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["Gareth Williams" <<address removed>>]

Dear participants,

I am working on producing the second moderator's summary of the growth and
poverty discussion group.  Before, doing this I would like to deal with a
few process and housekeeping issues.

1) Rebalancing the growth and poverty group

Following Felicity Proctor's recent message suggesting that the 
contributions on extension fit better in the "science and 
technology" group and the contributions on cooperatives and farmer 
organisations in the "economic opportunity" group, I will try to cover 
some of the issues raised in these discussions in the next 
summary, but in future they will be covered by the moderators of 
the other two groups.  

2) Extension of the e-forum

It has also been announced that the e-forum will be extended by 2 
weeks. Contributions will now be accepted until Friday May 28, 
with the final synthesis to be produced by June 7.  This should give 
us enough time to have a really full discussion and to cater for the 
level of interest in this group.  In my last message I had proposed 
that we needed to narrow down the discussions with a view to 
reaching conclusions and recommendations.  I think that the extra 
time makes this less urgent, and we can continue a free 
discussion along the lines of the theme outline.  I expect that there 
are still fresh issues to be raised, so it would not productive to 
restrict the discussion at this stage.  However, participants' 
suggestions on how to focus the discussions in the final two weeks 
would be much appreciated.  

3) Keeping track of discussions

It would be very helpful if participants could make it clear in the 
subject line what topic they are dealing with, or whose contribution 
they are commenting on.  As the number of contributions expands, 
it is becoming hard to follow threads in the discussion.  

That is enough on process issues for now, and I will get on with producing
the summary.

Kind Regards

Gareth Williams

Rue des Pâquis 15
1201 Geneva
Switzerland

tel: 0041 22 732 2372
mob: 0041 78 611 8589

email: <address removed>
web: www.garethwilliams.info


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