Report of the Sixth Meeting of the CGIAR Finance Committee

Report of the sixth meeting of the CGIAR Finance Committee, held in Lucerne, Switzerland in February 1995 after the end of the Ministerial level meeting. Committee Chair Michel Petit reported on this meeting at the CGIAR Mid Term Meeting in May 1995. This written version was circulated in advance. An update by the CGIAR Secretariat on the 1995 financing plan is appended.Under the heading of follow up to the Ministerial-level Meeting, the Committee discussed plans for the approval of the 1996 research agenda and related funding requirements at MTM95, development of a longer term financial strategy, financing of new CGIAR activities in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and fundraising among nontraditional, nonpublic sources. Also on the agenda were the status of the 1995 financing plan, and requests from CIAT and CIMMYT for relief from the impact of revaluation of local currency in Mexico and Colombia.Agenda document at the CGIAR meeting of May 1995.