The Global Environment Facility (GEF) will hold its annual council meeting to discuss, inter alia, relations with other conventions, the operational programme for prevention and control of desertification and deforestation through sustainable land management, monitoring and evaluation, and the Facility’s business plan.  

dates: 14-16 May 2003  
location: Washington, District of Columbia, US  
contact: GEF Secretariat  
phone: 1-202-473-0508  
fax: 1-202-522-3240  
e-mail: secretariatofgef@worldbank.org  
www: http://gefweb.org/Whats_New/C.21.1_Provisional_Agenda.doc