Secretariat Group Meeting Agendas and Notes

Hi folks - Chris and I chatted this afternoon afer the meeting yesterday. Just a couple of things for further review or clarification if we can.

1. Steering Group and fees - the notes accurately reflect our discussion "Clarified that Secretariat members are expected to pay for registration. Steering Committee members encouraged to do so as possible – will be taken up on organizational basis as needed." But, I wonder if we can formalise that a bit more in order to avoid any hesitancy or mis-communication. For those of us with revenue in the budget for the Summit (attached - assume we will see 1st phase agreements soon) the fee is not such a big deal. For large organisations this will be OK. But maybe we can now identify and excuse from the Summit fees some of the smaller orgs that are putting so much time into the Summit. They will potentially being donating a lot of hours (maybe more) for planning the Summit with no reimbursement of time costs; and then a week of work at the Summit, again possibly with no revenue line for this in their own budgets; plus the potential of travel costs etc. It is lot if you have no specific revenue line for this work. On a related side-note - I am sure I just missed this - we did agree early on (check) an honorararium ($3,000?) for people from Southern orgs engaged in the Steering Committee? If someone can identify that line in the full budget that would be excellent - perhaps it was right in front of me?

2. The Indonesia group - thanks again for the clear notes from the meeting yesterday. I am still a bit confused by the focus and composition of the Indonesia 'local" group. There was mention in our call of a focus on the entertainment, receptions etc, by that local group but I suspect that they will require a broader remit. Just to clarify whether the intention was to restrict engagement to JHU, UNICEF and the government. That was the impression we gained when the offer of looking for someone in The CI network in Indonesia was, I guess, rejected! But if there si agreemnt that the local group role will not stay within the more limited role presently envisgaed then perhaps we should engage a few more Indonesian actors for a fuller range of perspectives across our field of work.

Hope those make sense. Thanks - Warren