GA24/06/10
Paris | 2December 2010
WFO Executive Board Members
17th Constitutional Mandate 2010-2013
/ Dr. Deisi Noeli Weber Kusztra- BrazilPresident
/ Mr. Isidro de Brito - Portugal
Vice-President for Legal and Administrative Affairs
/ Hon. Mme. Saida Agrebi- Tunisia
Vice-President for Communications and Public Relations Affairs
/ Mr. Bruno Lopes- Canada
Vice-President for Financial Affairs
/ Mrs. Alzira Guimarães- Brazil
Vice-President for Technical Activities
/ Mrs. Lara Hussein- Jordan
Vice-President for Family Policy Coordination
ADVISORS
/ Mrs. Maria José Evangelista
Brazil / / Mrs. Rachel Aird
South Africa
/ Mr. Rupinder Bedi
India / / Dr. Elie Mekhael
Lebanon
/ Mrs. Teresa Maia
Portugal / / Mr. Heribert Rollik
Germany
/ Dr. Soad Jaber
Saudi Arabia / / Mr. Eric De Wasch
Belgium
/ Mr. Nedim Kaya
Turkey / / Mrs. Elisabetta Maggi
Italy
/ Mr. Marcel Van Breen- Belgium
Honorary President
Staff
Mr. Paulo Machado – Chief Communications Officer
Ms. Márcia Formiga – Accountant
Dr. Juliana Procópio – Legal Affairs
Mrs. Andrea Ramos – International Relations
CONTENTS
MESSAGE OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD
DECISIONS OF THE 23rd QUADRENNIAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY SESSION 2009
DECISIONS OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD SESSIONS 2010
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STRATEGIES OF THE STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK 2010-2013
WORLD FAMILY SUMMIT
INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES
WORLD FAMILY AWARDS
Message of the Executive Board
17th Constitutional Mandate 2010-2013
Dear Members,
We, Members of the Executive Board of the 17th Constitutional Mandate 2010-2013, have the honor to present to you the first Annual Report of our mandate.
The work in this year of 2010 was extremely productive and one of the main characteristic was the huge integration among the elected Members, the harmony achieved in developing our work strategies, the deepness of our discussions and reflections and the maturity of our decisions.
The contents of our Strategic Framework 2010-2013 have been carefully and collectively studied and definitive ways of approaching towards the implementation of each one of its strategy have been adopted.
During the year, we participate in full Members Sessions and also each Vice-President held innumerous meetings with their respective advisors to mature our discussions and decisions as well as an innovative approach of an Electronic Session of the Executive Board was successfully developed.
Administratively speaking, four areas have been delimitated to deal with our specific needs.
- Administrative Area - where the President together with the Vice-President for Legal and Administrative Affairs and the Vice-President for Financial Affairs discussed and deliberated all Administrative and Financial Issues in order to accomplish the Strategy V – Implementation of Cross-Organizational Management.
- Substantive Area – where the President together with the Vice-President for Family Policy Coordination and the Vice-President for Technical Activities discussed and deliberated about WFO’s Family Policies, Programs and Projects in order to accomplish the Strategy IV – Implementation of Programs to respond to Members’ needs.
- Communications Area – where the President together with the Vice-President for Communications and Public Relations Affairs discussed and deliberated about the best way to successfully accomplish the Strategy I - Strengthening Family Perspectives on the International, Regional, National and Local Agendas by establishing new partnerships, alliances and networks and consolidating the existing ones and together with the Chief Communications Officer the establishment of WFO’s Office for Communications and Marketing in order to accomplish the Strategy VI - Communicating WFO Message.
- Organizational Capabilities Area – where the President and the Vice-President for Legal and Administrative Affairs discussed and deliberated about the reorganization of WFO’s Organizational Structures and the Capacity Building of the decision-making level in order to exercise its duty based in mutual understanding and partnership according to the Strategy II - Strengthening the Institutional Capability of the Governing Bodies and III -Implementation of the Regional and National Structures to develop their duties at the Regional and National levels.
