8th INDEPTH Annual General and Scientific Meeting

 

ELECTIONS

 

 

Call for Nominations for Election to the INDEPTH Board of Trustees at the 2008

Annual General Meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

 

It is provided in the Regulations of the INDEPTH Network, (INDEPTH), that an elected member of the Board of Trustees (the Board) will serve a maximum of two terms of either three or four years and shall not be eligible for re-election.

 

Accordingly, a few positions on the Board will again fall vacant at the 2008 AGM in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

 

Nomination and election of members to the Board

 

The INDEPTH Regulations (or the constitution) provide the following two methods by which nomination and election to the Board may be conducted.

 

  1. By nomination of a Full Member site (represented by its Site Leader) by another Full Member site (represented by its Site Leader) and accompanied by the consent of the nominee in writing at least 21 days before the date of the AGM.

 

  1. By the AGM accepting the nomination of a Full Member site (represented by its Site Leader) by another Full Member site (represented by its Site Leader) accompanied by the written consent of the nominee up to a day before the elections at the AGM.

 

The Regulations do not make the two methods mutually exclusive and the preference of INDEPTH has been for the combination of the two methods.

 

The Regulations also provide for a postal ballot by all Full Member (represented by Site Leaders) before the AGM or by secret ballot at the AGM. Again the preference of INDEPTH has been for secret ballot at the AGM.

 

Accordingly, nominations are invited from site leaders of colleague Full INDEPTH Member Sites (i.e. colleague site leaders) accompanied by the written consent of the nominees for election to the Board at the 2008 AGM, to fill the positions that would fall vacant.

 

Nominations for election to the Board will remain open until Tuesday 24th September 2008.

 

The nominations (please attach a CV of the nominee) should be sent to Titus Tei (Administrative Manager) by email  titus.tei@indepth-network.org  on or before 1st September 2008 or delivered to him by hand at the AGM by 20.00 hours on 21st September, 2008.