TPT/19/ HOD/6

Background information for Item 6 of the Shepherds/SCCs/HODs Agenda

Updating the TPT-WG Operational Plan

Lead Economies have all been provided with an electronic copy of their relevant sections of the current Operational Plan approved at TPT/18. These should be updated during the meeting as a result of expert/project sub-group activity, cleared by the appropriate Steering Committee Coordinator, and then given to the Lead Shepherd on Wednesday 4 April. The Lead Shepherd will then prepare a new consolidated document for approval by the Plenary meeting on Thursday.

Effective Communications

This Group cannot function successfully intersessionally unless our communications are effective. There are still communication deficiencies occurring, and all HODs are urged to ensure that their economies are not contributing to these. Examples are:

individual email addresses, including commercial email "accounts" such as "hotmail" and "yahoo", being inactive, or size limited, so that messages do not get through,
economies using outdated distribution lists - it can be assumed that the Lead Shepherd's is the most up to date, but see the point immediately below,
economies not advising changes of contact point to the LS and members, and
lack of response to messages, where responses are clearly expected.

TPT-WG Management Team

The terms of the current management team expire at the end of this year and new appointments will need to be made for the calendar years 2002-2003.

Management Role	Incumbent Economy	Comment
Lead Shepherd	New Zealand	Not available for this or any other management role in 2002/2003.
Deputy Lead Shepherd	Philippines	Could rotate to LS on principle of progression. A replacement would then be necessary.
SCC/CT	Australia	Requires reconfirmation or replacement
SCC/SE	United States	Requires reconfirmation or replacement
SCC/HRD	Korea	Requires reconfirmation or replacement

Although decisions are not necessary at this meeting, economies should be giving thought to their ability to assume a management role in the Group in the near future. It is APEC policy to enhance wider participation, shared leadership, and to ensure that more members assume the role and responsibility of Lead Shepherd or Deputy Lead Shepherd Additionally, economies are not expected to serve beyond a maximum of two consecutive two-year terms as Lead Shepherd or Deputy Lead Shepherd.

Of the economies currently in management roles, by the end of this year:

the US will have been either a Shepherd/LS or Coordinator for the life of the Group,

New Zealand will have been a Shepherd, LS/DLS/LS 1995-2001,
Australia and Korea will have been Coordinators 1998-2001, and
The Philippines will have been DLS 2000/01.

Management roles have also been held by Canada (DLS & LS 1998-99) and Indonesia (Shepherd/LS 1990-1998).

The DLS and existing Coordinators should indicate their intentions as to availability in 2002-2003 if possible, and other members may wish to indicate availability for a management role.

This page was last updated on 26 Mar., 2001