At the Preparatory Meeting for the Special Development Fund – Seventh Cycle (SDF 7) held on December 9, 2007, Contributors indicated their desire to further examine progress on the Special Development Fund (SDF 6) before proceeding to address issues related to SDF 7. The present paper is intended to provide part of the basis for such examination, together with other papers submitted for the First Formal Negotiation Meeting for the Replenishment of the Unified Special Development Fund [SDF (U)].
These include progress reports on the Poverty Reduction Strategy; the Mid-Term Evaluation of the Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF) 5; the Corporate Human Resources Report; and a Status Report on the Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB) efforts at institutional strengthening.