB 2008/95/INF.4 Status report on arrears in principal, interest and service charge payments
EB 2008/95/INF.5 IFAD Initiative for Mainstreaming Innovation - Third Progress Report on the Main Phase
EB 2008/95/INF.6 List of documents for the ninety-fifth session of the Executive Board
EB 2008/95/INF.7 Summary of project, programme and grant proposals discussed by the Executive Board
EB 2008/95/INF.8 Closing statement by the President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development Mr Lennart Båge at the ninety-fifth session of the Executive Board
EB 2008-95-Minutes Minutes of the Ninety-fifth Session