Management Team

Composition
The Global Forum’s Management Team consists of the Chair and Vice-Chair of GFAR, the two members of the GFAR facilitating agencies (FAO and IFAD) who are members of the GFAR Steering Committee, the Chair of the Forum’s Donor Support Group, and the Executive Secretary of the Global Forum who acts as the Member Secretary of the Team and the Chair of the Programme Committee.

The Purpose of the Management Team
The Global Forum’s Management Team acts as the interface between the Forum’s stakeholder-led Steering Committee and the Forum’s Secretariat. This arrangement is intended (i) to ensure that the Steering Committee and the Secretariat interact continuously (ii) to strengthen the management capacity of the Forum’s Secretariat, and (iii) to provide an overview of how the decisions taken by the Forum’s Steering Committee are implemented.

The Forum’s Management Team can invite specific members of the Forum’s Steering Committee to any of its meetings when the topics covered relate to the specific constituency of the Steering Committee member in question. They can also invite any member of the staff of the GFAR Secretariat to attend when they feel that his/her support is required. The Chairperson can also invite any expert as an observer if they feel that he or she is need to give valuable inputs into the decision-making process.

The Management Team’s Tasks
The specific tasks undertaken by the Management Committee include the following:

  • Reviewing the progress made by the Forum’s stakeholders and the GFAR Secretariat since the last Forum Steering Committee meeting
  • Reviewing the contacts that the Chairperson and the Vice-Chairperson have made over the period under review.
  • Discussing and agreeing upon the draft GFAR Secretariat Program of Work before it is submitted to the Forum’s Steering Committee.
  • Reviewing the Forum’s financial situation and suggesting necessary budgetary adjustments, when needed.
  • Advising on the agenda for the next Forum Steering Committee meeting.
  • Examining and approving financial contributions made by the Forum within the annual budget approved by the Forum’s Steering Committee.
  • Advising the Secretariat as to how best to orient its efforts.

Management Team


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Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza

Chair of GFAR
Steering Committee
Management Team
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Ruth Oniang'o

Vice-Chair of GFAR
Steering Committee
Management Team
Mark Holderness

Mark Holderness

GFAR Executive Secretary
Steering Committee
Management Team
Secretariat
Shantanu Mathur

Shantanu Mathur

IFAD
Steering Committee
Management Team

Note about the documents below
In some years, we have published only the minutes of the statutory meetings. For enquiries about background documents, please contact us at [email protected]

Documents of the Management Team meetings

Total: 19
Title Author(s) Year Download
Draft minutes from the 22nd GFAR Management Team Meeting 2011 Download document
Draft Minutes from the 21st GFAR Management Team Meeting 2008 Download document
Minutes (Partial) of the 16th GFAR Management Team Meeting held on Wednesday, 10th January 2007 (Afternoon) at FAO Headquarters, Rome 2007 Download document
Minutes of the 17th GFAR Management Team Meeting held on 26th June 2007 at FAO, Rome 2007 Download document
Minutes of the 14th Management Team Meeting held at International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) at 10.00 am on February 17th 2006 2006 Download document
Minutes of the 15th Management Team Meeting held at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1-2 June 2006, Rome, Italy 2006 Download document
12th GFAR Management Team Meeting 2005 Download document
Minutes of the 13th GFAR Management Team Meeting 2005 Download document
Special GFAR Management Team Meeting 2005 Download document
Minutes of the 10th GFAR Management Team Meeting Florence, 17 May 2004 2004 Download document
Minutes of the 9th GFAR Management Team Meeting Florence, 4th ¿ 5th February, 2004 2004 Download document
Minutes of the 8th GFAR Management Team Meeting Rome, February 17-18, 2003 2003 Download document
Minutes of the 7th GFAR Management Team Meeting Rome, January 24-25, 2002 2002 Download document
Minutes of the 6th GFAR Management Team Meeting24 ¿ 25 September 2001, Rome, Italy 2001 Download document
Minutes of the 5th GFAR Management Team Meeting. New Delhi, 11 ¿ 12 February 2001 2001 Download document
Minutes of the fourth GFAR Management Team meeting 2000 Download document
Minutes of the third GFAR Management Team meeting 2000 Download document
Minutes of the first GFAR Management Team meeting 1999 Download document
Minutes of the second GFAR Management Team meeting 1999 Download document