Process reviewed and approved by the DPCA Excom on December 4, 2017.
1a. Any member of Democrats Abroad may ask an elected DPCA member to sponsor a Resolution to be submitted to the Resolutions Committee. The DPCA member has the choice to sponsor or not. The DPCA member does not need to be from the member's country committee.
Alternatively
1b. A DA member may also submit a draft text for a vote to his/her CC. If adopted, a CC DPCA member must be willing to sponsor a Resolution to be submitted to the Resolutions Committee.
2. If the elected DPCA member chooses to sponsor the resolution, s/he takes ownership of the Resolution, and is responsible for submitting the document to the Resolutions Committee for review.
3. The Resolutions Committee makes sure the text of the resolution is drafted appropriately, reviews the resolution for redundancy with previous resolutions, consistency with DA values and factual accuracy. If necessary, the Resolutions Committee sends the resolution back to the resolution owner (the DPCA member) for further edits/corrections and restarts this step. The DPCA member is responsible for edits and re-submission to Resolutions Committee for approval.
4. When the Resolutions Committee has approved the format and content of the resolution, the Resolutions Committee then sends the resolution back to the DPCA member for submission to the DPCA. The DPCA member then submits the draft to the Int’l Chair for inclusion in the next DPCA meeting agenda, or if the ExCom deems it necessary, the Excom may call for an online debate and vote regarding the resolution.