Objectives for Girls and Young Women working group

[Emily Rodriguez]

Here are notes from our working group meeting today.  Please discuss and give feedback!   You are welcome to add more statements, goals, and ideas.  

Objectives of YOUNGO Girls and Young Women working group at COP16:

 

1.)   Network with youth and NGOs at COP16 who are interested in climate change issues pertaining to girls and young women.

2.)   Create awareness about the vulnerability of girls and young women to climate change and get more people talking about the intersection between youth, gender and climate change.

3.)   Get involved with UNFCCC gender caucus (9am meeting daily at COP16)

http://www.gendercc.net/policy.html

4.)   Attend different policy working group meetings to ensure that girls and young women are included in climate change solutions.

 

Long term goal:

 

Mention of gender equity in the UNFCCC or Kyoto Protocol.

 

Statements:

 

Girls and young are amongst the most vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change. These impacts can limit girls’ access to education and resources. 

 

According to UNIFEM, 70% of the world’s hungry are girls and women. 

 

Because of the high level of dependence on local natural resources for their livelihood, girls and young women are disproportionately affected by extreme events resulting from climate change. 

 

We are calling upon UNFCCC to recognize the impact of climate change on girls and young women, to recognize girls and young women as agents of change, and to respond with urgency. 

 

The UNFCCC Secretary General, Christiana Figueres, said that negotiations can be much more effective if we recognize a paradigm change based on responsibility to future generations, and that the human face of climate change must be understood.

Girls and young women must be recognized as stakeholders in the climate change negotiations.

[berna...@wagggsworld.org]

Hi all,

Great work! I would strongly recommend to emphasize also the huge hidden and often undiscovered potential of girls and young women as agents of change. It is important to portrait girls not only as victims but also as part of the solution. We should highlight that investing in girls and empower them to live up to their potential is the right thing and the smart thing to do in order to achieve progress when fighting climate change.

Hope this helps!

All the best,
Bernadette

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[MIRIAM OTIENO]

Noted!very crucial.
Rgds,
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[Marie Gro Svenstrup]

And it's a lot more positive. We need to tell the story about girls and women who can, who are able to do something, if they just get the needed support. So I do strongly agree with Bernadette.

2010/11/29 MIRIAM OTIENO <ohmar...@yahoo.com>

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[Katy]

Hi all

I've just put the statement in a document and added something on girls
and young women as powerful agents of change. See what you think!

Thanks

On Nov 29, 9:29 am, Marie Gro Svenstrup <mariesvenst...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> And it's a lot more positive. We need to tell the story about girls and
> women who can, who are able to do something, if they just get the needed
> support. So I do strongly agree with Bernadette.
>

> 2010/11/29 MIRIAM OTIENO <ohmariah...@yahoo.com>
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> >  Noted!very crucial.
> > Rgds,
> > Miriam
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>
> > Hi all,
>
> > Great work! I would strongly recommend to emphasize also the huge hidden
> > and often undiscovered potential of girls and young women as agents of
> > change. It is important to portrait girls not only as victims but also as
> > part of the solution. We should highlight that investing in girls and
> > empower them to live up to their potential is the right thing and the smart
> > thing to do in order to achieve progress when fighting climate change.
>
> > Hope this helps!
>
> > All the best,
> > Bernadette
>
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> > *Date: *Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:18:34 -0500
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> > *Subject: *Objectives for Girls and Young Women working group

>
> > Here are notes from our working group meeting today.  Please discuss and
> > give feedback!   You are welcome to add more statements, goals, and ideas.

