Indeed, this is all very interesting material; thank you everyone for
taking the time to share it.
Wikimedia DC has separate expense reimbursement (
) policies. I wonder if this is
more common in chapters that primarily deal with non-travel reimbursements,
versus a combined policy in chapters that mainly have travel-related ones?
Kirill
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Josh Lim <jamesjoshualim(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
This is great, Emeric! We’d be glad to take a look at
this. :)
For our part, Wikimedia Philippines has a travel policy as part of our
Expense Policy, and it’s been working well for us for the last 3-4 years
now. We’ll be glad to share our policy as well.
http://www.wikimedia.org.ph/wmph/Expense_Policy#A._Travel_expenses
Regards,
Josh
Wiadomość napisana przez Emeric Vallespi
<emeric.vallespi(a)wikimedia.fr>
w dniu 9 mar 2015, o godz. 16:49:
Dear movement fellows,
After our "Board handbook", we are pleased to share with you the
Wikimédia France "Travel policy" (this time, in French and English!):
(en)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimédia_France/Politique_de_voyage/en
(fr)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimédia_France/Politique_de_voyage
This document is the compilation and formalization of our expenses
reimbursement's practices for several years.
The main goal of this formalization is to clarify, for our various
stakeholders in the organization, the expenses which can be reimbursed,
the amounts, the conditions and the process.
And because it's clearer we think that it's going to facilitate the
volunteers involvement. Indeed, by knowing in advance if expenses can be
covered, we are hoping that volunteers will take more initiatives to do
projects, even if there is a cost.
Of course, it facilitates the work of our treasurers and executive
director who deal with the approval of expenses requests/reports,
because the commons cases are anticipated in the policy, and now they
have to intervene only for specific cases, which are less frequent.
It is also ensuring a healthier governance: it clarifies the process of
escalation if needed and it provides fairness for every requests'
answers.
Besides it allowed to define consensually the
frame of reimbursements
with different stakeholders.
As it might be useful for other entities, we shared in a Learning
Patternswhy we think it's useful for us to have this policy,what
problems it solves and how we have solved them:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Travel_policy_−_de…
Moreover, we did an "unofficial"
translation of the policy (link above)
to ease your feedback possibilities about this policy, about the process
we followed or to be inspired by if you are thinking about such an
initiative of document in your organization.
Feel free to ask any questions or make suggestions of improvement.
Cheers,
--
Emeric Vallespi
Vice President
Wikimédia France
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