MECC/ Inter-Church Network for Development & Relief (ICNDR) to Restructure to Meet Real Needs in Lebanon.
MECC General Secretary, ICNDR Director and Committee members met with the longstanding partners of ICNDR on February 8, 2007 in Uppsala, Sweden to discuss best ways and means of restructuring the program to meet the needs of all stakeholders, i.e. the churches in Lebanon, the MECC and the ecumenical partners who have faithfully supported the program since its initiation in the early years of the war in Lebanon (1975) as "MECC Emergency Relief, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Program in Lebanon" and later as the present structure that responds to needs in the aftermath of the war.
The meeting aimed at strengthening both the MECC and the ICNDR for a better performance at the levels of management, finance, governance and outreach.
The one day discussions led to a common agreement between all concerned and present at the meeting, confirming the autonomous status of the ICNDR within the structure of the MECC, the role of the MECC General Secretary as Liaison between the ICNDR Central Committee and the MECC Executive Committee, and the Central Committee's role as sole decision making and supervising body and authority with the ICNDR Director, that monitors the implementation of the program. The meeting agreed, among others, on an independent financial management with separate accounts and audit reports and a separate roundtable with the partners. These changes will be effective after approval by the MECC Executive Committee meeting early March.
For more information, kindly contact ICNDR Director Ms. Suad Haj Nassif at: ICNDR@cyberia.net.lb
Middle East Council of Churches Office of International Ecumenical Relations P.O. Box 5376, Beirut, Lebanon
Guirgis Ibrahim Saleh, General Secretary
mecc@cyberia.net.lb or guirgissaleh@cyberia.net.lb
+961-1-353-938 http://www.mec-churches.org/