Date

Event

Organizers

Program/Unit/ Project Activity

Focal Point

Venue

16-21 January

Workshop on INRA new agro-biodiversity strategy

INRA-Morocco/ CWANA

UMD/ E04

LS, ID, AB, GA

Marrakech, Morocco

29 January-

2 Feb.

USAID/ ‘Regional Consultation on Linking producers to Markets’

USAID, Cairo

DfLP/ E02

AG

Cairo, Egypt

19-21 Feb.

AARINENA/ ISHS

’ The 3^rd International Conference on Date Palm’

Global Date Palm Network/ UAE University

DfLP/E01

NN, RK

Al Ain, UAE

3-5 Feb.

IDRC/CRDI/AUB/ESDU/ibsar

‘Regional Workshop on Biodiversity

As food’.

AUB, Beirut, Lebanon

DfLP/E03

SP/IHZ

Beirut, Lebanon

8-10 Feb.

Priorities & Strategies Committee (PSC) I/O6

HQ

ODG

GA

HQ, Rome

11-15 Feb.

Leadership development course (Retreat)

HQ

ODG

GA

Retreat outside Rome

26-27 Feb.

Regional planning meeting, Aleppo

CWANA

CWANA  in  E11, E01, 02, 03, E04 E05 E13 E14 E15

GA

Aleppo, Syria

10-13 March

GRPI-Egypt project phase II initiation workshop

Egypt

Policy Unit/ CWANA /E13

GA/MH/RR

DRC, Cairo, Egypt

3-5 April

CGIAR/CAC Program Steering Committee 

PFU/ICARDA, Tashkent

CWANA E11

MT/GA

Tashkent, Uzbekistan

3-7 April

IPGRI Institutional Planning week

HQ

All

SP/AB/KD/RK/AHH

Rome, Italy

30 April and 7 & 14 May

Teaching at postgraduate  programme, Faculty of agriculture, Aleppo university, Aleppo, Syria

CWANA

E14

KD, SP, AIB,AB and GA

Faculty of Agriculture, University of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria

24-27 April

Workshop on "Management and Development of Renewed Natural Resources"

Faculty of Agriculture, Aleppo University, Aleppo, Syria

E14

AHH/EG

Faculty of Agriculture, Aleppo University

25-27 April

Community of Sahel States ‘ Conference on seed industry in Africa’

Libya

CWANA /PA Unit 

RK

Tripoli, Libya

26-29 April

Bio-vision 2006 : New life sciences: changing lives

BibAlex

E03

TH

Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt

23-24 May

AOAD General Assembly meeting

AOAD

CWANA

GA

Cairo, Egypt

June

PANAB meeting

Morocco/ CWANA

PA unit/ E14

RK

Rabat, Morocco

28 May- 2 June

Meeting of the Advisory Group to consider the 2^nd Draft of the Regional Conservation Strategy

CWANA

E11

GA

Aleppo, Syria

25-26 June

AARINENA 10th General Conference and SC meeting, Sana'a, Yemen.

AARINENA Sec.

E11/ CWANA

GA/AHH/KD/AB

Sana’a, Yemen

26-28 June

FAO/IPGRI / AARI-Turkey Training workshop on Seed Handling in Gene banks.

FAO/IPGRI/CWANA

E14/ CWANA

ED, AB, EG and GA

AARI, Menemen, Izmir, Turkey

28 June

Nabk Biodiversity garden project/ First SC meeting

CWANA

E01/ Nabk Swiss grant

RK,OG,AHH,GA

Nabk, Syria

3-7  July

PSCII/O6

HQ

ODG

GA

Rome, Italy

17-23 July (Postponed)

INRA-Morocco/ IPGRI Policy training workshop

Policy Unit/ HQ

E04 –INRA Morocco programme/ E13

MH, JM

Rome, Italy

25-27 August

IYDD Event: UNCCD International Symposium on dry lands.

UN University/ UNCCD

?

UNU /Tottori University, Japan

25-31 August

GRPi-Egypt project: Economic valuation study: consultancy of Dr Edilengaw Wale

GRPi-Egypt national coordinator

E13

GA

SEKEM, Egypt

17-21 September

Workshop on Efficient Water Demand Management.

UNESCO/ISESCO

UMB

AB

Sharm ElSheikh, Egypt

20 September and  18-19 September respectively

CATCN-GR Coordination  committee & TRUST regional conservation strategy meetings

PFU / CWANA

E11/CATCN-GR

MT, GA

Tashkent, Uzbekistan

10-14 October

GRPi-Egypt  Training of Trainers workshop Policy of Genetic Resources Management

GRPi-Egypt

E13/ CWANA

MH, RL, GA

Siwa Oasis, Egypt

4-22 November

International training programme on PGR in Iran:

-          In situ and ex situ conservation strategies 4-8 Nov.

-          Support of local seed supply and small scale seed enterprises 11-15 Nov.

-           GR rights and institutional policies  18-22 November

Generation CP /CIMMYT/ICARDA/ AREO-SPII/WAGEN.UNIVERSITY

?

CIMMYT

AREO/SPII, Karj, Iran

20-23 November

46^th Annual Science week  Conference I on ‘ Sustainable agricultural development and food security’

CWANA

E14???/ PA / CWANA

RK

Lattakia, Syria

20-24 November

PSCIII/06 & Associated meetings

HQ

Instt.

GA

Rome, Italy

27 November – 7 December

IYDD Event: Regional Training workshop on ‘Plant Genetic Resources to combat desertification: the role of gene banks’

HQ

E14/ SSA/ CWANA

EG, ED, GA, RK, 

International Training Centre, Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Dokki and DRC , El Arish, N. Sinai, Egypt

December

IYDD Event: UN University’s International Conference on ‘Desertification and international policy imperatives’

UN University

?

Algiers, Algeria