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During the World Council of Optometry’s most recent governing board meeting, WCO leaders established a new Advocacy Committee designed to ensure that the council’s work will have more of an impact, according to a report from the meeting. Eighteen board members from 13 countries, representing six world regions, attended the gathering.

Maria Arce, WCO’s director of international affairs, reported that the executive committee agreed that the secretariat should work to strengthen communication with the world regions and develop standard communication tools by which to do so.

The WCO governing board approved its business plan and budget, agreed to create a policy on endorsing position statements from other organizations and made changes to its Articles of Association, according to Arce’s report.

Recommendations for the Distinguished Service Award and the International Optometrist Award were also presented by the WCO awards selection panel, the report said; the awards will be announced at the General Delegates’ Meeting in Malaga next year.

WCO President Tone Garaas-Maurdalen, OD, noted the role of the profession and the WCO in solving the public’s needs.

“It will be hard work and requires strategic thinking and good communication both internally and externally,” she said. “But I can see we are on the right track.”

The governing board meeting was held during the WCO-sponsored EyeTeach: From Clinician to Educator workshop for Thai optometric educators, Nov. 17 to 18.