The Senior Officials\u2019 Meeting (SOM) is the operational-level mechanism of CAREC. It monitors progress at the cluster and sector levels<\/strong>, and is vested with the authority to consider and endorse complex multi-country and multisector projects. The SOM also serves as a mechanism to ensure the effective implementation of the policy and strategic decisions made by the Ministerial Conference.<\/p>\n

The SOM is convened once a year to prepare for the annual CAREC Ministerial Conference<\/a> . Given the scope and nature of the responsibilities of the SOM, it is made up of senior-level officials from the relevant agency in charge of overall planning or finance. It is preferable for officials to serve on a permanent basis to ensure continuity in approach<\/strong>. CAREC development partners also participate in the SOM. Observers may be invited, subject to agreement by the participants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Senior Officials\u2019 Meeting (SOM) is the operational-level mechanism of CAREC. It monitors progress at the cluster and sector levels, and is vested with the authority to consider and endorse complex multi-country and multisector projects. The SOM also serves as a mechanism to ensure the effective implementation of the policy and strategic decisions made by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":23,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-event.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.carecprogram.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.carecprogram.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.carecprogram.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.carecprogram.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.carecprogram.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.carecprogram.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.carecprogram.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.carecprogram.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}