[council] PDP Leadership Travel Support Pilot report - any objections

[Ayden Férdeline]

Echoing all of the earlier comments, I too support this ABR — it is a pity it does not cover a delegate’s travel for the entirety of an ICANN meeting and just covers three days, as the people being supported through this program have a need, I would think, to be present for the entire duration of an ICANN meeting.

Secondly, I think our current metrics are a little weak. They are fine for now, but we might want to think about beefing them up. Measuring the ROI of travel funding to a volunteer contributor is not a new concept; perhaps we could look at how the Ford Foundation or another organisation with a large travel budget does their evaluations and benchmark our more modest support against their criteria. I say this in part because I think we’d score really well.

Finally, do we know who is on the “ABR Evaluation Team”? It might be worthwhile to see if we can coordinate a meeting with them (if that is possible) so we can understand how helpful/useful they found our metrics, or whether they have any feedback on what they would like to see us reporting back.

Ayden

> On 5 Sep 2018, at 06:34, Heather Forrest <haforrestesq at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Council colleagues,
> 
> As noted on in our August GNSO Council meeting, we received in the FY18 budget process funding through the Additional Budget Request (ABR) mechanism to run a pilot of travel funding for a limited number of our PDP Chairs/leaders who otherwise would not have received funding to attend an ICANN public meeting.
> 
> We are required under the Additional Budget Request process to provide a report summarising how the funds were used, and how they contributed to our activities. 
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> Donna, Rafik and I put the attached report to your attention; if you have any objections or proposed amendments, please could you post these to the Council list by next Monday, 10 September?
> 
> Many thanks and best wishes,
> 
> Heather, on behalf of Council leadership team
> <FY19 PDP Leadership Travel Support Pilot - ICANN62 2018 09 05.docx>