> > *
> > *
>
> > *
> > *
>
> > *Objectives of YOUNGO Girls and Young Women working group at COP16:*

>
> > 1.)   Network with youth and NGOs at COP16 who are interested in climate
> > change issues pertaining to girls and young women.
>
> > 2.)   Create awareness about the vulnerability of girls and young women to
> > climate change and get more people talking about the intersection between
> > youth, gender and climate change.
>
> > 3.)   Get involved with UNFCCC gender caucus (9am meeting daily at COP16)
>
> >http://www.gendercc.net/policy.html
>
> > 4.)   Attend different policy working group meetings to ensure that girls
> > and young women are included in climate change solutions.
>

> > *Long term goal:*

>
> > Mention of gender equity in the UNFCCC or Kyoto Protocol.
>

> > *Statements: *

>
> > Girls and young are amongst the most vulnerable to the negative impacts of
> > climate change. These impacts can limit girls’ access to education and
> > resources.
>
> > According to UNIFEM, 70% of the world’s hungry are girls and women.
>
> > Because of the high level of dependence on local natural resources for
> > their livelihood, girls and young women are disproportionately affected by
> > extreme events resulting from climate change.
>
> > We are calling upon UNFCCC to recognize the impact of climate change on
> > girls and young women, to recognize girls and young women as agents of
> > change, and to respond with urgency.
>
> > The UNFCCC Secretary General, Christiana Figueres, said that negotiations
> > can be much more effective if we recognize a paradigm change based on
> > responsibility to future generations, and that the human face of climate
> > change must be understood.
>
> > Girls and young women must be recognized as stakeholders in the climate
> > change negotiations.
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Bernadette Fischler
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[MIRIAM OTIENO]

Oops the attachment please.
Miriam

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[MIRIAM OTIENO]

Dear All,
I have just made some slight changes to the document.Have a read please.
Regards,
Miriam

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[Katharine Chadwick]

The document is on the google site - there was not meant to be an
attachment :)

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This looks good Miriam!

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Hi all

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[MIRIAM OTIENO]

Dear All,
Id like to invite you for the girls and young women working group scheduled for
3pm tomorrow(30th November 2010),We shall meet at the WAGGGS-World Association
of Girl Guides and Girl .
Scouts stand as from 1450 hours and proceed at 1500hrs to the meeting venue
which shall be communicated to you in the course of the day.

[Suseth Gomez]

 Miriam I think good work is much better but if you can not include something that is very much social and economic aspects for which no information or education ambietal for women?
 
 
 
> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:36:42 -0800
> From: ohmar...@yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: Objectives for Girls and Young Women working group
> To: youthclimatepolicy...@googlegroups.com

[MIRIAM OTIENO]

Dear All,
Our next meeting shall be tomorrow at 1030hrs.we shall again meet at the WAGGGS
stand and proceed to a venue.In our meeting today,we discussed teh following:
1.Statement
2.Areas of focus-REDD
-Adaptation
-Shared Vision
We shared these amongst ourselves so that we can identify texts and give
recommendations.This shall be our discussion during tomorrow meeting.
Agenda:
1.Reporting on priority areas

2.Brainstorm on strategies to push our agenda forth.
3.AOB
Looking forward to seeing you at the meeting.

[MIRIAM OTIENO]

Dear All,
I have just worked on this document and I would kindly request that each one
fills up their space as we agreed :
Shared Vision,Capacity Building and REDD plus.
I am sure other issues have come up which we need to add into this document and
so we can also include that so that hopefully by next week we have a document
that we can share with others.

[Emily Rodriguez]

Thank you, Miriam.  Yes, I think it is a good idea to fill out this document, and then focus our efforts in one or two areas. 

Graham (College of the Atlantic), Bronwyn (WAGGGS) and I met with Goteland who is the focal point for the women and gender constituency.  We spoke about gender issues in climate change, the unjust power distribution among men and women in general, and some next steps for our policy group to take next week.  Please see my attached notes. 

We discussed the significance of the shared vision for human rights and gender rights, and plan to focus our efforts on the shared vision. Graham shared some GCCA gender text that we would also like to consider together. 

Check out these events today:
3-4 pm Nochebueno room finance meeting that NGOs are invited to attend (same room as gender caucus
4:45pm Jaguar event relating to gender

Best,
Emily

[Katharine Chadwick]

Hi everyone

 

We have an opportunity to put our questions forward to Christiana Figuerez tomorrow and the youth constituency will be choosing two questions tomorrow morning. To be considered for a question we need to submit something by 6pm this evening…

 

I had an idea for two questions either

a,  as a woman in the chair of what is often seen as a male dominated process, how important do you think it is to value the female perspective, and how can we empower more girls and young women to act as the ‘agents of change’ you talked about in Thursday’s intergenerational enquiry?

or b, ‘how can the youth constituency ensure that the question of human rights, and in particular women’s, youth and indigenous rights are respected within the shared vision?’

