At a meeting of the Board of Directors on 4 November 2008 in Nanjing, China, Peter Götz (Germany), the newly elected President of the Global Parliamentarians on Habitat (GPH), charted the course for the future work of the parliamentarians' organisation.
Since the new president of GPH Europe elected in April 2008 in Bucharest, Romania, Senator Constantin Traian Igaş (Romania), was unable to attend the meeting of the Board of Directors, he was represented by the former president of GPH Europe, Peter Götz.
The GPH groups from Africa and Asia expressed their intention to organise regional meetings to elect new presidents. Since there had previously been no organised GPH chapter for Africa, Mariam Nalubega (Uganda) declared her willingness to carry out an initial meeting and the election of a board of directors for Africa.
Topics of discussion included the institutionalisation of the GPH and desired amendments to the GPH Rules of Procedure which concerned membership in particular.
The organisation of the next Global Forum was discussed as well. Senator Eloy Cantú Segovia (Mexico) declared his willingness to ask Argentina and El Salvador whether they would be willing to host the next Global Forum of the GPH.