*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 infosem2...@gmail.com 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)
