23. GUIDELINES FOR ACCEPTANCE OF FUNDS FROM NGOS
(from "Chairman's Report of the Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting")
In the Finance and Administration Committee last year, Japan proposed a new
agenda item for the 48th meeting to develop guidelines for the acceptance of
funds from NGOs.
It presented a discussion paper for this year's meeting which addressed the
issue of funds contributed from sources other than Contracting
Governments's regular contributions.
The Secretariat also provided information regarding the procedures used by
CITES to determine the acceptability of NGO donors.
Based on this information, the Committee recommended and the Commission agreed
to adopt, as an appendix to the Financial Regulations, the guidelines which
are also shown in Appendix 10.
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