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the League of Arab States and supervised Established in 1972, with authorized capital Chairman of the Board is responsible for
by the League’s Board but has its own of KD 150 million, to encourage bilateral formulating ATFP’s management and the
independent budget. It is funded by food production projects between Arab conduct of its daily affairs.
voluntary contributions from Arab States states and to provide an advisory service for General Publications: Articles of
and institutions. agricultural development projects. Closely Association (Arabic); Annual Report
AFTAAAC’s main function is to provide linked with the Arab Institute of Forestry in (Arabic and English); ATFP General
technical assistance for development Latakia, Syria, AOAD has already completed Features (Arabic+ English).
projects in Arab and African countries, some (1350) in-depth technical and feasibility
by sending Arab and African experts on studies in the Arab world to-date.
missions to these countries.

Arab Trade Financing Program Food & Agriculture Organisation of
(ATFP) the UN (FAO)
Arab Gulf Program for United P.O.Box:26799, Corniche Road, FAO Representation Office in Egypt
Nations Development AMF Bldg., 7th Floor, Abu Dhabi, UAE North Africa; P.O. Box 100, 11 El Eslah El
Organizations (AGFUND) Tel: +971 2 631 6999 Zerai Street, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt
P.O.Box 18371, Fax: +971 2 631 6793 / 6316299 Tel: +20 2 3331 6000 /10 - 3375029
Riyadh 11415, Saudi Arabia E-mail: finadmin@atfp.ae Fax: + 20-2-33378563
Tel:(966 11) 4416240, 4414168, 4418888 Web: www.atfp.org.ae E-mail: FAO-EGY@fao.org
Fax:(966 11) 4412962, 4412963 Contact: Mr. Aziz Jabara, Director, Finance Director General: José Graziano da Silva
E-mail: prmedia@agfund.org & Admin. Dept. Contact: Mr Hussein Gadain,
http: www.agfund.org Establishment: In accordance with FAO Representative in Egypt
Bahrain office: resolution No:4/1989 by the board of Headquarters;
P.O.Box 1335, Manama, Bahrain Governors of the Arab Monetary Fund Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
Tel:(+973) 727 013 (AMF) on March 16, 1989. 00153 Rome, Italy
Fax:(+973) 728 597 Chief Executive Chairman of the Tel:(+39) 06 57051
Established: April 18, 1981 Board: Abdulrahman A. Al Hamidy e-mail:FAO-HQ@fao.org
Started operations: 1981 Activity: The objective is to develop and FAO helps develop countries in transition,
President: H.R.H. Prince Talal bin Abdul promote Arab trade and enhance the modernises and improves agriculture,
Aziz Al-Saud competitive ability of Arab exporters. forestry and fisheries practices and ensures
Seven Arab Gulf countries (Bahrain, Iraq, This is achieved by providing refinancing good nutrition for all. Since it’s founding
Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and in the form of lines of credit, to Arab in 1945, FAO has focused special attention
the United Arab Emirates) contribute to exporters and importers, through National on developing rural areas, home to 70
the resources of AGFUND which was agencies designated by central Banks / percent of the world’s poor and hungry
established on the initiative of H.R.H. monetary authorities of Arab countries people. FAO’s activities comprise for many
Prince Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud of (210 agencies in 19 Arab & 5 foreign areas namely putting information within
Saudi Arabia. AGFUND gives grants to countries). Refinancing includes pre- reach, sharing policy expertise, providing
various UN organisations and Arab NGO's export, export and import as well as buyer a meeting place for nations, and bringing
in support of socially oriented projects, credits. Eligible goods are those with knowledge to the field.
especially those designed to benefit value added of at least 40% originating
children and mothers. from primary resources and / or other
domestic production factors of an Arab
country. In its endeavor to enhance the
competitive ability of the Arab exporters
, ATFP renders additional services,
through the Inter Arab Trade Information
Network (IATIN) that provides information
Arab Organization for Agricultural relating to Arab Trade as well as Arab
Development Trade Opportunities. Also through Trade Islamic Development Bank (IsDB)
Road No. 7 buildings Promotion by Organizing the Buyers P.O. Box 5925, Jeddah 21432,
B 474 – Khartoum-11111, Sudan Sellers meetings on Arab goods. Saudi Arabia
Tel: (249 - 183) 472176 - 83 Structure: The General Assembly is the Tel: (+966 12) 6361400
Fax:(249 - 183) 471402 / 471050 highest authority. The Board of Directors Fax: (+96612) 6366871
Email: info@aoad.org consists of eight directors elected by E-mail: info@isdb.org
Contact: Dr. Yahia Bakour, Director the General Assembly for a three years http: www.isdb-pilot.org
General renewable term under the chairmanship Established: April 23, 1975
AOAD Office in Jordan of the Director General and Chairman Started Operations: October 20, 1975
P. O. Box 19082 Amman 11196 - Jordan of the Board of the Arab Monetary Fund. Contact: H.E. Dr. Bandar Hajjar, President,
Tel: (962 - 6) 5521406 - 5521407 The Board of Directors is responsible IDB Group, Chairman, Board of Executive
Fax: (962 - 6) 5521409 for formulating ATFP’s policy and Directors (He was elected unanimously
E-mail: ERO@aoad.org internal bylaws as well as supervising by the Board of Governors during their
http: www.aoad.org its operations. The Chief Executive and Annual Meeting in Jakarta in May 2016)

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