The result of our work is reflected in this Report. We wish to all WFO Members a good reading, analyzing and your constructive comments in order to refine our work to respond your expectations.
The Executive Board
Decisions of the 23rd Quadrennial General Assembly Session
DECISION GA 23/01/09The General Assembly, after analyzing the Agenda of its 23rd Quadrennial Session, decided to unanimously approve it.
DECISION GA 23/02/09
The General Assembly, after reflecting and discussing, decided, unanimously, to approve, with the inclusion of the Vice-President for Family Policy Coordination in the list of presence, the Report of 22nd General Assembly Session, held in Cairo, Egypt on November 30, 2008.
DECISION GA 23/03/09
The General Assembly, after reflecting and discussing, decided, unanimously, to approve the Quadrennial Report of Activities.
DECISION GA 23/04/09
The General Assembly, after reflecting and discussing, decided unanimously to approve the Quadrennial Financial Report of Activities 2006-2009.
DECISION GA 23/05/09
The General Assembly, after reflecting and discussing, decided unanimously to approve Report of the External Auditors.
DECISION GA 23/06/09
The General Assembly, after reflecting and discussing, decided unanimously to approve the Strategic Framework 2010-2013 “Mobilizing for Action” of the 17th Constitutional Mandate.
DECISION GA 23/07/09
The General Assembly, after reflecting and discussing, decided unanimously to approve the Budget Proposal for the 17th Constitutional Mandate 2010-2013.
DECISION GA 23/08/09
The General Assembly Members, after reflecting and discussing, decided unanimously to approve the Regulations for General Elections 2010-2013.
DECISION GA 23/09/09
The General Assembly, after voting according to the Electoral Process in WFO’s Constitution elected the following Executive Board for the 17th Constitutional Mandate 2010-2013:
President
DR. DEIZI KUSZTRA - BRAZIL
Vice-President for Legal and Administrative Affairs
MR. ISIDRO DE BRITO - PORTUGAL
Vice-President for Financial Affairs
MR. BRUNO LOPES - CANADA
Vice-President for Communications and Public Relations Affairs
HON. MME. SAIDA AGREBI - TUNISIA
Vice-President for Family Policy Coordination
MRS. LARA HUSSEIN - JORDAN
Vice-President for Technical Activities
DR. ALZIRA GUIMARÃES - BRAZIL
Advisor – MR. HERIBERT ROLLIK - GERMANY
Advisor – MRS. ELISABETTA MAGGI - ITALY
Advisor – MR. ERIC DEWASCH - BELGIUM
Advisor – DR. ELIE MEKHAEL - LEBANON
Advisor – MRS. RACHEL AIRD – SOUTH AFRICA
Advisor – MRS. TERESA MAIA - PORTUGAL
Advisor – MR. RUPINDER BEDI - INDIA
Advisor – MR. NEDIM KAYA - TURKEY
Advisor – MRS. MARIA JOSÉ EVANGELISTA - BRAZIL
Advisor – DR. SOAD JABER – SAUDI ARABIA
DECISION GA 23/10/09
The General Assembly Members, in recognition of the work accomplished during half of a century by the Acting Vice-President for Legal and Administrative Affairs, Mr. Marcel Van Breen, decided to concede him the title of Honorary President of the World Family Organization.
Decisions of the Executive Board Sessions 2010
181st Session of the Executive Board
Paris, France | 25-27 March 2010
DECISION 181/01/10The Executive Board Members of the 17th Constitutional Mandate, having received the Report of the 180th Ordinary Session belonging to the last Executive Board Session of the 16th Constitutional Mandate, for information purposes, decided to ratify the approval done by the members of the Executive Board of the 16th Constitutional Mandate.
DECISION 181/02/10
The Executive Board Members, having listened, reflected and interacted about WFO’s History presented by the President as the welcome for the Members of the 17th Constitutional Mandate of the Executive Board, decided to learn more and reaffirm their commitment to contribute to strength the Organization, to spread its message and to the achieve of its objectives.
