Annual Meeting 2006 Berlin, 4-5 May 2006

 reminding EastAgri’s raison d’être  achievements since last year  workshop’s objectives

what is EastAgri? network of practitioners involved in agribusiness & agricultural investment from: IFIs donors private banks

why EastAgri?  improve exchange of information  share lessons learned  coordinate policy messages  coordinate interventions

key members

light structure  communication officer: Nada.Zvekic@fao.org  website: http://www.eastagri.org  annual meetings  thematic and country-specific workshops

members’ benefits easier access to information advertise events / publication access to performance of past projects and lessons learned more impact on policy matters

expansion eastward CEI ETC

website maintenance maintenance of database (550 projects, 24 subsectors) 220,000 hits in 2005 (100,000 pageviews) 45 articles dispatched

thematic meetings Serbia agribusiness seminar rural credit guarantee schemes Polish/Ukrainian wholesale markets Georgia wine sector

2006 annual meeting main session four round tables: theme and country focus networking

our goals? encourage information sharing cross-fertilization of ideas suggestions for next phases

If you try again and again, you always end up making it If you try again and again, you always end up making it. Therefore: the more you fail, the more chances you have to make it.