New members join PCFV!!

PCFV welcomed three new members in the first quarter of 2008 raising the total current membership of the Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles to 108 partners.

The new Partners, World Food program (WFP) a United Nations body, The Regional Environmental Center for the Caucasus (REC-Caucasus) and Caucasus Environmental NGO Network (CENN) were warmly welcomed by the Advisory Group of the PCFV.

The welcome invitation to new members saw two of the new members, WFP represented by its CEO, Dominic Grace and REC-Caucasus, represented by a Programme Manager, Keti Samadashvili, in attendance at 6PM, in Beijing on April 10-11, 2008.

Brief new Member profiles:

Established in 1963, WFP is the food aid arm of the United Nations and is the world's largest international food aid organization combating hunger in underdeveloped nations with severe food shortages. The frontline stretches from sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East to Latin America and Asia & the Pacific. WFP helps Victims of natural disasters, displaced people, the world's hungry poor, and believes that women are the first solution to hunger and poverty.



The Regional Environmental Centre for the Caucasus - REC Caucasus is an independent, not-for-profit, non-advocacy foundation registered in spring of 2000, following the decision made at the Sofia Ministerial Conference in 1995, to work for environment and sustainable development in the Caucasus region .REC Caucasus assists the Caucasus states in solving environmental problems and supports the building of civil society through promotion of public participation in the decision-making process, development of free exchange of information and encouragement of cooperation at national and regional level among NGOs, governments, businesses, local communities and all other stakeholders.




The Caucasus Environmental NGO Network is a non-governmental, regional organization established in 1998 and specialized in the fields of civil society development and institutional strengthening, environmental research and policy, resources management, compliance management and communication and environment. Since its establishment, CENN has worked at the local, national and regional levels in the Caucasus region. It has joint activities and projects implemented regionally, where all three South Caucasus countries – Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia participated.