APCOM Board Elections

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*Asia** Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health (APCOM)*

*Elections for Board Member ( India Region )*

The Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health was specifically formed as a

coalition of community, government, donor sector representatives, along with UN

agencies to strongly advocate regionally and globally for increased investment

in line with the need, scale up of MSM HIV intervention programming and

increased coverage, research to address gaps in knowledge, and the promotion of

individual rights for MSM and transgender people across the Asia Pacific region.

APCOM has divided up the Asia Pacific region into 8 sub-regions/areas that are:

Australasia

China

Developed Asia

Greater Mekong sub-region

India

Pacific

South Asia (excluding India)

Insular South East Asia

Each sub-region has a community sector representative on the Board of APCOM, and

also an alternate

Currently Manvendra Singh Gohil and Vivek Anand are the nominated board and

alternate board members of APCOM. Vijay Nair is the nominated alternate board

member from APN+MSM working group.

At a community consultation held in Mumbai on 21st and 22nd March 2009 and a sub

sequent consultation held in Lucknow on 19th June 2009 it was decided that APCOM

should not conduct the elections in India itself, and that the elections should

be managed within the country.

INFOSEM, a national network of LGBT and MSM and HIV organisations could

facilitate the process of election of the board members for the year 2010 – 2011

The following were decided by the participants:

· India will follow the process of selection if there are only one or

two candidates; the candidate with the most votes will be nominated as the India

sub-region community sector representative on the APCOM Board, the follow-up

candidate as the alternate

· If there are more than two candidates then an election will be held

· INFOSEM will develop a vetting committee to include representatives

from the meeting group

· Networks will not have the right to vote, only organisations

working with MSM and HIV

· A web-based voting system will be developed if necessary

· INFOSEM E group will be used to disseminate information

· It was also agreed that if any organisation does not want to be a

part of INFOSEM, they can still participate in the APCOM representative election

procedure once they have been appropriately vetted.

We hereby make this posting for the MSM community organisations to nominate

members who will be the APCOM board member for 2010 -2011

All nominations should be sent to infosem2009@... along with a small

resume of the candidate and the organisation that he represents and the number

and date of registration of the organisation.

Dates of Elections will be announced shortly

Best

Manvendra Singh Gohil,Vivek Anand and Vijay Nair

Board and Alternate Board Members (APCOM)

Vivek R Anand

e-mail: <avivekr1@...>