The Ciosa Advisory Committee is constituted of representatives of NGO members within the CIOSA network who volunteered to be on the Committee. Members of the committee are usually heads of their respective NGOs and are therefore well senior practitioners who bring their wealth of experience and expertise to the table. Care is taken to make the committee gender sensitive and sector-aware.

The Advisory Committee is an effort by CIOSA to provide its constituent members with an opportunity to participate in the governance of CIOSA, even if only in an advisory capacity. The recommendations of the Committee are usually implemented in toto and rarely, if ever, rejected by the CIOSA Board of Trustees who are ex-officio members of this committee.

The Committee meets once a month and advises CIOSA, among other things, on:

• Inclusion of NGOs who have applied for membership
• Exclusion of NGOs who do not meet CIOSA norms
• Any other matter that is of importance to the conduct, smooth functioning and growth of the network.

Members of the current Advisory Committee

• Dr. Vasantha Kumari, Executive Director, Incad Foundation
• Mr. F. Abubeckar, Secretary, KCRDS
• Mr. Ashokkumar Prabath, Chief Executive Officer, Hope Foundation
• Mr. G. Gopalan, Managing Trustee, Akshaya Trust
• Mr. Radhakrishna Murthi, Secretary, Nalmanam
• Mr. S. Shanmugam, Secretary, Bro Siga Animation Centre
• Mr. P. Chandrasekharan, Secretary, Tamil Nadu Foundation
• Ms. Geetha Mathew, Founder Trustee, Friends For the Needy
• Ms. Latha Suresh, Co-Ordinator, Manava Seva Dharma Samvardhini Trust
• Ms. Parvathy Viswanath, Founder Trustee, Aikya Charitable Trust
• Ms. Sowmya Simhan, Trustee, Maithri Educational and Charitable Trust
• Ms. Uma, Trustee, Suyam Charitable Trust

Ex-officio members

• Mr. K. Pandiarajan, Founder Trustee, CIOSA

• Airvice Marshal V. Krishnaswamy, Trustee, CIOSA
• Mr. P. N. Devarajan, Trustee, CIOSA
• Ms. Kaveri Natarajan, Trustee, CIOSA
• Mr. Sankar Mahadevan, CIOSA
• Mr. S. Prasanna, Programme Manager, CIOSA