2020 General Meeting and Motions

There are a number of matters that require Member decision-making. These decisions can be made at General Meetings or by electronic voting.  We hold an in-person General Meeting at our Global Conference every three years.  This year, we will hold our first virtual General Meeting.  Information and material for that meeting can be found here.

Any proposal for action to the Members is called a “Motion”.  Motions can be made by any Member, Promotional Association, Honorary Counsellor, the Governing Board or the Secretary General.

Those entitled to vote are the full Members of CISV International: each National Association via their representative (NAR) and the Junior Branch via the two International Junior Representatives (IJR). Any individual CISVers involved locally, nationally, or internationally are welcome to take part in the discussion and are encouraged to talk to their respective National Representatives and to the International Junior Representatives, whose vote they can influence.

More information on the meeting procedure and matters that require a Members’ vote can be found in CISV International’s Articles of Association (Info File C-01) and in CISV International’s Rules of Procedure for Members’ Meetings and Voting (Info File C-19).

12 motions were presented this year in draft form and open for discussion for six weeks.  There was then an opportunity to review and finalize them.  One was withdrawn.  Final versions were submitted by 29 July and will go forward for voting at the General Meeting.  There were changes made to three motions (Motions 02, 07 and 10).  They are listed below in two versions – one that shows the changes made (With changes) and one that has the changes included in the text (Final).

Five of them (motions 1-5), are part of a long process that CISV International has been discussing over the last few years, the Programme Review. They are here presented through a “motion package” that explains in more detail the rationale, the process, and how these link to each other. However, formally they will be voted on as individual motions and they are available individually further down the page.

Minutes of General Meeting

• Minutes of General Meeting August 2020 Approved

Notice of General Meeting

• Virtual General Meeting 2020

Motions

• Motion 01 – 05 2020 Programme Review Motion Package*
• Motion 06-2020 Travel Insurance Cost
• Motion 07-2020 Extraordinary Fee (With Changes)
• Motion 07-2020 Extraordinary Fee (Final)
• Motion 08-2020 Change to Leader Age
• Motion 09-2020 Postponement of Interchange Decision
• Motion 10-2020 Changes to IPP participant age (With Changes)
• Motion 10-2020 Changes to IPP participant age (Final)
• Motion 12-2020 Guidance on Charity Objectives (as stated in C-01)

*Individual Programme Review Motions

• Motion 01-2020 Programme Review – CISV’s international programmes are for under 18s
• Motion 02-2020 Programme Review – CISV offers camp-based programmes (With Changes)
• Motion 02-2020 Programme Review – CISV offers camp-based programmes (Final)
• Motion 03-2020 Programme Review – CISV offers one programme per age group
• Motion 04-2020 Programme Review – Add one delegation to Step Up
• Motion 05-2020 Programme Review – Make delegation-based Youth Meeting have 8 delegations of 4

Timeline

Outcome

On 22 August, CISV International successfully held its first Virtual General Meeting. The results of the voting by our Members is as follows:

*Since Motion1a(i) passed, the Chairs called for a procedural vote to withdraw Motion 10; this procedural vote passed and therefore Motion 10 was withdrawn.