Associate Status within the CGIAR

TAC Secretariat note reviewing consideration in TAC and the CGIAR of the issue of whether to grant certain institutions or activities within them special recognition or associate status on the basis of the significance of their work to that of CGIAR centers. A CGIAR Secretariat memorandum on the same subject, and a summary of discussion in the CGIAR meeting of November 1977 are annexed. Agenda document, TAC Nineteenth Meeting, June 1978.