Meeting: Executive Board, 6 April 2025

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The DCW Executive Board met on April 6, 2025 for the first time to discuss challenges around resources. 

===Participants===
* Aafi, Ariba, Faiz, Ikhlas, Samiya and Iflaq (honorary)

===Meeting details===

* Time / time zone: 8:30 PM to 9:50 PM IST
* Meeting channel: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83078762427 (Zoom)
==Agenda==
* Budget concerns and compliance with the feedback received from Program Officer
* Addition of an honorary member with subjective experience to the Board.
* Review of April-September activity plan

== Comments from board members ==
Subject to [[:en:Chatham House Rule|Chatham House Rule]], no identities of the commenters will be provided. The board members expressed the following thoughts:
#  Maintaining the health of DCW through resource access is essential for its long-term sustainability and growth. Non-compliance with feedback will lead to the loss of mandatory resources. 
# The Program Management role has to be retained; however, the associated compensation may be reduced by approximately 23%. This releases over 8.57% of the resources.
# We should be transitioning all communication functions to community volunteers, offering an honorarium of up to INR 200 per graphic. The paid roles should be discontinued. This is because a major component (25%) is going to communications, which adds to the challenges. 
# We should eliminate the Conversation Hour Lead role and integrate its duties into community volunteer positions, offering a monthly support of INR 6000. This would release upto 6% of resources. 
# We should also pause the [[DCW Graphic Internship|Graphic Internship Program]].
# [[Heritage Lens Fellowship]] should perhaps be discarded "individually", and expenses be moved to generic logistics and space. This might release additional 3.5% of the resources.
# Having someone with a subjective experience would strengthen the decision making processes. Aqueel Ahmad, a PhD scholar at IIT Kanpur is nominated.

==Vote and adoption==
The resolutions passed with the affirmative votes of Aafi, Ariba, Samiya, and Ikhlas. Faiz was absent during the vote. Meeting [[DCW Board#Quorum|the quorum]] requirements, this is a binding resolution and can only be amended through a board vote. The Board also welcomes Aqueel Ahmad, a PhD scholar (Economics) at IIT, Kanpur, as an honorary member for a one-year term.

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