Call on HIC Members with right to nominate candidates for the HIC Presidency election 2023-2028

Dear Members of Habitat International Coalition (HIC),

Warm regards from the Electoral Committee (EC) that is conducting the process for the election of the next HIC President for the 2023-2028 mandate. We have approved by majority the Guidelines for the President election process 2024-2028 and the Calendar President election 2023 that you will find attached.

We are launching today the process with the nomination of candidates starting today, Tuesday 26 September 2023 and lasting until Sunday 15 October 2023 (11:59pm GMT).

According to the requirements of our founding documents, only organization Members in good standing with their contributions will have the right to nominate, be nominated and vote for the election of HIC President.  Therefore, we now call on HIC Members with right to vote to actively participate in this electoral process in order to promote an opportunity to debate, exchange ideas and opinions on the mission and current and future tasks of HIC.

If your organization is not stated on the list of HIC Members with right to vote, we urge you to activate or renew your membership, please click here.

We remind you that Eligible Candidates to the HIC President position shall be representatives of a HIC organizational Member in good standing for at least three (3) years at the time of the nomination (Paragraph 21, HIC By Law, 2014) and that  Eligible Candidates shall be nominated by a minimum of five (5) HIC Members in good standing for at least one (1) year at the time of the nomination, and based in any region (Paragraph 21, idem).

Thank you for sending your nominations before Sunday 15 October 2023 (11:59pm GMT) to our email that has been specially created for the Presidential electoral process, with a cc to all of us. Self-nominations will not be accepted.
Your email should state:
– your name
– the organization you represent
– the name of the person you nominate as candidate
– the organization the person you are nominating belongs to

Example:

Best regards,

The Electoral Committee:
Hilary Zhou (Coordinator)
Ahmed Sourani, Edgar Ramírez, Efenema Ozugha, Meena Menon, Pascale Thys