Following the discussion on the work programme to promote the accreditation process of National Implementing Entities (NIEs), the Board decided:

(a) That the Manager of the Adaptation Fund Board secretariat shall accept the invitation and attend the 13th meeting of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN), being held in Bamako, Mali, and make a presentation on the accreditation process of NIEs during a side-event on June 24, 2010 there;

(b) That the secretariat would make arrangements to hold a side-event on the accreditation process of NIEs on the margins of the UNFCCC talks to be held in China, in October 2010;

(c) That the secretariat would also make arrangements to hold a side-event to promote the accreditation process of NIEs on the margins of the Climate Change Conference to be held in Cancun, Mexico, in November 2010; and

(d) That the Board may consider intersessionally, once more information is available, attending the climate change conference being organized in Georgia, in September 2010.