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Organizational Structure
The ACA Executive
Committee (EC) as the decision making committee, creates strategy, defines
operations of ACA, and meets twice per year. The EC is elected for 2 year terms by
the General Assembly. The EC consists of 5 cashew stakeholders representing
producers, processors, international traders.
The ACA Board of Directors consists of delegates from organizations providing more
than USD 50,000 of funding per year. The Board has voting rights regarding the use
of the ACA funds and provides guidance on ACA programming.
The ACA Secretariat manages the daily ACA operations, including funding,
development, activities, programming, communications, elections and membership.
The ACA Steering Committee provides input and is responsible for
presenting proposals and country-specific information to Executive Committee. The
Steering Committee members are responsible for relaying information and promoting the ACA
for 3 year terms. Members include 3-5 international marketers, 1 research expert, 1
elected/chosen country representative. Country representatives come from each of the 14 African cashew
producing countries who are elected out of country level stakeholder meetings.
ACA National Committees: Each country is
responsible for having a national ACA body, orfor using existing structures to
disseminate ACA information, and for organizing elections of national
representative. Each country must elect one person to represent national
stakeholders in the Steering Committee. National representatives are elected by
the national consultative committee for 3 year terms. The Executive Committee can
request a new election if the country representative is inactive.
ACA Members:
Members are individuals, private and public institutions involved in
the cashew sector, who
pay an annual membership fee. Members can participate in General
Assembly, held
every 2 years, to review ACA activities and elect the Executive
Committee. To find out more information about the benefits of
being a member visit our membership page.
ACA Friends: Friends of the ACA
are individuals or organizations that do not have a direct stake in the
cashew industry, but still would like to support the ACA. Friends
contribute a one time donation and receive the quarterly newsletter as
well as updates for upcoming events. To find out more information
about becoming an ACA friend visit our membership page.
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