report of INTERNATIONAL PLANT PROTECTION
CONVENTION (IPPC)

The following communication, received on 20 October 2019, is being circulated at the request of the International Plant Protection Convention secretariat (IPPC).

This report provides an overview of the main activities of the International Plant Protection Organization (IPPC) secretariat since the last SPS Committee meeting in July 2019.

1  Governance and Strategies

IPPC Strategic Framework (2020-2030)

1.1.  The fourteenth meeting of the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM-14, 2019) endorsed the IPPC Strategic Framework (SF), 2020-2030 with minor notes for consideration by the authors, a graphical overview is presented in Table 1. The SF was reviewed and endorsed by the Strategic Planning Group (SPG). The new strategic framework details the IPPC mission, vision, goal, three strategic objectives, three core activities and eight development agenda items.

1.2.  The IPPC secretariat has developed a Theory of Change to help contracting parties (CPs) understand their contributions to the Strategic Objectives in the SF, the FAO Strategic Objectives and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. The IPPC secretariat is also in the process of developing a monitoring and evaluation matrix to help measure the implementation of the SF over the next ten years.