ORD GOVERNANCE

Governance: ORD has five pillars of organizational governance. It includes the i) General Assembly (GA), ii) Board of Directors (BoD), iii) Advisory Board (AB), iv) Senior Management Team (SMT), and v) Field Management Team (FMT):

General Assembly (GA): This is the most top-level governance body, holding meetings every two years. This body appoints the BoD and can suspend, dissolve, and reactivate the organization in line with ORD bylaws and country NGO laws.

Board of Directors (BoD): This body appoints and terminates the Director General of the organization, elects new members to the board, and chairman of the board, and appoints temporary and/or permanent audit, investigation, technical, and partnership committees based on need. This body provides strategic directions to the organization, can terminate partnerships, and signs contracts above the level of director general. This body holds its scheduled meetings every six months and reports to GA.

Advisory Board (AB): AB is not a governance body; it rather provides a technical advisory role on strategic and technical issues, where committed professional experts provide expert-level inputs on matters of strategic importance. This body meets based on requirements.

Senior Management Team (SMT): SMT is the most critical governance body within the ORD hierarchy. SMT holds regular meetings on a weekly basis and has the responsibility to make major operational decisions for the program and project execution. Generally, the director of the organization chairs this body, and heads of sections such as finance, HR, procurement, program, security, and administration can be members of this body. This body, under the director, reports to BoD. The director should refer major policy and operational decisions to the review and decision of this body. SMT maintains major external relations directly or through the director general or relevant section heads.

Field Management Team (FMT): This body is the decision maker on the day-to-day activities at the field level and holds meetings once each week. ORD director and/or program director/manager can appoint members to this team for each region as appropriate and as required by the nature of operations at each province/region. ORD HQ should appoint the chairman of this body for each FMT. This body reports to the SMT at HQ on a weekly basis or as necessary. This body also handles a limited level of external relations at the field level.