This CEI Plan of Action (PoA) covers a three-year period (2010 to 2012). Since it was adopted for the first time in 1998, the CEI Plan of Action has guided the thinking and the course of the organization over the past years, as crucial initiatives, activities and projects evolved. It was felt essential to integrate the evolving process within the larger process of development. Therefore, since its inception, the CEI PoA has incorporated priorities from a development perspective, taking into account not only national and regional, but also global trends as well as the guiding principles set down by major CEI high-level meetings.

The CEI PoA is a well-known framework for development of activities and projects proposed or initiated by the CEI Member States, the CEI Networks of Focal Points and other CEI bodies or institutions in the CEI Member States in the CEI areas of activity. It also describes the various CEI instruments available for the implementation of the PoA.

(Taken from the Foreword)