Enlarging the Circle Committees

Please note that our committee structure is flat :)> There are no hierarchies intended.

Committee structure:

1. Local committees

On the Port au Port Penninsula and in Bay St. George South the project is represented by the community leadership committees; the youth initiatives committee is the focus in the central subregion.

The local economic development officer (EDO) liases between the steering committee and the local committee.

The responsibilities and role of the local committee are outlined in the collaboration agreements.

2. Steering committee:

The steering committee includes the project community development professionals working in the region - the zone board economic development officers; the director of the Community Education Network; the executive director of the Long Range Regional Economic Development Board; the OST/Search Design facilitator, and the community forum facilitator.

The responsibilities and role of the steering committee are outlined in the collaboration agreements.

3. Evaluation committee:

The projected evaluation committee includes the director of the Community Education Network; the facilitator of the Zap Survey; the executive director of the Long Range Regional Economic Development Board; the OST/Search Design facilitator, and the community forum facilitator.

Reporting and facilitating the evaluation is the responsibility of the facilitators. However, as a participatory evaluation reflects the observations and opinions of all stakeholders, each subregional community committee also has responsibility for implementation.

The evaluation committee, communicating in the "virtual office", references the data collected to the established goals, objectives and success indicators of the project.

4. Advisory committee:

The advisory (design team) group is a component of the virtual office or online project management.

It includes the evaluation committee and is open to interested professionals working in rural development across the country.

The advisory (design team) group will be asked to make suggestions pertinent both to the implementation and analysis of the evaluation.

Meetings of the committee will be by iVisit software videoconferencing. Topics and times of the "meetings" will be posted on this site.