Below you will find the draft version of the Guidelines for the IPPNW Student Fund. This document is only Khagendra and my proposal to you and is still open for changes, comments, additions, etc. Please go through the relatively brief document, view the online discussion which has already taken place and let us know your opinion. On October 15th, we will ask you to submit your vote on the final draft and you will then have one month time to cast the vote for your student chapter. After being approved this document would be integrated into the Student Guidelines.  We look forward to hearing from you,

Khagendra Dahal and Alex Rosen
IPPNW International Student Representatives
September 10th, 2005

Draft Guidelines for the IPPNW Student Fund

 

The IPPNW International Student Fund was established in order to aid the development and maintenance of a thriving and energetic International Student Movement. Its intention is to support innovative new projects, fund outstanding individual students if the organization as a whole can profit from this and enable sustainable planning within the student movement. The International Student Representatives will administer this fund together with the IPPNW Central Office and under the auspices of the Student Board of Trustees whom they have to report to at regular intervals. While this fund is designed to support student activity all over the world, a strong emphasis will be put on aiding activity and supporting students from the Global South.

 

Procedure:

All requests for funding must be submitted to the International Student Representatives in writing, containing details on the purpose, the proposed output, the timeframe, the benefit for the student movement and the amount required. Anyone receiving funds must submit a final report to the International Student Representatives along with receipts and documentation of expenses, as these are needed for the accounting within the Central Office.

 

Individual funding:

Students that are funded individually should hold some form of office (NSR, RSR, ISR) or be closely connected to one of the international student projects and bring forward convincing reasons how this funding would profit the IPPNW or the Student Movement as a whole. In exceptions, students not holding an office can also receive funding. Before money is offered from the international student fund, all local or regional funding opportunities should be exhausted (IPPNW chapters, local doctors, university, other NGO's, etc.)

 

MedEx funding:

Students participating in the MedEx project should try to raise their required funds themselves or should apply for funding from their university, their IPPNW affiliate or the affiliate offering the exchange. The International Student Fund can, in rare exceptions, be used to support very promising students with concrete goals in participating in the MedEx exchange, which will advance the student movement as a whole (such as setting up an new international student project).

 

Project funding:

Local or regional projects can be funded if they are relevant to the student movement as a whole and if all local or regional funding opportunities are exhausted (IPPNW chapters, local doctors, university, other NGO's, etc.) A convincing proposal should be sent to the ISRs well in advance.

 

Conference funding:

Conferences and Workshop have to show a specific IPPNW theme and prove their relevance to the IPPNW student movement as a whole. They should address the ISRs well in advance with detailed descriptions of the program and the goals of the conference.