The 2020 Vision Campaign Association

has been provisionally commissioned by the Executive Conference of Mayors for Peace to manage the 2020 Vision Campaign. The Executive Conference maintains overall direction of the Campaign on behalf of Mayors for Peace through it membership and participation in the Association’s General Meeting. The Campaign Secretariat (based in Ypres, as supervised by the Board of Directors) is responsible for all tasks related directly to the campaign. The 2009 General Conference provide the membership of Mayors for Peace with the opportunity to express its satisfaction (or otherwise) with these lines of control and Every member of the Executive Conference of Mayors for Peace has a right to be a member of the Campaign association and participate in its membership meetings, known as General Meetings. General Meetings must held once each year (telephone or video conferencing acceptable).

It elects the Board of Directors, approves general plans, budgets and reports, and sets basic policy for the Association. The first General Meeting was held in November 2007 during the Executive Conference in order to incorporate the Association by adopting and signing its Statutes.

Elected by the General Meeting, it can include NGO representatives as well as city representatives. It must be at least one member smaller than the General Meeting. The November 2007 General Meeting approved a slate of Board members with Mayor of Ypres as Chairman of the Board. The Board meets at least twice annually and is responsible for monitoring and guiding implementation of the general plan and budget approved by the General Meeting. The Board had held meeting in May and November 2008. The International Campaign Director is an ex officio member of the Board, and serves as its Secretary.


Daily Board

The November 2008 General Meeting approved the establishment of a Daily Board capable of convening on short notice to deal with Campaign Secretariat business. The Daily Board consists of the Chairman of the Board, the Association Treasurer, the International Campaign Director and the Secretariat Director.

Overall Campaign Direction

The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Secretariat conducts 2020 Vision Campaign and recruitment activities in Japan as well as continues to serve the non-campaign policies and tasks of Mayors for Peace, as determined by the Executive Conference and the General Conference. These tasks include planning and implementing Executive Conferences and General Conferences, and managing all formal matters associated with Mayors for Peace membership registration.

The two secretariats work jointly to recruit and communicate with members. They support each other, offering and request-ing assistance as needed, but are not in a chain-of-command relationship. The International Secretariat in Ypres reports directly to the Chairman of the Board is meant to cary out taks assigned to it by the Board and the General Meeting. The Hiroshima Secretariat is directly answerable to the President of Mayors for Peace and is meant to carry out organizational tasks assigned to it by the General Conference and the Executive Conference.