Call for CSO Nominations: Two New Civil Society Oversight Board Members

Nomination Two New Civil Society Oversight Board Members
For the period: May 2023- April 2025
The governance of NAP 1325-IV is in the hands of the Oversight Board (OB). The OB mirrors the broad support that NAP 1325-IV enjoys. It includes representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and WO=MEN (the NAP 1325-IV coordinators), the Ministries of Defence, Justice & Security, and Education, Culture & Science, and two civil society organisations (CSOs) that rotate every two years.
The OB has three functions with respect to NAP 1325-IV:
(1) Improve NAP 1325-IV’s governance, annual reporting and learning agenda,
(2) Ensure governmental support and timely political involvement, and
(3) Strive for greater public support for the WPS agenda and for knowledge-sharing.
Until May 2023 Suying Lai from Oxfam Novib and Mekka Abdeljabar from PV&DV/VOND act as the elected CSO OB members. For the period May 2023 till April 2025 we would like to invite new civil society signatories of the Dutch NAP 1325 to nominate themselves or a colleague to join the Oversight Board. Nominees should fit the following criteria:
5. CSO’s should preferably have expertise in 1) policy development and/or influencing, and 2) gender and monitoring, evaluation and learning (including in methodologies such as storytelling and outcome harvesting)
6. A commitment to participate in all formal meetings (at least at program management level, with delegated decision-making power) till April 2025, and a commitment to consult with the wider CSO community to gather input before meetings, when needed
7. Preferably good command of both English and Dutch
We especially encourage people and organisations who have not yet served on the OB to be nominated!
Please send your nomination accompanied with a short motivation letter to Anne-Floor Dekker or Karin de Jonge before the 1st of March 2023. A list of nominees will be published and an e-voting procedure will follow.