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1. The Nominations Committee would like to extend a word of gratitude to the churches which responded to our plea for more nominations of women, youth and indigenous people to the central committee. We received a total of 214 nominations by the given deadline, 42% of whom were women, 14% youth, 39% lay and 4% indigenous persons, together with nominations from the community of persons with disabilities. We thank you.
2. We have struggled with the regional and confessional percentages as allocated for the assembly, which are to be reflected in the new central committee. When we placed them alongside the other mandated balances, it became clear that it would not be possible to follow exactly every percentage given to us. In this regard, we expect to make some recommendations to the new central committee so that the guidelines may be re-evaluated and revised before the 10th Assembly. Nevertheless, the Committee met in a spirit of togetherness in order to prepare the proposed slate of central committee nominees which you now receive.
3. Because of the pressure of time available to put together the central committee list, and also because of the Sunday break and the need for additional consultations, we will not bring the list of Presidium nominations until Tuesday 21st. We trust that this will be acceptable.
4. The slate which you have received shows the following composition:
|
Category |
Number |
% |
|
Demographics |
||
|
Women |
61 |
41% |
|
Youth |
22 |
15% |
|
Lay |
54 |
35% |
|
Indigenous |
6 |
4% |
|
Disabled |
1 |
1% |
|
Region |
||
|
Africa |
29 |
19% |
|
Asia |
27 |
18% |
|
Caribbean |
3 |
2% |
|
Europe |
48 |
32% |
|
Latin America |
6 |
4% |
|
Middle East |
10 |
7% |
|
North America |
22 |
15% |
|
Pacific |
5 |
3% |
|
150 |
100% |
|
Category |
Number |
% |
|
African Instituted Anglican Baptist Disciples Free Independent Lutheran Mar Thoma Methodist Post-denominational Old Catholic Orthodox Eastern Orthodox Oriental Pentecostal Reformed United and Uniting |
2 15 4 1 3 1 19 1 20 2 1 28 10 1 27 15 150 |
1% 10% 3% 1% 2% 1% 13% 1% 13% 1% 1% 19% 7% 1% 18% 10% 100% |
5. We would also like to call your attention to the fact that, while the churches not meeting the criterion of size are normally allocated five seats in the central committee, we have nominated representatives of only three such churches. This is because we received only three nominations from churches in this category.
6. According to the "Guidelines for the conduct of meetings of the WCC", proposals for changing individual nominations may be made as follows:
Process for proposing changes to specific nominations
- Delegates may bring proposals for changes to specific nominations to the nominations committee outside of the plenary meeting. Any change needs to offer a replacement with the same demographic profile (region, gender, age, etc.) - unless the replacement will improve the balances sought - and must be signed by six delegates from the same region.
- Proposals for changes should be brought to Office #702 (7th floor) of Building 40 no later than 9:30 am on Tuesday 21 February.
