The role of the Secretariat is [...] mainly one of facilitation, except perhaps in two areas where it is expected to play a lead role and take responsibility for implementation. These are firstly the development of EGFAR in order to facilitate communication amongst the geographically widespread stakeholders. The other area where it can play a pro-active and lead role is under the advocacy pillar, where it can on one hand drive initiatives to encourage a balanced representation of stakeholders within the regional fora, and on the other hand stimulate debate and discussion on controversial issues of global importance and relevance to ARD, for the purposes of contributing to their resolution. Concrete actions that the Secretariat will carry out under each of the pillars to facilitate their implementation or proactively drive their implementation as the case may be are described [...] ¿