The Annual Council Meeting (ACM), hosted by TUSEV, took place on 24th April in Istanbul. The annual gathering brought together representatives of 14 members and several guests to discuss network’s work in the past year and the current one by approving the Annual Report 2012, Audit Report 2012 and Annual Plan 2013, 2014. Elections of the Board took place in order to fill the emptied places by outgoing members and Tina Divjak (CNVOS, Slovenia), Ana Novakovic (CRNVO, Montenegro), Dubravka Velat (Civic Initiatives, Serbia) and Gjergji Vurmo (IDM, Albania) were elected to serve on the Board. In order to strengthen cooperation with relevant stakeholders such as public institutions, media, academia, donors etc., the Council established an Advisory Board to serve for strategic discussion foremost with the launch of the drafting of new mid-term strategy 2014-2016, to be launched in 2nd half of November. KCSF is to be the host of the 6th ACM to take place in Kosovo in 2014. BCSDN Board held its 2nd preparatory session before the ACM in order to lay out the proceedings of the ACM. All relevant documents from the ACM and Board are available to members on the Intranet.
