Dear community leaders,
I am pleased to announce that the Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) Community Regional Outreach Program (CROP) space is now ready for your use. The CROP team
invites all community leaders and groups to collaboratively work with our regional Global Stakeholder Engagement (GSE) colleagues to develop Outreach Strategic Plans for FY26.
The following aspects of CROP will continue to apply for FY26:
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Applicable geographic regions and countries within regions – ICANN organization believes that it
will allow for greater clarity as well as community flexibility in many cases to use the
GSE list of countries and regions,
rather than the less detailed listing of official ICANN Public Meeting regions.
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Reimbursement for
conference registration fees – while the general rule remains that conference registration fees are not part of CROP funding, for FY26, the ICANN organization has created
a limited exception for cases where senior staff approval has been sought, obtained, and documented.
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Using 1 out of 3 trip allocations to an ICANN Public Meeting or ICANN-organized event – for FY26, any 1 out of the 3 trip allocations can be used to an ICANN Public Meeting or an ICANN-organized
event (if one is taking place in the applicable region). The ICANN organization hopes this will provide the ICANN community with greater flexibility in planning their FY26 strategic outreach activities.
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7-week deadline for trip requests – Trip proposals are due to the CROP administrator seven weeks before the start date
of the proposed trip. Concurrence from the relevant l GSE regional vice president is due at least six weeks before the start date of the proposed trip.
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CROP staff lead administrators – CROP administrators will be responsible for ensuring compliance
with the applicable deadlines, following up on trip proposals and assessment reports, and to generally assist you with the program. However, please continue to send your queries and reports to the usual email address (crop-staff@icann.org).
On behalf of the CROP support team, regional GSE colleagues, and the Travel Support team, I hope that your groups will find the FY26 CROP helpful in conducting your regional strategic
outreach activities.
The FY26 CROP space can be found
here.
FY26 CROP links are also available via the
CROP Confluence page. We
strongly encourage you to confirm your CROP Program Coordinators
and work with GSE colleagues to develop your Outreach Strategic Plans as soon as possible so that you can start submitting your FY26 CROP trip requests.
At-Large RALOs Workspace
GNSO Constituencies Workspace
Best regards,
CROP staff
Ozan Sahin
Policy Development Support Senior Specialist
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)