[governance] IGF Funding and Executive Coordinator Position Issue

[Avri Doria]

below in the 6th sentence : I mean executive coordinator position.

a.

On 16 May 2011, at 11:48, Avri Doria wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> As I understand it, from the outside, there is a chicken and egg situation.
> 
> Many of the funders won't release the funding until they know what is happening.
> And UN DESA can do much without funding.
> 
> So trust is required between UN DESA and the funding community.  And that seems in short supply.
> 
> I have no idea what they are doing about advertising the executive director position.  At the last 'MAG' meeting the DESA representative announced they would be posting a job announcement, and though I keep looking for it, I have not seen it.  Of course I don't know if it is still their intention to post an announcement for this position.
> 
> (once i heard a rumor that they had already picked someone, but was never able to confirm that, so i figure it wasn't true.  then again who knows, when you all look up at the dais later this week there may be a shinny new  Chair and an Executive Coordinator - deus ex machina style.)
> 
> 
> But I did understand that perhaps some funding was released for the secretariat - though of course it is impossible to be sure.
> 
> This issues seems like an excellent topic to bring up in the open consultations.
> 
> a.
> 
> 
> 
> On 16 May 2011, at 11:24, Fouad Bajwa wrote:
> 
>> I bumped into a govt participant of the IGF and during our discussions
>> we wandered into the issue of IGF Funding which to date stands on
>> cross roads as there hasn't been any funding made to the IGF support
>> fund by any govt or private sector or cs partner and much more stress
>> were the European funding commitments as was the case in the past.
>> 
>> This leads to the issue of hiring someone for the position of the
>> Executive Coordinator of the IGF Secretariat as it is a UN procedure
>> to first have the funding in place before advertising an executive
>> level position such the EC for IGF Secretariat. This would further go
>> down to supporting the activities and participation that were
>> supported by the IGF.
>> 
>> This is an important concern so far as it affects the sustainability
>> of the IGF. This might also be an important discussion point during
>> the open consultation and possible mag meeting this week.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Regards.
>> --------------------------
>> Fouad
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