# 2023 Annual Meeting **Date:** Wednesday 26 April **Time:** 13:00 - 14:30 CET **Location:** [Online via Zoom](https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtcO2vpj0qGdIqk93Qtgu4zlEDe3HfnXoj) ### Registration: {% hint style="info" %} Register to attend the GFMD General Assembly [**online here**](https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtcO2vpj0qGdIqk93Qtgu4zlEDe3HfnXoj)**.** {% endhint %} ### Who is eligible to attend? {% hint style="success" %} All representatives of [**GFMD members**](https://gfmd.info/members/) are welcome to attend. {% endhint %} {% hint style="success" %} Members of the GFMD Steering Committee are especially encouraged to attend. {% endhint %} {% hint style="success" %} Members of the [GFMD Secretariat](https://gfmd.info/who-is-who/secretariat/) will attend the meeting to report on the activities of the Secretariat over the last year. {% endhint %} ## **AGENDA** The meeting will be chaired by GFMD chair [Zoe Titus](https://strategy.gfmd.info/steering-committee/current#chairperson), Director, [Namibia Media Trust](https://www.nmt.africa/). ### Welcome (13:00-13:07) {% hint style="info" %} GFMD's Chair, Zoe Titus and Executive Director (Mira Milosevic) will open the meeting and welcome members and guests. {% endhint %} ### Adopting minutes of GFMD General Assembly in Brussels, April 2022 (13:07 - 13:12) {% hint style="info" %} Minutes of the GFMD General Assembly in Brussels in April 2022 is available [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DSd8w_3CLzaCKTWPAPpYaH6UswxD5Yf0/edit?usp=sharing\&ouid=110804505370115841259\&rtpof=true\&sd=true). {% endhint %} ### Adoption of GFMD's 2022 audited accounts (13:12 - 13:19) {% hint style="info" %} GFMD's financial report, financial audit, and audited accounts are available here: {% endhint %} {% file src="" %} {% file src="" %} {% file src="" %} ### Adoption of 2022 activity report (13:19 - 13:34) {% hint style="info" %} GFMD's activity report for 2022 is available here. {% endhint %} {% file src="" %} ### Update on GFMD Membership (13:34 - 13:49) {% hint style="info" %} The GFMD Secretariat will share an update on GFMD membership: categories, size, and scope per region. GFMD’s membership brief is available [here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PMzrmhHtMyrvpozZ9C5qRIpC-3MurUEe/view?usp=sharing). {% endhint %} ### Updating and adoption of the 2023 budget (13:49 - 13:57) {% hint style="info" %} GFMD's budget for 2023 is available here. {% endhint %} {% file src="" %} {% file src="" %} ### Acceptance of GFMD's auditor for 2023 (13:57 - 14:04) The GFMD Secretariat put forward CHRISTIAN MISSANTE SRL to audit GFMD accounts for the 2024 financial year. {% hint style="info" %} **CHRISTIAN MISSANTE SRL** Avenue du Martin Pecheur, 56 bte 26 - 1170 Watermael-Boitsfort, RPM Bruxelles TVA: BE0466163093 Auditor - Christian Missante {% endhint %} ### Updating GFMD’s Code of Practice & AOB (14:04 - 14:27) One item on the agenda is that the GFMD Secretariat is proposing that GFMD's current **Code of Practice** is updated to better articulate and govern the obligations of GFMD members in terms of maintaining the highest standards of integrity, governance, financial transparency and accountability, as well as how to deepen collaboration and within the sector. This section of the meeting will be a discussion on the code of practice in the framework of the localisation agenda and the ongoing process to renew the principles for effective media development. {% hint style="info" %} GFMD's current Code of Practice is available here. {% endhint %} {% embed url="" %} ### Conclusion (14:27 - 14:30) **-- ENDS --** ## ## **GFMD Steering Committee meeting 2023** {% hint style="info" %} Please note that the[ GFMD Steering Committee](https://strategy.gfmd.info/steering-committee/current) will be in-person meeting to discuss strategic matters (including the update of GFMD’s code of practice) on **Monday 1st May** alongside UNESCO's global[ World Press Freedom Day 2023](https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/world-press-freedom-day-30th-anniversary-recentering-freedom-expression-driver-all-other-human?hub=370) events in New York, USA. {% endhint %} {% hint style="info" %} **Date**: 1 May 2023 **Location**: New York **Time**: 3 p.m. New York / 8 p.m. London (GMT) / 9 p.m. Europe (CET) / 5 p.m. Buenos Aires / 1 p.m. Nairobi / 7 a.m. Tuesday (2 May) Sydney **Venue**: Committee to Protect Journalists - CPJ office (Knight Foundation Press Freedom Center, New York, NY 10108) ***How to get there**:* *509 West 38 st 5th floor (between 10th and 11th Avenue).* {% endhint %} --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. 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