23rd FIG General Assembly, Prague 2000
Minutes
Appendices



APPENDIX TO ITEM 18

FIG Work Plan 2000 - 2003

Responsibilities of the Bureau Members and Other FIG Officers

1. Planning and Developing of the Federation
  1. To present, to the 2000 General Assembly, the findings and recommendations of the task force on the Future Governance and Management of FIG and to implement the General Assembly’s approved changes;
    and prepare the new Statutes for the approval of the General Assembly in Seoul 2001;

Kennie

WW 2000

WW 2001
  1. To review and update the strategic plan for approval to the General Assembly in Washington 2002;

Magel

WW 2002
  1. To develop a long-term financial strategy for FIG and present the strategy to the General Assembly in Washington 2002;

FIG Office/ Challstrom

WW 2002
  1. To initiate and fund a reserve account;

FIG Office/ Challstrom

31.12.2000
  1. To develop and implement work planning and budgeting processes which incorporate and coordinate all FIG organizational units;

Kennie

WW 2002
  1. To continue the work of the task force on the Future Governance of FIG with ACCO to evaluate the need for any longer term changes to the Commission structure in more detail so that the decisions can be made at the General Assembly in Washington, 2002;

Kennie

WW 2002
  1. To make recommendations, to the 2002 General Assembly, on the process for selecting future congress sites;

Kennie

WW 2002
  1. To develop, for presentation to the 2002 General Assembly, protocols for the financing and the content of congresses and working weeks, including a policy for the distribution of congress and working week profits and losses;

Challstrom

WW 2002
  1. To develop, for approval by the 2001 General Assembly, a list of authorities, responsibilities and duties for the Bureau, FIG office, and the Commissions;

FIG Office/
Andreasen

WW 2001
2. Membership
  1. To increase membership within under-represented regions: especially, the Caribbean, and Central and South America;

Vice Presidents

2000-2002
  1. To increase secondary membership in countries that are already members of FIG;

Vice Presidents

2000-2002
  1. To increase FIG regional activities and to seek support and the participation of member associations and commission delegates to these activities;

Foster

2000-2002
  1. To increase academic membership and promote the Surveying Education Database;

FIG Office

31.12.2000s
  1. To increase sponsor membership and develop the benefits of being a sponsor member;

John Hohol

2000-2002
  1. To arrange for Bureau members and other FIG representatives to visit member associations

FIG Office/ Foster

2000-2002
  1. To encourage visits to the FIG office by member association representatives and to use the FIG office for Commission and other events;

FIG Office

2000-2002
  1. To develop strategies to encourage the surveyor to be customer oriented and to provide a quality service;

Commission 1

  
3. Commissions
  1. To improve communication between the Bureau, ACCO and the Commissions;

Foster

2000-2002
  1. To develop FIG and its commissions’ co-operation with international and regional surveying related organizations identified by the commissions;

Magel/
Commissions

31.12.2000
4. External Relations
  1. To develop and deepen co-operation with partner and sister organizations and to sign memoranda of understanding or agreements whenever needed;

Foster

2000-2002
  1. To enter into cooperative agreements with sister organizations to work together on areas of common concern;

Andreasen

31.12.2000
  1. To identify and make contact with UN related agencies having common areas of interest with FIG and with whom FIG does not currently have a formal relationship;

Williamson

WW 2001
  1. To enter into a co-operative agreement with the Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the Permanent Committee for GIS Infrastructure for Asia and the Pacific (PCGIAP) and other regional organizations and to act as a catalyst for the establishment of a formalized regional body in the Americas dealing with Spatial Data Infrastructures;

FIG Office/
Williamson

31.12.2000
  1. To promote the activities of the UNCHS(Habitat) global campaigns especially the Global Campaign for Secure Tenure;

FIG Office/
Williamson

2000-2001
  1. To prepare a report on progress made during the five years since the Habitat II Conference for the June 2001 special meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York (Istanbul+5);

FIG Office/
Williamson

WW 2001
  1. To evaluate the possibilities to participate in the process of Rio + 10 to be held in 2002;

Williamson

WW 2001
  1. To develop the coordination mechanisms for synchronizing the planning and budgeting of FIG/UN cooperative programs;

Williamson/
Challstrom

WW 2001
  1. To prepare for distribution, by the World Bank, compilations of the costs and benefits of various cadastre/land registration projects and checklists on how to successfully conduct land administration projects;

Foster/
Williamson

WW 2002
  1. To develop the mechanisms required to effectively liaise with FAO regional organizations;

FIG Office

WW 2002
  1. To co-operate with the World Trade Organisation in the promotion of global markets for surveying services;

Enemark

2000-2002
  1. To develop further co-operation with certification and standardisation bodies to ensure that workable standards which take full account of the needs of FIG's members result

Greenway

2000-2002
  1. To develop strategies that facilitate the transfer of donated equipment to educational establishments in developing countries;

FIG Office

WW 2002
5. Communications
  1. To improve communication between the Bureau, the commissions, and the member associations and, through them, to their individual members;

Foster

2000-2002
  1. To establish effective methods of notifying member associations and their members of FIG services and products (e.g. seminars, workshops, publications);

FIG Office

31.12.2000
  1. To publish an annual review which will serve as FIG's main medium of external communication and principal marketing tool;

FIG Office

2000-2002
  1. To publish FIG quarterly bulletin both as printed and internet versions;

FIG Office

2000-2002
  1. To develop FIG home page as the main channel for daily information delivery;

FIG Office

2000-2002
  1. To develop recommendations on the publication of a FIG journal containing selected papers presented at FIG or FIG sponsored events;

Andreasen/
Clawson

WW 2002
  1. To produce literature describing why clients should use the services of surveyors.

Commission 1

WW 2002
  1. To conduct a major internet campaign publicizing FIG’s work;

FIG Office

WW 2002
  1. To build and maintain a database of international, regional, and national organizations whose activities are surveying related;

FIG Office

2000-2002
  1. To maintain an internet accessible system for holding FIG publications;

FIG Office

2000-2002

Prague, May 2000



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