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The fifth Regional Coordination Group Meeting (RCG), meeting was
organized in conjunction with the international conference on water
pollution reduction and climate change mitigation: the experiences from
Livestock Waste Management in East Asia Project. The meeting provided
oversight of the project activities in participating countries and the
RFO.
  
In the meeting, Mr Weiguo Zhou, the Task Team Leader from the World
Bank, announced that Mr Jiang Ru, the GEF coordinator in Asia and the
Pacific, will act as a new project Task Team Leader from October 2009
on. Mr Jiang introduced himself to the RCG members and confirmed the
World Bank’s support to the project until the completion in 2010.
Progress of activities in participating countries and the RFO was
discussed. The RFO presented the activities and the progress in
developing two Decision Support Tools (DST) development: STRAW (Support
for the Treatment and Recycling of Animal Wastes) and CoSiMo (Cost of
Compliance Simulation Model).
The meeting stressed that countries need to speed up the activities
in order to reach the project objective before the project completion
in December 2010. The RCG members approved the RFO annual work plan for
2010. The next RCG meeting is planned in May 2010 in Thailand.
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