Members / Steering Committee election

Your Voice Counts! Membership Election Starts 22 December

for Three Regional Steering Committee Seats

Two other regional seats filled, while nominations for the Eastern and Southern Africa seat have been extended until by 15 January 2012.

The Steering Committee is the governing body of WSSCC and is elected by you, the individual members. It is accountable for WSSCC’s work to the members and to WSSCC’s donors by deciding the policies and strategies of the organization.

The terms of office for several Steering Committee members have ended, and WSSCC will now hold elections for three of its seats – Middle, Northern and Western Africa (one seat) and Global (two seats) – on the Steering Committee. The elections commence 22 December and will close 18 January at midnight Geneva time:

  • WSSCC members registered in the Middle, Northern and Western Africa region will receive an electronic ballot entitling them to vote for that seat as well as for the two Global region seats.
  • All WSSCC members registered in the Global region will receive an electronic ballot entitling them to vote for the two Global region seats. 

(Members associated with WSSCC’s active partner agencies are not entitled to vote in this election.)

The candidates are:

Middle/North/West Africa region are:


Global region are:

An independent company will run the election under the direction of the Secretariat. Members will be able to vote online on a secure system. For security and confidentiality, members will receive email notifications and be provided with individual authentication code to access to the ballot.

Call for nominations extended for the Eastern and Southern Africa region seat until 15 January

On 16 November, WSSCC informed all members of the possibility to submit nominations for open Steering Committee seats. Nominations were not received for the Eastern and Southern Africa seat, and thus the nomination period for that seat is now extended until 15 January 2012.

To be nominated as a candidate, you must send the completed nomination form, a biography and a manifesto by 15 January to wsscc@wsscc.org. (Please note that the nomination form must be countersigned by five WSSCC members, including a National Coordinator, and that you must have been a WSSCC member for at least two years.)

Results for Eastern/Central Europe-Western/Central Asia region seat and South-Eastern/Eastern Asia region seat

Following the call for nominations on 16 November, unopposed nominations were received for the two regional Steering Committee seats, respectively. Thus:

  • Mr. Akbar Suvanbekov is the new representative for the Eastern/Central Europe-Western/Central Asia region.
  • Mr. Khin Lwin is the new representative for South-Eastern/Eastern Asia region.

 WSSCC welcomes Mr. Suvanbekov and Mr. Lwin to the Steering Committee.

Rules for standing and voting in the Steering Committee election
WSSCC members are eligible to stand and vote in elections for the Steering Committee. All eligibility and procedural information may be found in the WSSCC governance document located here. 

To find out to which region your country belongs please click here.

The Steering Committee is the governing body of WSSCC. It is composed of the WSSCC Chair, 12 elected partner or regional representatives, and various ex-officio members and invitees. The WSSCC Chair is appointed by the Steering Committee through a separate process.

The three partner representatives are elected by the members who work for WSSCC's current active partner agencies (as defined from time to time by the Chair). The constituency is sub-divided into two. Members who work for UN partner agencies are allowed one vote to elect one representative. Members who work for non-UN partner agencies are allowed two votes to elect two representatives. This sub-division is to satisfy WSSCC's host agency's legal requirement for UN representation on the Steering Committee at all times.

The nine regional representatives are elected by the members who live within their regional constituencies. WSSCC's regional constituencies are defined according to the human development index (HDI). Members who live in countries listed as very high or high HDI are allowed two votes for the two global seats. Members who live in countries listed as medium or low HDI are allowed one vote for their regional seat and two votes for the two global seats.

WSSCC's regional constituencies are:   

  • Global (2 seats)
  • Small Island Developing States
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • South-Eastern and Eastern Asia
  • Southern Asia
  • Eastern and Central Europe, Western and Central Asia
  • Eastern and Southern Africa*
  • Middle, Northern and Western Africa*

* the two current Steering Committee members from Africa were elected under a previous constituency demarcation of Anglophone Africa and Francophone Africa.

  

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