On the 13th October, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Libya launched the preparation of its first ever Country Programme Action Plan (CPAP) at a workshop at the Radisson Blu hotel in Tripoli. The session brought together over 35 government officials representing various General Peoples Committees and government authorities and UNDP Libya programme staff. The CPAP workshop was co chaired with Essam Garba from the General Peoples Committee of Planning Finance and is the first in a series of meetings aimed at identifying concrete development initiatives and programmes within the areas of strategic cooperation reflected within the framework of the new Country Programme (2011-2014) which was approved by the UNDP/UNFPA Executive Board in June 2010.

In her opening remarks, the UNDP Resident Representative, Mrs. Costanza Farina pointed out that the CPAP exercise was an important event as it ‘serves as an instrument to clarify more in details the key strategic cooperation areas already agreed upon in the Country Programme'.