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GCAP Organizational Structure Proposal post-2007
At the GCAP global meeting in Montevideo on 3-5 May 2007, it was decided that GCAP would continue to operate at least till 2015. With the decision, the Future Structure Task Group was formed and mandated to come up with recommendations on the future structure to be discussed at the GCAP International Facilitation Team and the larger constituencies of GCAP for review and endorsement. See the Key elements of the proposed global structure
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There are five sections in this document. Section I describes the work of the Task Group up to this point; Section II lays out the basic understanding and the overarching philosophy of the new structure; Section III spells out our proposal of the overall structure; Section IV highlights some key considerations in the new structure; and Section V discusses a way forward in finalizing the proposed structure.
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List of all Structure Task Group members and members who participated in the Group’s face-to-face meeting in Oxford, UK, 29-30 August 2007.
The GCAP Future Structure Task Group came in 2007 to the general agreement that 1) it is useful to distinguish between the “legal” hosting and “physical” hosting; and 2) after considering different options, particularly the risks, liabilities and potential conflict the legal hosting could possibly entail, it would be unavoidable and adequate to create an independent legal organization for the global secretariat, whereas the “physical” hosting (or housing) arrangements can be constructed separately. We also came to believe that, with proper structure in place, this independent legal registration could be handled with a minimum negative impact on GCAP’s strength in its diversity, spontaneity, political strength and leadership, dynamism and flexibility.
The formalization of GCAP structures will be gradual in nature and minimalist in scope. This recommendation was made because both the group and IFT felt that it was essential to have some form of legal registration for accountability and fundraising.
We request you (whether national coalitions, regional groups and constituency groups) formally express your acceptance or rejection of the recommendation to formally register the GCAP Global Foundation in the Netherlands. As there are clearly time sensitivities involved, please respond to Irfan Mufti, copying your regional secretariat before the 17th April.
Given that the best option of legal registration is in the North, the Transition Committee has recommended that the IFT, in line with the Montevideo decision, arrange for the ‘physical or operational’ hosting of the GCAP Global Secretariat to be in the Global South in order to maintain GCAP’s global political identity, strength, autonomy and dynamism.
All documents of the 2008 GCAP Regional and National Consultations
