NationStates Jolt Archive

DRAFT: 2004.05.11

This draft incorporates the latest changes Ichi Ni and my nation, the CCSM, have worked out. I've taken the liberty of suggesting a new title for this proposal, based on the recommendations of our new UN moderator. I've not checked with her if this title is appropriate, but hopefully it is more clear what we are proposing to do.

I do have one question for Ichi Ni. I like everything I see in your amendments to the proposal, with one possible exception. I'm not clear what Clause 1e is doing. If you could clarify that it would be appreciated.

Ichi Ni, you'll also notice that I made slight modifications to your previous amendments. I caught a spelling error (well MS Word did) and I shorted your new clause 2.

Once I finally had the time to read your revisions, with the exception above, I totally liked your amendments and feel they improve the resolution.


TITLE: Funding and Membership Guidelines for the UNEC

AWARE of the passage of its resolution, United Nations Educational Committee, adopted April 9, 2004,

1. DEFINES the roll of the UNEC (United Nations Education Committee) to include:
a ) Establishing Minimal Education standard on a Per Nation Basis.
b ) Evaluating Education System for every Nation requesting Financial Aid.
c ) Providing educational grants to UN member states that request financial help for their education programs,
d ) Monitoring the implementation of its grants and report its findings to this assembly when appropriate;
e ) Approving additional funds if necessary or sanction recommendations should evidence be found that UNEC grants were misappropriated or otherwise diverted from its original purpose.

2. ESTABLISHES a United Nations Educational Trust Fund (UNETF), which will be managed by the UNEC and funded through donations by international, national, and non-governmental sources, to be the primary source of funding for the UNEC, such that the functions and purpose of the UNETF shall include but not be limited to:
a ) purchasing instructional and educational supplies,
b ) funding training for educations and instructors,
c ) funding repairs and maintenance for facilities to ensure clean, safe educational facilities, and
d ) providing healthy and nutritious meals for students;

3. FURTHER DEFINES the voting membership of the UNEC to include:
a ) any UN member state which contributes to the UNETF, and
b ) a number UN member states, not to exceed 100 seats, as elected by the UN General Assembly to serve one year terms;

4. RECOMMENDS two advisory panels to the UNEC, composed of:
a ) up to two teachers from each UN member state, and
b ) up to two students from each UN member state;

5. INSTRUCTS the voting membership of the UNEC to take into consideration all of the recommendations provided by the UNEC advisory panel;

6. AUTHORIZES the UNEC to base the decisions concerning the awarding and continuation of the United Nations Education Trust Fund grants on both the recommendations of the UNEC advisory panel as well as on information collected on the current status of overall quality of the programs that apply for financial aid;

7. SUGGESTS that the evaluation of the current status of the overall quality of educational programs includes a budget analysis of the educational program, student retention, school curriculum and program of study, educational goals of the society in question, and feedback from the students / teachers / administration and representatives of the country applying for the grant;

8. AFFIRMS that the grants provided by the UNEC will only be used for educational purposes, such that if the UNEC has reason to believe the funds or supplies it provides are being used for non-educational programs, the UNEC may vote to suspend the funds upon an investigation, as provided by its monitoring program described above;

9. ACKNOWLEDGES the inherent right of societies to determine what is best for their children, by taking into consideration the cultural and social needs of the members states and schools that apply to the UNEC;

10. REAFFIRMS that the financial resources provided by the UNEC should be given out on a need basis, with the nations most in need of assistance will be given a priority in the UNEC decision making process; and

11. EXPRESSES ITS HOPE that in time that nations will be able to supplement the aid provided by the UNEC and that the programs and institutions that apply for UNEC aid may become self-sufficient.



10kMichael
Ambassador, Confederated City States of Mikitivity

:arrow: United Nations? ;)

Thanks,

To answer 1e's purpose...

1e gives the UNEC the ability and (for lack of a better word) power to enforce and protect the funds from being mis-used. Say Nation "little slimy git" gets this funding. 1e is to insure that he does not say, use the funding IN PLACE OF any funding he would normally allocate for education (bascially making the UN fund his education system COMPLETELY) or, say that the funding is to improve his schools while secretly funneling the funds to some other purpose like weapon development. I always felt that the funding was supposed to assist the nations in improving their education system... not fund it completely. I just wanted something in there to insure the money wasn't abused.

Also, sometimed "events" occure where the money just isn't enough (an earthquake completely destroys an educational facility.) the money to repair may not be enough. This gives the option for the nation to apply for additional funding and the UNEC to grant it if they see fit.

To everyone else, we, or at least I, are going through the entire proposal slowly. kinda building it as we go. We are on point 2 (tho if you have ideas for point 1 speak up)

Mikitivity. a thought, wanna include Faculty in the nutritious meals clause (2e?) Kinda a perk to being a teacher?

Thanks,

To answer 1e's purpose...

I just wanted something in there to insure the money wasn't abused.


I was thinking Clause 6 does just that and that 1e wasn't necessary in light of that.


Mikitivity. a thought, wanna include Faculty in the nutritious meals clause (2e?) Kinda a perk to being a teacher?

I'd welcome that idea. I was under the impression that Hersfold's original resolution was focus on both. Hersfold, would you like to speak to this matter? (BTW: I'll TG Hersfold, who has a harder time getting on the UN forum than we do.)

