[NCSG-PC] New Policy Committee / Next steps

[Elsa S]

Rafik,

First of all, I’d like to take this chance to thank you for all the work
you’ve been doing in the past three years. It’s a lot of heavy lifting to
be chair of PC, Vice-chair of the council AND council liaison to the EPDP
at the same time. Your work is more than commendable and I don’t think NCSG
could thank you enough.

Secondly, I’d like to welcome our vibrant new PC members, Liz and Olga I
very much look forward to working with you. And of course James and Juan!
Welcome aboard team!

Having said that, I would definitely support a call for the PC but with
very sharp questions to ask and good preparation. Maybe each of us could
send in 3 questions that we’d like to be answered on our call, and write
pointers down as to what the best way forward could be. If I may also
suggest if, Rafik, you could maybe jot down the tasks you have been doing
as PC Chair outside of the description in our mandate? It could be helpful
to understand the workload and would also hone in our conversation much
more efficiently.

I could create a doodle poll for us to decide on the most appropriate time
for a call if this would be helpful! Let me know :)

Hope my two cents help! And until soon,

E.
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On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 11:35 PM Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The policy committee composition went through several changes with new
> representatives from constituencies and councillors (added in cc just in
> case). I think it is good opportunity now to discuss next steps and plan.
> It is also important to work as team and think about our role and duties as
> outlined in the charter and the expectations from NCSG members.
>
> A first action would be the election of a NCSG PC chair and agree on the
> process. It will be good to document the process for the future and one
> thing to add to the PC operating procedures project (on hold for a while
> and I will share the draft soon). The election will happen within PC
> members.  With regard to charter provision for reference:
> "*2.5.3. NCSG‑PC Leadership*
>
>    - A Chair will be elected or replaced from among the members of the
>    NCSG‑PC by a 2/3 vote of the NCSG‑PC membership on a yearly basis.
>
> -- The NCSG Chair may not serve in this role.
>
>    - One or more Vice-Chairs may be chosen by the NCSG‑PC on a yearly
>    basis."
>
>
> I have served as PC chair for at least for 3 years and I will be term
> limited as councillor and PC member by AGM of this year. So thinking about
> transition in a way or another is critical. One way experimented before is
> also to have vice-chairs as the charter permits at least in term of
> workload.
>
> Another would be to think strategically for PC work for this year and not
> just on whatever tasks or deadlines comes to us. GNSO council had its SPS
> meeting last week and there were a lot of discussions about priorities and
> that will come to us as SG soon where we need to define our policy
> priorities for this year and share our input to council.
>
> Please let me know about your suggestions/ideas. Currently the monthly
> policy call is not a PC call per se but we can think if we need our
> separate call to brainstorming and conduct our business.
>
> Best,
>
> Rafik
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Elsa Saade
Consultant
Gulf Centre for Human Rights
Twitter: @Elsa_Saade
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