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Strategic Framework, FY 2008-2012 IV. Implementation The CEPF implementation arrangements are designed to build on lessons learned during the first phase, to enable continued expeditious, efficient support to diverse civil society groups, and to establish a clear and effective chain of accountability for results. The approach allocates authority, responsibility, and accountability purposefully among different stakeholders, while ensuring important linkages between different levels of the program. As recommended by the independent evaluation, CI will continue to administer the program through the CEPF Secretariat. The organization hosts the CEPF Secretariat and ensures that all funds are managed with due diligence, efficiency, and the same degree of care it uses in the administration of its own public funds. The CEPF Executive Director is a CI senior vice president, who reports to both the CEPF Donor Council and to a selected individual from CI’s Executive Management Team. CEPF will also retain its overall structure of a Donor Council and Working Group, as well as Regional Implementation Teams based in the hotspots. The Donor Council, comprised of senior representatives from each CEPF donor institution, reviews and approves each annual spending plan; recommendations by CI for consideration of priority ecosystem profiles to be prepared; and each ecosystem profile. The Council approves any amendment to the CEPF Operational Manual. In addition, the Council creates and approves the conditions under which donors take part in the Council. The members also elect the chairperson. The Working Group, comprised of representatives from each donor institution, provides guidance to the Secretariat on strategy development, monitoring, and other aspects of implementation. The members also act as advisers to their respective Donor Council representatives and as CEPF focal points for their broader institutions. Guests, including civil society groups that lead the ecosystem profiling processes, grant recipients, and other stakeholders, will be invited to inform relevant topics of discussions. Regional Implementation Teams, comprising civil society groups, lead implementation within the hotspots. The Independent Evaluation characterized this function as “one of the most impressive aspects” of CEPF and the teams in existing investment regions as a “major strength of CEPF, demonstrating the viability of an innovative range of institutional arrangements and providing services that go well beyond grant program administration.” Formerly known as Coordination Units, these teams will now be known as Regional Implementation Teams to reflect their vital leadership in implementation. New Regional Implementation Teams will be selected by the CEPF Donor Council based on terms of reference and a competitive selection process approved by the Council in April 2007. Each Regional Implementation Team will be responsible for implementation of the relevant ecosystem profile and for establishment of a broad constituency of civil society groups working across institutional and geographic boundaries toward achieving shared conservation goals. While strategic oversight will remain at the Secretariat level to maintain focus and the reporting and safeguard standards required by the CEPF donor partners, at a minimum each Regional Implementation Team will be responsible for:
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