Meeting Summary

SOME PROPOSALS TO ENHANCE EGEDA'S CAPACITY TO OVERVIEW
THE ACTIVITIES AND RESEARCH AGENDA OF APERC

1.In presenting its research proposals for the next year to EGEDA, APERC will:

  • Indicate in what way each project supports the goals of APEC. Support will be established by reference to declarations and statements by APEC leaders, energy ministers, senior officials (SOM) and/or EWG
  • Prepare a planning document (such as a GANTT chart) to demonstrate how the suite of new projects and ongoing activities (e.g. projects underway, technical assistance program) are to be completed within stated timelines and with available resources. The planning document should indicate, for each project, the start date, completion date, milestones, resources applied and relationship to other APERC activities

2. For each project, EGEDA will create an advisory group, comprised of interested EGEDA members or their designates. The group will work with the principal researchers, providing them with technical and methodological advice and information regarding the conduct of the study. It is expected that the group will communicate electronically to review the outline, the methodology, the early results and the drafts of the paper. It should be emphasized that the advisory group is not, in any way, intended to compromise the independence of APERC in carrying out its research.

3. In developing the outlook, APERC staff will meet at least once with researchers from each member economy to review the outlook results for that economy. The review will be undertaken at a sufficiently early stage of the outlook process to allow for changes if necessary. The EGEDA member in each economy will organize the review.

4. Prior to publication of the outlook, APERC staff and each interested member of EGEDA will work together to:

  • Identify and explain, where possible, the major differences between the official national forecast and the APERC forecast for the member economy
  • Develop an appropriate media advisory to provide context and explanation for the results and the differences

5. Normally, the first proposal would require APERC to produce material in advance of the annual EGEDA meeting. As this is not possible for the current meeting, APERC will be asked to prepare the necessary material for the current project proposals by March 25, 2003.EGEDA members will review the material by March 31, 2003 in order that the Chair may prepare his report to the EWG by April 2, 2003.