DECISION 181/03/10
The Executive Board Members, after taking acknowledge of the Report of the Vice-President for Legal and Administrative Affairs about the 1st Administrative Meeting and with satisfaction decided to unanimously approve it.
DECISION 181/04/10
The Executive Board members, after discussing and reflecting on the Report of the Vice-President for Legal and Administrative Affairs about the Field Visits to present the Health Projects Developed by WFO/UNAPMIF/DP, decided to unanimously approve it.
DECISION 181/05/10
The Executive Board Members, after discussing and reflecting on the Report of the President about the visit to the United Nations NGO Branch and DESA Office for ECOSOC Support and Coordination, decided to unanimously approve it.
DECISION 181/06/10
The Executive Board Members, after discussing and reflecting on the Operational Structure of the Executive Board on its 17th Constitutional Mandate, decided to unanimously approve it.
DECISION 181/07/10
The Executive Board Members, after discussing and reflecting on the Executive Board Rules of Procedures, decided to unanimously approve it with the following amendments:
- Rule 4 – instead of “7 days before” became “15 days before”.
- Rule 13 – the last item “The Vice-President for Legal and Administrative Affairs shall replace the President in its impediment” should become Rule 14.
- Rule 25 (previous 24) – add “decisions numbered” at the end.
- Rule 51 (previous 50) – on the title “Equally divided votes”, add “in the Secret Ballot”
DECISION 181/08/10
The Executive Board Members, after discussing and reflecting on the Executive Board Rules of Procedures, decided to unanimously approve it with the following amendments:
- Exclusion of the word “Secretariat” on the title.
- Rule 2 – instead of “place” became “city” (twice).
- Rule 5 – add the word “economic” in “the most direct economic route”
- In the title II “Office Expenses”, add “…of the Vice-Presidents”
- Rule 17 – add to the end of the phrase: “… and any other legitimate expenses”.
- Rule 22 – add to the end of the phrase: “… as provided at the Rule 56 of the Executive Board Rules of Procedures”
DECISION 181/09/10
The Executive Board Members, after reflecting and discussing, decided to unanimously authorize further work on setting WFO’s New Office of Communications and Marketing under the name “CONNECT”.
DECISION 181/10/10
The Executive Board Members, after reflecting and discussing, decided to unanimously agree with the ideas presented and recommend the development of CONNECT’s Business Plan, to be presented in the next Session of the Executive Board.
DECISION 181/11/10
The Members of the Executive Board after reflecting on the on the Proposal for Nomination of WFO’s Representatives to the United Nations New York, Geneva, Vienna and the UN Economic Commissions, decided unanimously to approve it as follows:
NEW YORK
Main representative: Dr. Deisi Kusztra
Additional Representatives:Isidro de Brito
Bruno Ricardo Lopes
Saida Agrebi
Lara Hussein
Alzira Guimarães
GENEVA
Main representative: Dr. Deisi Kusztra
Additional Representatives:Isidro de Brito
Teresa Maia
Elisabetta Maggi
Heribert Rollik
Eric De Wasch
VIENNA
Main representative: Dr. Deisi Kusztra
Additional Representatives:Isidro de Brito
Marcel Van Breen
Nedim Kaya
Dr. Soad Jaber
Maria José Evangelista
UN Economic Commission for Africa (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
Representative: Rachel Aird
UN Economic Commission for Europe (Geneva, Switzerland)
Representative: Isidro de Brito
UN Economic Commission for Latin America and Caribbean (Santiago, Chile)
Representative: Dr. Deisi Kusztra
UN Economic Commission for Western Asia (Beirut, Lebanon)
Representative: Dr. Elie Mekhael
UN Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Bangkok, Thailand)
Representative: Rupinder Bedi
DECISION 181/12/10
The Executive Board Members, after an understanding the composition and elections at the Development Partners Executive Board, decided to replace Mr. Edouard Desmed, by Mr. Bruno Lopes and Mme. Desirée Bellaiche, by Mr. Nedim Kaya.
