Pre-Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) and Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) 17th

The Pre-SOM and SOM-17th Meetings were finished by CTI-CFF. The Regional Secretariat put together this particular meeting, which was held virtually. The vice chair of the committee of senior officials, H.E. Acacio Guterres, director general for fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Comoro, Dili, Timor Leste, presided over the opening speech of the Pre-SOM, which was given by the executive director of the regional secretariat.

Several updates on the major subjects were discussed during the Pre-SOM, including:

• Governance Working Group
• Internal Resource Committee (IRC)
• Governance Working Group
• Financial Resources Working Group (FRWG) Governance Working Group
• Monitoring And Evaluation Working Group (MEWG)
• Technical Working Group
• CTI-CFF Partners
• Cross-Cutting Initiatives

As Chair of the CTI-CFF Committee of Senior Officials, H.E. Dr. Melchior Mataki, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management, and Meteorology, Honiara, Solomon Islands, gave welcome and opening remarks, which were also used to chair this Senior Official Meeting. The main points of this Senior Officials' meeting 17th are:

• Chair's Report
• Country Reports
• Address By The Executive Director Of Regional Secretariat
• Governance Working Group: Internal Resource Committee
• Governance Working Group: Monitoring And Evaluation Working Group
• Technical Working Group: Workplan And Budget
• Cross-Cutting Initiatives
• CTI Partners Presentation
• Ministerial Meeting Agenda And Joint Ministerial Statement
• Review Of Chair's Summary Of SOM-17 And Closing

There was a different agenda for the 17th Senior Officials' Meeting, namely the "Ministerial Meeting Agenda and Joint Ministerial Statement," where the handover ceremony from CTI COM was held.