Introductory Remarks

Distinguished delegates from JITAP partner countries, and from the Permanent Missions in Geneva,

Colleagues from the three agencies, ladies and gentlemen.
It is a great pleasure once again to address this gathering of JITAP managers from the field and Geneva representatives to this management meeting. Normally we organize such meetings in the field but this year, we are holding the Management meeting in Geneva back-to-back with the meeting of the Common Trust fund partners — donors, beneficiaries and agencies. This permits you field managers to participate in the CTF meeting this coming Friday.
JITAP II is now well on course since its launch in February 2003. 2003-04 had delayed implementation due to a number of factors, including the delay in finalizing country project documents, and the preparations for the Cancun meeting. Next year will mainly concentrate on enhanced delivery so as to frontload the implementation activities contained in the JITAP country programme documents.