List of Decisions taken at this IB Meeting

This is simply a short reference list of all decisions made at this IB meeting.  Elaboration and details are provided above.

• Martha Jean Baker (UK) was appointed International Vice President.
• Amparo Guerrero (International Vice President), Ferial Abu Hamdan (Lebanon) & Marie Claire Faray (UK) were appointed to help emerging WILPF core groups become sections by the next WILPF Congress.
• Marlène Tuininga (France) will produce a draft on next steps for WILPF visioning by 6 July 2010.
• The Executive Committee was empowered by the board to make needed decisions for planning the 100th anniversary Congress.
• The Communications Committee is a stand-alone committee
• The Organisational Development Committee was revived with Hannan Awwad (Palestine), Lillian Angelo (Norway) and Inge Stemmler (Netherlands) requested to focus on internal communications and organisational questions.
• Every WILPF working group and committee convenor will write a role description for the members on their committee by 31 March 2010.
• Kirsti Kolthoff (Sweden) will lead an ad hoc working group on Beijing + 15 for the 2010 Commission on the Status of Women.
• Emma Rosengren (Sweden) will lead an ad hoc working group on the nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty Review Conference.  A member of WILPF from the Middle East will also be part of this group.
• The Treasurer is requested to provide detailed information by 30 April 2010 about the specific amounts invested for WILPF international by JAPA, and the funds in which these are invested.
• The 2008 Audit of Geneva funds was approved.
• The 2008 JAPA Audit was approved, with a request that future audits show which funds are which in all the funds JAPA holds, and that an explanatory note be included that shows the dollar amount of fees paid by WILPF international to JAPA as a fiscal sponsor.
• 2010 Budget was approved as drafted, under 5 conditions
• IB Members with connections to funders will make those known to Executive Committee and staff
• Two funding proposals will be submitted by an IB member by 28 February 2010.
• A Prize Committee to submit nominations on WILPF’s behalf was formed
• The IB recommits to the fundraising strategies adopted in 2008.
• All committees and working groups will provide work plans by the end of 2010, to better position WILPF to receive capacity building funding.
• A policy on Corporate Fundraising will be drafted.
• The next Congress will be held in Costa Rica in 2011 with the theme of Food Security.
• The board will respond to a more detailed proposal by the Costa Rican section by 30 March 2010.
• A Congress Organising Group (COG) was approved.
• A Nominations Committee was appointed.
• The Constitution committee is empowered to suggest proposed amendments for discussion and decision to the next Congress.
• The WILPF secretariat will undertake a one year trial with the Democracy In Action membership database.
• The WILPF secretariat is encouraged to continue working toward a general comment from the CEDAW committee on women in armed conflict.
• WILPF sections are encouraged to use the resources and tools available through the partnership with International Women’s Rights Action Watch- Asia Pacific for creating CEDAW shadow reports and presenting these to the committee.
• The WILPF logo shall be used by all sections and entities, this logo should also be retained for events, elaboration on it is fine (as done for the Bolivia Congress in 2007).