states that

"The Affiliations Committee (formerly known as Chapters Committee, colloquially AffCom) is a Wikimedia community committee entrusted with advising the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees on the approval of new movement affiliates: national or subnational chapters, thematic organisations and user groups.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_affiliation_models

recognizes only an additional category of affiliation called "Movement partners" which states that

"Like-minded organizations that actively support the Wikimedia movement’s work. They are listed publicly and granted limited use of the marks for publicity indicating their support of and collaboration with Wikimedia."

Examples for like minded organizations are Mozilla, Creative Commons, WikiEducator, Freenode. A glaring observation about these examples are that they don't get involved with direct Wikimedia content generation work.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_affiliation_models/Movement_Partners

is itself in draft stage yet and there are no known (at least to me) movement partners publicly listed yet. 

There are no clear guidelines on the nature of work they can do and the extent of funding they can get.

There are very clear requirements and application page for chapters, thematic organizations and user groups. Please see the

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requirements_for_future_thematic_organizations

In the infobox in the same page, you can see that there are clear and strict guidelines, agreements and requirements that should be met by all such organizations.

So, my question is:

How is CIS-A2K eligible to get Annual Plan Grant through FDC? What is it's status within the Wikimeda affiliation model? Where are the guidelines, requirements and agreements for that?

It is not a joke to be recognized as a movement parter sans any transparency and bottom-up process when other affiliates like chapters and thematic organizations (like Amical Wikimedia) make a very tedious journey to be recognized.

If there is no convincing answer for this, CIS-A2K program can only be seen as a proxy program run by WMF to achieve its strategic goals in the region and it has no business doing work that should be done by the WMIN and the respective language communities.

Lack of "mature" regional communities / affiliates is not an excuse to fund unrecognized entities like this.

Extensive guidelines should be drafted for movement partners, CIS-A2K should go through the process and then only can it become eligible to apply for next round of funds irrespective of its legacy and history.

Thanks,

Ravi