The Alliance is managed in participatory way by the members through the Executive Committee mandated by the General Assembly
The role of the Alliance EC is to be responsible for the implementation of the Alliance plan of action and the daily running of the Alliance. According to the Standing Orders responsibilities of all the EC members are as follows:
On day-to-day basis these tasks are distributed between different EC members. All EC decisions, however, are taken collectively by all members of the EC – this means that apart from position-specific tasks all the EC members have a responsibility of general decision-making/management in the Alliance.
According to the Alliance Constitution the Executive Committee of the Alliance consists at the moment of six elected members. In 2022 they are:
Role | Name | Org/Country | EC member since |
President | Jannika Mumme | IBG/Germany | 2017 |
Vicepresident | Aylin Bekem | De Amicitia/Spain | 2021 |
Vicepresident for External Relations | Aleksandr Kurushev | Estyes/Estonia | 2021 |
Treasurer | Simon Geerart | CBB/Belgium | 2019 |
General Secretary | Fiona Callender | Concordia UK | 2020 |
Additional Member | Renārs Manuilovs | Youth For Smile/Latvia | 2021 |
The Executive Committee shall be in charge of the management and the operation of the Alliance in accordance with the decisions of the Alliance in the General Assembly and is accountable for its decisions to the GA. It meets five times a year.
Alliance Secretariat is hosted in Istanbul, Turkey, in Gönüllü Hizmetler Derneği (GHD) office.
Alliance Secretary is Nihat Yücel
Other staff roles contribute to the development of the network projects and activities:
The EC peers support the EC in areas such as internal affairs, external affairs, financial management, knowledge management, monitoring and evaluation, outreach. The EC peers have a consultative and not decisional role in the meetings of the Executive Committee. For more information on EC peers you can visit this LINK