WOCAN needs your vote to win an observer seat at the Forest Investment Program. The next steps in the selection process are as follows:
Step 1: Your organization’s application, along with the applications of several other candidates, will be included on the ballot for your region’s seat on the committee or subcommittee.
Step 2: On Tuesday, January 3, 2012, RESOLVE will open the voting process and circulate an announcement to the nonprofit civil society community. The announcement will contain a link to a site where CSOs can register to vote. The registration process will generate a link to the official ballot. Voting will be open from January 3 to January 24, 2012. During that time, non-profit CSOs will have an opportunity to vote for observer candidates from their geographic region (Africa, Asia, Developed Countries, and Latin America).
Step 3: When the vote closes on Tuesday, January 24 at 11:59 pm GMT, RESOLVE will review both the election results and the considerations for balance (developed in consultation with civil society members) and make final selections for each committee and subcommittee. (Balance considerations include gender, region, NGO type [policy/think tank, advocacy, community-based organizations, and aid organizations] and adequate inclusion of CIF pilot countries). The objective is to ensure the final selections meet as many of the established criteria as possible.
RESOLVE will announce final results of the selection process by Tuesday, January 31.
As a reminder: CIF observer seats are unpaid positions and, according to the CIF observer process guidelines, travel costs to attend the Climate Investment Fund meetings may only be covered for observers from developing countries. Developed country organizations must be prepared to cover the costs of their representative’s travel to CIF meetings.
Please encourage your civil society colleagues to vote in this selection process. Note, however, that each organization may vote ONLY ONCE. If more than one vote is received from an organization, only the first vote will count. Large organizations with multiple country offices will be allowed ONE VOTE PER REGION. Representatives of government agencies, industry, and private citizens unaffiliated with a nonprofit civil society organization are NOT eligible to vote.
If you have questions, please contact RESOLVE — Kate Kopischke at kkopischke@resolv.org.