CRN Governance Structure
CRN’s governance is designed to make leadership, decision-making, safeguarding, and financial management clear and accountable. This page lists CRN director offices and deputy roles that support continuity, delivery, and integrity.
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Major campaigns and official positions are approved through documented decision-making, safeguarding checks, and accountability reporting. Deputies support continuity and day-to-day delivery.
Consistency builds legitimacy
Recommended cadence: Monthly leadership meetings, quarterly governance reviews, and scheduled financial summaries. Publish key updates and outcomes on the Updates/Impact pages when safe and appropriate.
Do-no-harm principles
CRN applies safeguarding standards, consent rules for images/stories, privacy protections for reporters, and conflict-of-interest controls. These rules protect community members and CRN credibility.
Director Offices
Replace placeholders with real names/photos and update bios. Each office includes a deputy role for continuity.
[Full Name]
Provides strategic leadership, chairs governance meetings, safeguards mission integrity, and represents CRN publicly. Ensures decisions follow lawful, ethical, and people-centred standards with transparent reporting.
- Deputy: Deputy President / Deputy Chair
[Full Name]
Supports continuity and follow-through across departments. Oversees deputy coordination, implementation of governance resolutions, and ensures consistent delivery of CRN priorities.
- Deputy: Assistant Vice President / Deputy Vice Chair
[Full Name]
Manages governance records, meeting minutes, correspondence, and organisational memory. Ensures decisions are documented, communicated, and tracked.
- Deputy: Deputy Secretary General
[Full Name]
Oversees budgeting, donation tracking, spending controls, and financial summaries. Supports audit-ready record-keeping and donor confidence.
- Deputy: Deputy Treasurer / Assistant Financial Secretary
[Full Name]
Leads policy priorities, advocacy strategy, stakeholder engagement, and reform proposals. Develops briefs and positions aligned with evidence and legality.
- Deputy: Deputy Director, Advocacy & Policy
[Full Name]
Coordinates community dialogues, local leadership relationships, and inclusion strategies. Ensures CRN remains grounded in people’s lived realities.
- Deputy: Deputy Director, Community Engagement
[Full Name]
Leads youth participation, protection, and gender justice advocacy. Designs safe inclusion programs and pathways for women, girls, and youth leadership.
- Deputy: Deputy Director, Youth & Gender Justice
[Full Name]
Manages communications strategy, media relations, digital campaigns, content governance, and responsible storytelling aligned with safeguarding and accuracy.
- Deputy: Deputy Director, Digital Strategy & Media
[Full Name]
Builds impact tracking, learning loops, and reporting metrics (dialogues hosted, participants reached, referrals made, outcomes documented).
- Deputy: Deputy Director, Monitoring & Evaluation
[Full Name]
Develops partnerships, coalition engagement, donor outreach, and resource mobilisation plans. Ensures transparency alignment with donor policy.
- Deputy: Deputy Director, Partnerships & Resource Mobilisation
[Full Name]
Designs civic education, advocacy training, organiser toolkits, and capacity building programs for members, volunteers, and partners.
- Deputy: Deputy Director, Training & Capacity Building
[Full Name]
Builds diaspora chapters, fundraising toolkits, skills banks, and coordinated advocacy actions to strengthen CRN’s global engagement and impact.
- Deputy: Deputy Director, Diaspora Engagement
Deputy Roles (Continuity & Delivery)
Deputies support execution, continuity, and quality control. They can chair working groups, manage routine reporting, and ensure departments remain active even when directors are unavailable.
- Support planning and delivery of department workplans
- Maintain records and weekly/monthly progress updates
- Coordinate volunteers and task groups
- Protect safeguarding and privacy standards
- Document decisions, actions, and outcomes
- Use conflict-of-interest and donor policy rules
- Ensure messaging remains accurate and ethical
- Escalate serious concerns via complaints route
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