These are the minutes for the 17th board meeting, in December 2015.

The Interim Board discussed the programme report, improving performance monitoring, the Global Advocacy Strategy, the Strategic Review and outreach. The programme report included an in-depth review of the current CoST countries; Afghanistan, Botswana, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Honduras, Malawi, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Ukraine, the UK, Vietnam and Zambia. There was also discussion of the workshop in Lima, Peru and interest from Mexico. The Board also reviewed the report card.