Report of the Seventh Meeting of the CGIAR Oversight Committee

Report of CGIAR Oversight Committee on its seventh meeting, which was held in Lucerne, Switzerland on February 10-11, 1995 at the conclusion of the CGIAR Ministerial-Level Meeting. There was also a joint session with the CGIAR Finance Committee.The Committee discussed the outcome of the Ministerial-level meeting and the CGIAR change process. It saw a danger of overloading the system with committees and task forces and decided to look in more depth at this question. The meeting also considered systemwide programs and initiatives, the FAO plan for a world food summit, and IFPRI's 2020 Initiative. It decided to consider papers on the roles, responsibilities and operations of center boards at its next meeting. Under the heading of due diligence, it discussed the search process for the TAC Executive Secretary, Egypt's offer of facilities to ICLARM, and center board chair appointments.Agenda document, CGIAR Mid Term Meeting, May 1995.