Board Decisions

GF/B39/DP09

Approved by the Board on: 10 May 2018


CCM Evolution: Code of Conduct for CCMs and CCM Policy

The Board:

  1. Notes the recommendation of the Ethics and Governance Committee of a Code of Conduct for Country Coordinating Mechanisms (the “CCM Code”), developed in furtherance of the Ethics and Integrity Framework adopted by the Board at its 32nd Meeting (GF/B32/DP09);
  2. Approves the CCM Code, as presented in Annex 4 in GF/B39/04- Revision 1;
  3. Based on the recommendation of the Strategy Committee (“SC”), decides that no less than the amount of USD 1,219,700 should be made available over a three year period to fund the implementation and enforcement of the CCM Code, as described in GF/B39/04- Revision 1;
  4. Recognizes that the Audit and Finance Committee approved USD 50 million as available sources of funds (“Available Funds”) to finance prioritized and costed areas of need on the register of unfunded quality demand, as per GF/AFC04/DP01, and based on the recommendation of the SC, (i) decides that the amount of USD 1,219,700 of such Available Funds be used instead to fund the implementation and enforcement
    of the CCM Code, and (ii) decides to add CCMs as a “Strategic Initiative” to the list of catalytic investment priorities presented in Table 1 of GF/B36/04 – Revision 2;
  5. Based on the recommendation of the SC, decides to replace the Guidelines and Requirements for Country Coordinating Mechanisms, as approved by the Board under GF/B23/DP17, with the CCM Policy as set out in Annex 3 of GF/B39/04- Revision 1 (the “CCM Policy”); and
  6. Delegates authority to the SC to approve amendments to the CCM Policy, and requests the Secretariat to operationalize the CCM Policy and regularly report on its implementation to the SC.

Budgetary Implications

Budgetary implications: USD 1,219,700.