United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed twelve members and four alternates of the Advisory Group for the new CERF on 28 April 2006. Click here for more information on the call for Nominations to CERF Advisory Group as well as the press release on the appointment of the Advisory Group. The CERF Advisory Group is established, as an independent body, to provide periodic policy guidance and expert advice  to the Secretary-General on the use and impact of the Fund. Click here for the Advisory Group Terms of Reference.

This includes reviewing the timeliness and appropriateness of fund allocations, examining fund management and administration and assessing fund performance based on the objectives set by the General Assembly.  The Advisory Group may also make recommendations on fund levels and replenishment.

The CERF Advisory Group held its first meeting in New York on 23 May 2006. Click here for CERF Advisory Group Meeting Minutes.

The Advisory Group held its second meeting in Geneva on 12 October 2006 where the Group, inter alia, discussed the 2007 goal for the CERF.

Click here to read the press release.

Click here for a note on the outcome of the second meeting of the Advisory Group and for the briefing by ERC Jan Egeland and Marika Fahlen, Chairman, CERF Advisory Group.

 [Last Update: 26 June 2007]

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