Program Operations

Key Deliverables

1)    Travel Allocations:

2)    Funded Costs/Expenses: includes transportation (economy), lodging, and $50 USD per diem (3 days, 2 nights standard).

3)    Booking: all travel booked via ICANN BCD to ensure consistency, proper accounting, recordation, and tracking against budget. See also Important Travel Guidelines. 

Operating Guidelines

It is important to understand that ICANN's intention with this pilot program is to fund individual trips to specific events for the purposes of conducting outreach. No money is being granted or allocated to any structure or organization, only a fixed number trips within the 2014 fiscal year. The following guidelines will apply for the duration of this pilot:

1. Any single outreach event may be attended by multiple persons; however, each one is considered an individual trip requiring a separate Trip Request Form.
2. If an approved trip is voided or cancelled for some unanticipated and extraordinary reason, an extra trip will be allocated to the affected organization.
3. Travel may not be booked individually or through the event organizers; ICANN's internal travel department will ensure that financial outlays are optimized to the maximum extent possible.
4. For this pilot program, it will not be possible to support trip "compounding" or "splitting" of expenses or any other strategy with a goal of increasing the number of individual trips (limit of 5) assigned to an organization. While ICANN appreciates all reasonable efforts on the part of participants to minimize expenses, each individual trip stands on its own and requires separate authorization and tracking.
5. Trips must originate and conclude within the same region and should, wherever practicable, be taken by someone working in or proximate to that territory.
6. All trips must be completed before the end of ICANN's 2014 fiscal year, that is, the participant must have returned to his/her originating destination on or before 30 June 2014. If the program is continued in a succeeding year, at ICANN's discretion, any pilot trip allocated but not taken will not carry over.

Each structure/organization is responsible for appointing 1-2 Pilot Program Coordinators whose responsibility will be:

1. Facilitate and manage trip pre-approvals within the organization and region, if applicable.
2. Once approvals have been obtained, complete the online Wiki Trip Request Form (see Forms) for subsequent processing on behalf of each traveling participant to the event/conference.
3. Ensuring that an alternate is identified for each participant in the event that some unanticipated condition prevents the originally identified person from attending the event.

The role of ICANN's Program Administrators (Staff) will be to:

1. Confirm that all applications meet the guidelines/criteria and have been properly authorized by the applicable organization;
2. Coordinate with other ICANN departments (e.g., Communications, Meeting Planning) as needed to maximize outreach effectiveness; 
3. Monitor the pilot implementation for completeness and accuracy; 
4. Provide guidance and interpretation to the community consistent with the progam's principles; and
5. Manage, track, and report program's status as requested by ICANN management and/or community leaders.

Principles and Criteria

1)    Efficient, Effective, and Timely Process:

2)    Evaluation Criteria: For each proposed trip:

3)    Transparency:

Information concerning the management and administration of this program will be made publicly available including: