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Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) in the OIC Member Countries for Increasing Agricultural
Productivity." Furthermore, the third meeting Agriculture WG was held in April 2014 in
Ankara with the theme of “Improving the Statistical Capacity of the Agriculture Sector in the
OIC Member Countries”. After that, the fourth meeting of the COMCEC Agriculture Working
Group was held in September 2014 with the theme of “Facilitating Smallholder Farmers’
Market Access in the OIC Member Countries.” Agriculture Working Group gathered its fifth
meeting with the theme of “Improving Institutional Capacity: Strengthening Farmer
Organizations in the OIC Member Countries” in March 2015. The 6th Meeting was held in
October 2015 with the theme of “Promoting Agricultural Value Chains in the OIC Member
Countries.”
Moreover, given the importance of food losses in the Member Countries, the COMCEC AWG
devoted its 7th, 8th and 9th Meetings to different dimensions of this subject which are
respectively on-farm food losses, post-harvest food losses and food waste in the OIC Member
Countries.
Furthermore, the Member Countries having registered to the Agriculture Working Group have
the chance to propose multilateral cooperation projects within the framework of the COMCEC
Project Funding, which is another important implementation instrument of the Strategy. The
projects to be financed under the COMCEC Project Funding need to serve multilateral
cooperation and be designed in accordance with the objectives and the expected outcomes
defined by the Strategy in its agriculture section.
The first Project Call under the COMCEC Project Funding was made in September 2013. Within
the framework of the first project call of the COMCEC Project Funding, the project titled
“Pakistan Bioremediation Model for Wastewater Treatment and Capacity Building Program
among OIC Countries” proposed by Pakistan was implemented successfully and completed in
December 2014. Purpose of the project was to develop capacity for effective biological
treatment and management of wastewater in five OIC member countries namely Pakistan,
Afghanistan, United Arab Emirates, Bangladesh and Turkey.
Moreover, the second Project Call was made in September 2014 and within this framework,
four projects were implemented successfully. These projects were submitted from Chad,
Indonesia, Surinam and Turkey. Project titles and brief information about the projects
implemented in 2015 are as follows;
 Chad implemented a project on “Support to the Agricultural Training Centers” with the
participation of Burkina Faso and Turkey. The project aimed at developing capacities
of young rural farmers and experts working in agricultural training centers.
 The project titled “Improving the income of small and medium scale farmers in the OIC
Member States through Integrated Farming System” was implemented by Indonesia
with three partner countries namely, Sudan, Gambia and Egypt. The purpose of the
project is to enhance the capacity of the small and medium scale farmers in partner
countries through an integrated farming system.