DECISION 181/13/10
The Executive Board Members, after reflecting and discussing on the proposals to exclude UNAF as WFO member and take legal steps as it deems to be appropriate decided to vote the issue in two parts as follows:
Part I
- Members present and voting: 13
- Members present and voting for the exclusion of UNAF as WFO Member: 11
- Members present and voting against the exclusion of UNAF as WFO Member: 2
- Members present and voting: 12
- Members present and voting to take legal steps as it deems to be appropriate: 12
- Members present and voting not to take legal steps as it deems to be appropriate: 0
DECISION 181/14/10
The Executive Board Members, after reflecting and discussing on the proposals to exclude CNAFC as WFO member and take legal steps as it deems to be appropriate decided to vote the issue in two parts as follows:
Part I
- Members present and voting: 13
- Members present and voting for the exclusion of CNAFC as WFO Member: 11
- Members present and voting against the exclusion of CNAFC as WFO Member: 2
- Members present and voting: 12
- Members present and voting to take legal steps as it deems to be appropriate: 12
- Members present and voting not to take legal steps as it deems to be appropriate: 0
DECISION 181/15/10
The Members of the Executive Board, after analyzing the report and the recommendation of the Vice-President for Legal and Administrative Affairs and his Advisors, decided to approve the affiliation in their respective categories of the following organizations providing that membership fees will be paid:
- FONGAF - General Forum of Arab African NGOs - Libya
- FOE - Fondation Ostad Elahi - France
- Associação Portuguesa de Saúde,Higiene e Segurança no Trabalho para o Desenvolvimento e Cooperação Internacional - Portugal
- Turkish Religious Foundation - Turkey
- Family Are Nations (F.A.N) - Zambia
- Coordination Européenne pour le Droit des Etrangers à vivre en Famille - Belgium
- CERCICA - Cooperativa Educação Reabilitação Cidadãos Inadaptados Cascais – Portugal
- Coração Delta, Associação de Solidariedade Social - Portugal
- Dr Mohammed Yeasin Khan - Family of the World - Bangladesh
- APMIF Leópolis - Brazil
- APMIF Cianorte - Brazil
- Pari e Dispari SRL – Italy
182nd Session of the Executive Board
New York, USA| 30th June 2010
DECISION 182/01/10The Executive Board Members, after discussing and reflecting about Report of the 181st Ordinary Executive Board Session, held in Paris, from 25-27 March 2010, decided to unanimously approve it.
DECISION 182/02/10
The Executive Board Members, after taking acknowledgement of the Report of the Vice-President for Legal and Administrative Affairs about the 2nd Administrative Meeting and with satisfaction decided to unanimously approve it.
DECISION 182/03/10
The Executive Board Members, after analyzing and discussing the Presentation of the Vice-President for Legal and Administrative Affairs decided to unanimously approve it.
DECISION 182/04/10
The Executive Board Members, after analyzing and discussing the Report of the Vice-President for Financial Affairs decided to approve the following:
- Approve the Report presented by the Vice-President for Financial Affairs for the 2nd Trimester of 2010.
- Mr. Eric De Wasch will talk to Mr. Edouard Desmed about the pendency in the accountability of Mr. Marcel Van Breen.
- Mr. Eric De Wasch will talk to Mr. Edouard Desmed about the situation of the Vice-President for Communications and Public Relations Affairs and report back his position and also ask him for a written statement on the situation.
DECISION 182/05/10
The Executive Board Members, after analyzing and discussing the Presentation of the Vice-President for Family Policy Coordination for the 2nd Trimester of 2010 decided to unanimously approve it.
DECISION 182/06/10
The Executive Board Members, after analyzing and discussing the Report of the Vice-President for Technical Activities for the 2nd Trimester of 2010 decided to unanimously approve it.
DECISION 182/07/10
The Executive Board Members, after analyzing and discussing the Report of the Vice-President for Communications and Public Relations Affairs for the 2nd Trimester of 2010 decided to unanimously approve it.
