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One of the five objectives of ICANN’s In 2019, the ICANN Board initiated a project aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of ICANN's multistakeholder model – one of the strategic objectives outlined in ICANN's Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years (FY) 2021-2025. This effort is critical to ensuring that improve the effectiveness of our multistakeholder model is able to evolve and meet the ever-changing needs of ICANN's global community.

Following the launch of the project, the Board began soliciting input from the community, as part of larger discussions regarding the draft ICANN Operating and Financial Plan for FY 2021-2025. The discussion, facilitated by Brian Cute, Chair of the first and second Accountability and Transparency Review Teams (ATRT), identified six priority topics that the community believes to be hampering the effective and efficient functioning of ICANN's multistakeholder model, such as the prioritization of work and efficient use of resources.

In June 2020, the Board posted its paper, "model of governance – a model that grew to fit our needs. As ICANN continues to evolve, and as our environment becomes more complex, our governance model must also evolve; without compromising our deeply valued bottom-up decision making process. The 'Enhancing the Effectiveness of ICANN's Multistakeholder Model – Next Steps," for Public Comment. The paper lays out a comprehensive plan for continuous improvement of the multistakeholder model. Following the close of the Public Comment period in August, the Board worked to incorporate the community's input into an updated version of the paper, which is available here' project was launched in 2019 to address this strategic objective. This project is not a stand-alone initiative, but instead is one piece of an overall comprehensive approach to evolving the multistakeholder model by incorporating existing work efforts and identifying the needs for future improvement.