General Assembly
The General Assembly is the sovereign body of GFMD. It meets in-person every four years and online annually in-between in-person meetings.
To help new members and those unfamiliar with the processes and rules that govern GFMD's General Assembly we have put together some answers to some frequently asked questions.
Please note that the answers to these questions are abridged summaries. Full details are available in the GFMD Constitution.
Yes. Every four years the GFMD General Assembly takes place in person to elect a new Steering Committee.
The most recent in-person General Assembly took place in Tiranna, Albania in 2021. The next in-person meeting will take place in 2025.
The quadrennial in-person General Assembly normally takes place alongside a conference for the wider media development and journalism support community that involves - among others - donors, partners, and supporters, as well as GFMD member.
Yes. Under GFMD's constitution and the rules related to GFMD's registration in Brussels, the General Assembly meets online in the three years between in-person meetings.
The General Assembly is the sovereign body of the GFMD and brings together all members, as well as partners and supporters, provided that only general members have the right to vote at General Assembly meetings.The General Assembly:
The programme is prepared by the Steering Committee in consultation with members.
Yes. The General Assembly is constitutionally mandated. Attendance and voting rights are accorded only to GFMD general members. Its procedures are governed by the GFMD Constitution. GFMD Affiliate members are able to attend but do not has voting rights.
Meetings of the General Assembly (and a wider conference alongside it) have previously taken place in Amman (2005), Athens (2008), Makhanda/Grahamstown (2012), and Jakarta, (2016), Tirana (2021)*.
* Delayed by a year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
No. However, the conference that often occurs at the same as the General Assembly has been referred to in different ways, including:
- Global Forum for Media Development (also known as the Global Forum).
To avoid confusion the Secretariat proposes that the future meetings are referred to using the following naming conventions:
Global Forum for Media Development - General Assembly - Tirana, 2021
The Global Forum for Media Development's General Assembly will take place in Tirana in 2021.
The General Assembly of the Global Forum for Media Development of 2021 took place in Tirana, Albania.
The General Assembly:
- Receives and approves a financial and activity report from the Steering Committee (the report is prepared by the Secretariat)
- Decides on policy and overall strategy and priorities
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