[governance] IGC

[Fouad Bajwa]

Hi,

I would like to jump into this discussion thread again because I've
worked for a non-profit that applied for this fund and from the last
news they were successful and before you read ahead, please have a
look at this link to clarify what I am saying below:
http://www.undemocracyfund.org/perl-bin/undef/proposal.pl

This is sort of an expression of interest for being considered and
after an organization is short listed, a due diligence process follows
for authenticity and then a round of meetings with possible short
listed/successful parties takes place before the actual allocation of
funds.

Before IGC can attempt to apply for such an initiative, it has to have
an established non-profit organizational structure in place
transformed from its current loosely coupled structure. That is a
charter level change to developing an infrastructure somewhere in the
world.

IGC will have to have a registered/legal non-profit registration and
non-taxable status in some country like the ICC (International
Chambers of Commerce) of the Private Sector multistakeholder group.
Once the project is confirmed, you receive a UN Project Management
guide and financial procedures documents basically another project
management website that has all this listed in detail.

A financial management system, monitoring and reporting system and all
related activities also have to be in place. This is a mass charter
level change and require approvals with consensus before such attempts
are made.

I think IGC could receive in-kind support, contributions without
financial reporting obligations or assistance for members to
participate in IGF process meetings but going for these kinds of work
as if there was a democratic change to be brought would be a huge
hassle for change in IGF as well as would question IGC's primary role
as a Civil Society multistakeholder group?

My two cents of observations................my help is available to
fill such a proposal.......i've done for some bilateral institutions
in the recent past.

-- Fouad

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:
> On funding sources for the IGC, the UN Democracy Fund has its fourth round of
> funding open until the end of the year.  It seems that funding the IGC would
> fit well within the funding criteria, including that of "Civil society
> empowerment ... activities that strengthen civil society capacities to
> participate in democratic processes, including umbrella organizations and
> institutional interfaces between civil society and the State."
>
> http://www.un.org/democracyfund/Docs/4thRound_ProjectProposalGuidelines_English.pdf
>
> I would suggest the IGC consider putting in an application, which I could help
> with if others agree.
>
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