Proposal #17: Decentralize from Chapters
I propose that any CISV Chapter may host camps in any part of the world, disregarding their location, as long as that doesn't interfeer with the actions of other chapters.
Rational
1) This freedom will decentralize CISV promotion to chapters
2) This will improve chapter cooperation with NGOs (priority 1 of strategic
planning)
Teo (ITA)
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Hey there
That's something we actually so in France, as three Chapters (Lyon, Grenoble and Chambery) are geographically very close... So any of these three chapters plan their activities anywhere in the region, same thing for JB.
We had also started a reflexion on what was cheaper ore more practical where (sites, cookers, food,...) in order to rationalize the organisation of these activities, instead of regionalize them.
Main challenge to it being of course the distance... hard to set correctly a village when the site is very north, the food very west and the staff very south...
My personal view of chapters is that they are more like nucleous of CISV-Development and less like "exclusive responsibles for specific areas".
In this sense, under my view, Teo's proposal is already in place if all the Risk Management and legal responsability things are adequate.
Since I've never discussed this with anyone, I might just be wrong. hehe
Cheers
right noam, that is the point.
inside the same country is obvius that there are no strict limits on geography, but if CISV Italy want to host a camp outside Italy is not that clear...
I think would be amazing...
I wonder if this will really bring the CISV philosophy into regions or countries that do not have CISV today.
If all volunteers are situated in a particular city, and they host the camp in another one - once they leave CISV has gone.
I think that the CISV idea is more than just a camp, so bringing CISV to a new country also includes finding, motivating and training volunteers exactly there.
Nevertheless, I find Teo's proposal interesting, because it would decentralize the promotion process: If this was accepted, any chapter could promote CISV into a new region or country - not only the ODC (international organisational development committee).
Then again, I don't think any promotional efforts have ever been restricted or limited by CISV international.
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I heard that something like that happened in 2006 in Spain.
Cisv US and CISV Spain co-hosted a village in spain and shared costs, staffs and hospitality points. (Please someone correct me if I have the wrong information)
During Impact Africa we discussed that option as a way to host seminars camps in Kenia for example.
That's also a good option for countries were the costs of hosting a cisv program are very high. For example Canada, were a village can cost up to 60 thousand dollars, can co-host a village in Peru, were a village can cost 1/3 of it. And share the hospitality points...
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