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• To improve its international effectiveness and relevance IIED has established regional advisory panels (RAPs).
• The first of these panels met in Nepal in late March 2000, followed by meetings in Accra, Ghana in September 2000 and in Buenos Aires, Argentina, scheduled for April 2001. The development of the panels is expected to take a couple of years, allowing for lesson learning and adapting the model.

• The RAPs are led by a core steering group of IIED Board members from the region, (in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe) and include other individuals who are working in collaboration with IIED programmes.

• They are a diverse group of researchers and development workers with an intimate knowledge of IIED.
• They have a commitment to improving or strengthening existing programme and project partnerships.
• They are ‘linked in’ to the issues and realities of the region.
• RAPs will also assist in compiling and validating a region and sector-specific database/e-listserve of environment and sustainable development practitioners working with IIED and for its overlapping networks.

• The scope and potential for regional and cross-sectoral exchanges, learning and information sharing, assessing the needs and concerns of the region, and anticipating future agendas.
• The panels will report to the annual Board of IIED through a nominated Board member.

• The overall aim is to establish greater trust and concerted action for improving the impacts of aid and of development in the region — and to build more focus, depth and inclusiveness into IIED’s work, partnerships and governance.

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