10kMichael

I kinda put that there (1e) because point 1 defines the powers of the UNEC. That's why I was going point by point. we can remove redundant items and stream line the proposal (kinda making it look "professional")

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We the people Of The Confederation of Polish Warriors are absolutley delighted with this plan and are willing to support it fully! Our nation is currenty in a state of "renaissance" in educational programs and thier funding. We do have questions however as to how these funds will be raised? Gambling, property tax, lotto, ciggarette tax, alchohol tax.etc..etc. ? We would also like to discuss possibly the idea of disciplin in the schools. We believe in corporal punishment but maybe this is off the subject just a thought though.

We would also be highly interested in what or how you plan to pay the teachers. It is our belief that higher salaries attract higher quality teachers. There must be an idea for teacher salary and benefits. We would be more than willing to draw something up if this at all interests you?

Polish Warriors:

The funding is raised through donations from Nations and corporate entitites. How those Nations raise the funds to donate is up to them. Discipline is also up to the schools as long as they do not violate National and Internationa laws.

As for Teacher payment… the funds will be used to train teachers, but I think the payment should be up to the nation. If they are paid by the fund, that would make them UN Employees and I don’t know if any Nation wants the UN teaching their children. However, post your ideas for salaries and benefits and we’ll see if others agree.

Comments?

Ok, what we got so far...

TITLE: Funding and Membership Guidelines for the UNEC

AWARE of the passage of its resolution, United Nations Educational Committee, adopted April 9, 2004,

1. DEFINES the roll of the UNEC (United Nations Education Committee) to include:
a ) Establishing Minimal Education standard on a Per Nation Basis.
b ) Evaluating Education System for every Nation requesting Financial Aid.
*c ) Prioratizing Applying Nations by Level of Need for distribution of Funds
d ) Providing educational grants to UN member states that request financial help for their education programs,
e ) Monitoring the implementation of its grants and report its findings to this assembly when appropriate;
f ) Approving additional funds if necessary or sanction recommendations should evidence be found that UNEC grants were misappropriated or otherwise diverted from its original purpose.

2. ESTABLISHES a United Nations Educational Trust Fund (UNETF), which will be managed by the UNEC and funded through donations by international, national, and non-governmental sources, to be the primary source of funding for the UNEC, such that the functions and purpose of the UNETF shall include but not be limited to:
a ) purchasing instructional and educational supplies,
b ) funding training for educations and instructors,
c ) funding repairs and maintenance for facilities to ensure clean, safe educational facilities, and
d ) providing healthy and nutritious meals for students, teachers and faculty.

3. FURTHER DEFINES the voting membership of the UNEC to include:
a ) any UN member state which contributes to the UNETF, and
*b ) any UN Member state not applying for financial aid to insure impartiality,
c ) a number UN member states, not to exceed 100 seats, as elected by the UN General Assembly to serve one year terms;

*point 4 will be removed due to the fact that teachers and students have better things to do, like teaching and learning.*
4. RECOMMENDS two advisory panels to the UNEC, composed of:
a ) up to two teachers from each UN member state, and
b ) up to two students from each UN member state;

*point 5 will be removed untill a new form of an advisory council can be created.*
5. INSTRUCTS the voting membership of the UNEC to take into consideration all of the recommendations provided by the UNEC advisory panel;

6. AUTHORIZES the UNEC to base the decisions concerning the awarding and continuation of the United Nations Education Trust Fund grants on both the recommendations of the UNEC advisory panel as well as on information collected on the current status of overall quality of the programs that apply for financial aid;

7. SUGGESTS that the evaluation of the current status of the overall quality of educational programs includes a budget analysis of the educational program, student retention, school curriculum and program of study, educational goals of the society in question, and feedback from the students / teachers / administration and representatives of the country applying for the grant;

8. AFFIRMS that the grants provided by the UNEC will only be used for educational purposes, such that if the UNEC has reason to believe the funds or supplies it provides are being used for non-educational programs, the UNEC may vote to suspend the funds upon an investigation, or recommend sanctions, as provided by its monitoring program described above;

9. ACKNOWLEDGES the inherent right of societies to determine what is best for their children, by taking into consideration the cultural and social needs of the members states and schools that apply to the UNEC;

10. REAFFIRMS that the financial resources provided by the UNEC should be given out on a need basis, with the nations most in need of assistance will be given a priority in the UNEC decision making process; and

11. EXPRESSES ITS HOPE that in time that nations will be able to supplement the aid provided by the UNEC and that the programs and institutions that apply for UNEC aid may become self-sufficient.


My suggestions are preceeded with an '*'. any comments on what I, Mikitivity and several others came up with?

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3. FURTHER DEFINES the voting membership of the UNEC to include:
a ) any UN member state which contributes to the UNETF, and
*b ) any UN Member state not applying for financial aid to insure impartiality,
c ) a number UN member states, not to exceed 100 seats, as elected by the UN General Assembly to serve one year terms;


Now that my nation is finished with its "Blackest Sunday" week long celebration, I'd like to continue to work on this proposal.

There are some typos in Articles 1 and 2, that I'll address later. Very minor. Actually they aren't typos, as much as structural differences due to multiple authors working on the same document ... the type of thing that a spell check in MS Word will fail to notice.

For Article 3 I notice that you've changed clause b), but I don't like this change. The truth is nations are partial. All of them, always. The point of allowing general members elected by this assembly (clause c)) is such that as a body, hopefully we can weed out nations that are biased, but still allow for nations that don't have the resources, but a vested interest and committement to education to participate. I'll make a point to look at the original copy, but clause 3b should IMHO be stricken.

10kMichael
p.s. my nation will be reposting the NEO proposal as well, and unlike many of the other poor proposals being discussed, it has a clear international standing ... I would be thrilled to see nations taking an interest in international issues instead of domestic ones.