ECA budget

Hi Maïa,

It's true that we repeated multiple times that we would publish the budget back in November and it never happened. I am going to try and get that out ASAP now.

As for the budget moving forward, the same group that organized the November Assembly is trying to think about the best way to open up questions of finance for the assembly. We are talking about this tomorrow and will come with a proposal for the wider group. Apologies for how slow it's been.

I personally think it's a good idea to try to organize a group for the ECA that is dedicated to funding. This overlaps with the conversation that took place in Brussels on November 17 led by @rubyvanderwekken along with some others: https://europeancommonsassembly.hackpad.com/Financing-the-Commons#Financing-the-Commons .

I hoped that these financial questions were going to be part of the Governance and Organizing group. While we are doing well with having regular calls every 2 weeks or so, we haven't really succeeded to get a solid broader group of participants together and on the same page. So we keep falling back on the original organizers of Nov 16, which isn't as democratic as we'd like it to be. I'm hoping after our conversation tomorrow we will have a clearer picture, and then we can focus on funding in the next Governance and Organizing Call, probably this Wednesday April 5.

Hope this helps.
Nicole

Here is the budget.

Thanks a lot for this perfect answer @nicoleleonard ! :thumbsup: :smiley:

With @fredericsultan and @gaelle11 we consider to do a session on funding strategies for the ECA in Villarceaux in OCtober. Just wanted to bring it up here so we can keep talking.