Minutes of Meeting: RSCVD Steering Committee, 9 July 2025

Abstract

The RSCVD Steering Committee met and discussed the following: The revision of the Articles of Governance where it has been agreed to increase the number of volunteers to 6 and the number of the DDRS members to 6. For the volunteers, it was unanimously decided that after 3 times of no show to meetings with no justification, the membership is subject to review and or expiration. Expired volunteer members will be replaced by the candidate who received the highest number of votes among the unelected candidates. the regional coordinators, the officers, honorary members and the nomination process were also reviewed. The second item discussed the progress of the survey of the DDRS Open session in WLIC and was agreed to extend the deadline to 24 July. The third item discussed the RSCVD webinars that were organized on June 30th for the Syrian Colleagues in Arabic, and the future one for Central Asia to be delivered on the 18th of July. The meeting ended at 4:30 PM (Rome time).