CGIAR Center Directors Committee Minutes, Presiding Chair: J. Williams
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The Miinutes of the 26th Center Directors Meeting, October 1995, provide center directors approval to proceed with the cataloguing and microfiche project for the system, present a lengthy discussion on training in Africa, a decision to develop a position paper on seeds detailing IARC activities in this area, budgets and the need for closer linkage between programming and budgeting and the first CGIAR management training course for centers to be conducted by O’Hare and Associates. The Minutes also contain a report of the Information Officers meeting, the positive feedback on the CGIAR newsletter as a means of informing people from diverse backgrounds of the CG’s activities, a report of the Benefits Committee with information on group insurance plans and retirement plans, a report on the progress of the CGNET project and a report of the Fund Raising Committee on matters related to the donors day initiative, strategy for Saudi Arabia, IFAR and blocked currencies and center contribution to the fund raising unit.