New Director WPF

April 2009 both board of WPF and RNG have agreed upon an intended merger between WPF and Rutgers Nisso Group.

As of 1 June 2009 Frans Baneke has retired and stepped down as ex. director WPF. Preceding the intended merger between Rutgers Nisso Group (RNG) and WPF, Dianda Veldman (ex. director RNG), acts as ex. director WPF as of the same day. After the merger she will be the new ex. director of the combined organisations.
The WPF Board thanks Frans Baneke heartily for his work for WPF. The official good bye will be in september.

Why a merger between the organisations?
Both organisations share the same vision of people's sexual and reproductive rights and are complementary in this. WPF possesses a lot of international expertise, field offices and the MYBODY Campaign. Rutgers Nisso Groep is the expert centre on sexuality in the Netherlands and encompasses a powerful research department and an international youth programme. 
A combined organisation aims at synergy and counter fragmentation. This is in line with the Dutch government policy for development cooperation.  

What is Rutgers Nisso Group?
For over 100 years Rutgers Nisso Group and its predecessors - Rugters Stichting and NISSO (the Dutch Institute for Social Sexuologic research) are the Dutch expert organisations in the field of sexual health. RNG does research, has an information centre and develops educational programmes in The Netherlands and abroad.

What will change and when?
The aim is to have settled the formal merger on January 1st 2010. For the employees and projects does not change much at that tume. Naturally, we will try and find a new name for the organisation. Before the final settlement of the merger it will probably be 2011. Agreed is that the first phase of the merger project must be finalised 1 April 2010. 

Since 1 Januaruy 2011, WPF has merged with Rutgers Nisso Groep under the name Rutgers WPF. 

>>Interview with Dianda Veldman (Dutch)