Proposal #40: Chapter Category System.

I propose to create a Chapter Category system to replace the current NA Category System as follows:

FULL CHAPTER: A Chapter that hosts all CISV programmes in the course of 5 years, has an active Junior Branch and hosts Mosaic projects every year.
GROWING CHAPTER: A chapter that hosts some CISV programmes within 5 years.
DEVELOPING CHAPTER: A chapter that takes part in CISV programmes within 5 years.

Only NAs with at leats one full chapter or 5 growing chapters have voting rights at the AIM. The Membership fee to CISV international should reflect the number of full/growing chapters.

Rationale

Most people agree that our current Category system is out-dated for numerous reasons: No NA has ever been downgraded, also the majority of NAs are just one chapter. Furthermore hardly any NAs still fulfill the criteria to be in their respective category. I would like to see a new system that encourages the formation of strong chapters. The main idea behind this is critical mass: 2-3 families cannot run a sustainable organisation, that's why chapters should be encouraged to grow into all areas of CISV. Also a chapter will never understand all aspects of CISV if they only run, villages. A course of 5 years asks a chapter to run one programme almost every year (village, summercamp, seminar camp, maybe soon youth meeting and IPP) plus interchange and Mosaic. Some NAs are organized in a different way, and may prefer to have a bigger number of smaller chapters instead, which should be respected, but not encouraged - hence the voting right for NAs that consist of several developing chapters.

Respectfully submitted, Nick (GER)