DECISION 182/08/10
The Executive Board Members, after analyzing and discussing presentation of CONNECT by Mr. Paulo Machado, decided to unanimously approve the first of three phases of CONNECT’s Business Plan – Preliminary Presentation, Testing and Final Presentation – which will lead to the recommendation of the Executive Board to the General Assembly to launch and implement the actions of the Office of Communications and Marketing for a period of 1 year.
DECISION 182/09/10
The Executive Board Members, after discussing and reflecting decided to unanimously approve the “Regulation and Call for Elections at the Regional Level according to Decision of the 23rd General Assembly Session”.
DECISION 182/10/10
The Executive Board Members, after discussing and reflecting decided to unanimously approve the National Committees Rules of Procedures.
DECISION 182/11/10
The Executive Board Members, after analyzing and discussing the Plan of Action of the Vice-President for Family Policy Coordination decided to unanimously approve it.
DECISION 182/12/10
The Executive Board Members, after analyzing and discussing the Plan of Action of the World Family University proposed by the Vice-President for Technical Activities decided to unanimously approve it.
DECISION 182/13/10
The Executive Board Members, after listening to the explanations of the Vice-President for Legal and Administrative Affairs regarding the 2nd Draft of WFO’s Development Fund decided to unanimously approve his request to postpone further studies to the year 2011.
DECISION 182/14/10
The Executive Board Members, after discussing and reflecting, decided to unanimously approve the Report on the Preparation of the World Family Summit +6 presented by the President.
DECISION 182/15/10
The Executive Board Members, after discussing and reflecting about the main themes for the Program of the World Family Summit +6, decided that the following Members would be responsible to take care of each title regarding the formulation of the main theme for the session as well as the subtitles and suggested speakers as follows:
LOGISTICS AND PREPARATION
Dr. Deisi Kusztra – President / Mr. Isidro de Brito – Vice-President for Legal and Administrative Affairs / Mr. Bruno Lopes – Vice-President for Financial Affairs
PLENARY SESSION I
Mrs. Lara Hussein – Vice-President for Family Policy Coordination
PLENARY SESSION II
Mrs. Teresa Maia – Advisor
PLENARY SESSION III
Mrs. Rachel Aird / Mr. Nedim Kaya – Advisors
PLENARY SESSION IV
Dr. Alzira Guimarães – Vice-President for Technical Activities / Mr. Rupinder Bedi - Advisor
PLENARY SESSION V
Hon. Mme. Saida Agrebi – Vice-President for Communications and Public Relations Affairs
PLENARY SESSION VI
Mrs. Elisabetta Maggi – Advisor
DECISION 182/16/10
The Executive Board Members, after discussing and reflecting, decided to unanimously approve the Nomination of WFO Representatives as follows:
UNESCO
Main representative: Dr. Deisi Kusztra
Additional Representative:Isidro de Brito
FAO
Main representative: Dr. Deisi Kusztra
Additional Representatives:Elisabetta Maggi
ILO
Main representative: Dr. Deisi Kusztra
Additional Representatives:Heribert Rollik
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
Main representative: Dr. Deisi Kusztra
Additional Representatives:Teresa Maia
DECISION 182/17/10
The Members of the Executive Board, after analyzing the report and the recommendation of the Vice-President for Legal and Administrative Affairs and his Advisors, decided to approve the affiliation in their respective categories of the following organizations providing that Membership fees will be paid:
- National Inf. Resource Centre of Kazakhstan NGOs – NGO - KAZAKHSTAN
- Benin Rural Assistance: B.R.A. – NGO – BENIN
- Graphimedia SRL – BUSINESS COMMUNITY – ITALY
- CRIANÇAS DA VILA – ASSOC. DE PROTECÇÃO DOS MENORES E DA FAMÍLIA – NGO – PORTUGAL
- APLD – ASSOCIAÇÃO PARA UM PORTUGAL LIVRE DE DROGAS – NGO – PORTUGAL
- FUNDAÇÃO “O SÉCULO” – NGO – PORTUGAL
- TOM DA TERRA – ECO – ESCOLA – NGO - PORTUGAL
183rd Electronic Session of the Executive Board