These are the minutes for the 16th board meeting, which took places in Manila in the Philippines, in September 2015.

The Interim Board discussed the programme report, the Strategic Review, the DGF Final Report, the financial report, board membership and future meetings, fundraising and the two year plan. The programme update included a detailed breakdown of the national programmes of all current CoST members; Afghanistan, Botswana, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Honduras, Malawi,the Philippines, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Ukraine, the UK, Vietnam and Zambia.