2. Annual Meeting 2006 Berlin, 4-5 May 2006

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

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

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

6. key members

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

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

9. expansion eastward
CEI
ETC

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

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

12. 2006 annual meeting main session
four round tables: theme and country focus
networking

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

14. 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.