Proposal #18: Self-nomination.

I propose to exclude the need for nomination in all CISV International's election (both for IEC and IJR).

Rationale

I believe that in this way we would descentralize the responsibility of searching volunteers to assume key leadership positions on the organization (that nowadays lies mainly on the trustees and NJRs when coming to the IJRs) and would provide a more democratic way to people to put their name forward to the board's appreciation (exercising their genuine right to put the their name forward to the positions that they believe they are able to perform). I also believe that this would go towards the strategic goal of avoiding exclusion (in the particular issue of excluding people from the election process) and don't think that this would increase the number of candidates that would make the election unfeasible.

Tiago (BRA)

Background

Following CISV international rules, only people that have been nominated by two CISV countries (trustee or president, I believe) can run for CISV positions, like International Junior Representative, or even CISV President.
Exploring "how to avoid excluding people, groups, NAs, and nations from CISV" is one of the 5 goals that CISV international has decided to focus on within the strategic plan 2005-2009. Please find more on this at the Strategic Planning website.

Proposal #17: Decentralize from Chapters

I propose that any CISV Chapter may host camps in any part of the world, disregarding their location, as long as that doesn't interfeer with the actions of other chapters.

Rational

1) This freedom will decentralize CISV promotion to chapters
2) This will improve chapter cooperation with NGOs (priority 1 of strategic
planning)

Teo (ITA)

Proposal #16: AIM reporter.

I propose that from next AIM (Colombia) on there should be a person reporting back to the CISV world what is happening on a daily (even hourly) basis through the internet. This person should be covered by CISV international's budget or be part of the home staff.

Rationale

The Annual International Meeeting is a great meeting. A whole lot of very motivated CISVers meet, talk, discuss, develop, decide and vote. But then what happens with this information? Some trustees write reports, some observers run workshops in their NAs. Some NJRs (nat. junior representatives) report back to ther NAs - but a whole deal of information is lost on the way.

I personally was lucky attend the first few days of the AIM in Sweden this year, but had to leave. I was really curious how things continued, and was happy one or the other e-mail from my friends there. The Swedish AIM staff ran a great AIM website with a newspaper and daily updates - unfortunately not accesible from outside.

I wish there was one person solely responsible for reporting back to the CISV world what is happening at AIM on a special website, maybe a weblog. This person should visit the committees and see what they are working on, report LIVE from the board of trustees, when they vote on motions, and also publish a few pictures.

I'm sure a whole lot of people would be interested in following what is happening at AIM, and it would also shorten the chain of information spread.

(But maybe this is just a personal view, and most CISVers either come to AIM or don't really care.)

Nick (GER)

Proposal #15: The Evergreen Committee.

I propose that any full or co-opted member of an international activity/programme committee must have participated in a camp-based activity/programme in the prior 5 years. If he/she fails to do this, they have to leave the committee.

Rationale

It is important that people taking care of activities/programs can still relate closely to the reality which they are supervising. Too much time far from the field can detach "committee people" from the real problems.

Teo (ITA)