 

My feeling is that b might be more likely to be chosen as a question. Anyone got any other ideas? Any volunteers to ask it?

Please send your feedback by 5pm.

 

Thanks

Katy

 

 

 

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[Mary Shindler]

I would suggest a combination:  "as a woman in the chair of what is often seen as a male dominated process, how have you personally overcome some of these barriers, and how can the youth constituency ensure that the question of human rights, including women’s, youth and indigenous rights are respected as we move forward with a shared vision?’

 

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[Morgan Hamilton-Griffin]

I like the first question, prefer when it focus' on women as active agents, as leaders and being empowered

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[MIRIAM OTIENO]

I am also for the first question as it opens up the floor for her to share her expereince as a leader and how she can also input onto what we r trying to achieve .So question one.

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From: Morgan Hamilton-Griffin <mor...@ukycc.org>
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Sent: Fri, December 3, 2010 3:17:36 PM
Subject: Re: Questions for Figuerez?

[Graham Reeder]

I would push for the second question, although I like the combination. I think it is a good idea to push the shared vision in terms of policy in any venue we can, I worry that the first question is ideologically great but gives her the opportunity to give a non-answer and doesn't send her as strong of a message about priorities.

graham

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Morgan Hamilton-Griffin <mor...@ukycc.org> wrote:

I like the first question, prefer when it focus' on women as active agents, as leaders and being empowered

Morgan

On 3 December 2010 14:42, Katharine Chadwick <Kath...@wagggsworld.org> wrote:

Hi everyone

 

We have an opportunity to put our questions forward to Christiana Figuerez tomorrow and the youth constituency will be choosing two questions tomorrow morning. To be considered for a question we need to submit something by 6pm this evening…

 

I had an idea for two questions either

a,  as a woman in the chair of what is often seen as a male dominated process, how important do you think it is to value the female perspective, and how can we empower more girls and young women to act as the ‘agents of change’ you talked about in Thursday’s intergenerational enquiry?

or b, ‘how can the youth constituency ensure that the question of human rights, and in particular women’s, youth and indigenous rights are respected within the shared vision?’

 

My feeling is that b might be more likely to be chosen as a question. Anyone got any other ideas? Any volunteers to ask it?

Please send your feedback by 5pm.

 

Thanks

Katy

 

 

 

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Sent: 03 December 2010 17:53
To: youthclimatepolicy...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Objectives for Girls and Young Women working group

 

Thank you, Miriam.  Yes, I think it is a good idea to fill out this document, and then focus our efforts in one or two areas. 

Graham (College of the Atlantic), Bronwyn (WAGGGS) and I met with Goteland who is the focal point for the women and gender constituency.  We spoke about gender issues in climate change, the unjust power distribution among men and women in general, and some next steps for our policy group to take next week.  Please see my attached notes. 

We discussed the significance of the shared vision for human rights and gender rights, and plan to focus our efforts on the shared vision. Graham shared some GCCA gender text that we would also like to consider together. 

Check out these events today:
3-4 pm Nochebueno room finance meeting that NGOs are invited to attend (same room as gender caucus
4:45pm Jaguar event relating to gender

Best,
Emily

> > *From:* "bernade...@wagggsworld.org" <bernade..@wagggsworld.org>

[Katharine Chadwick]

Hi guys

 

Emily, Neva, Bronwyn, Miriam and myself have just had a chat and we agree that the second question is probably best in terms of pushing a particular idea forward. Also we have already asked Christiana about girls and young women as agents of change in the youth briefing, and we also feel that YOUNGO will be more likely to put forward the second question as it involves other stakeholders… so we’re going with the second question, hope that’s ok with everyone! And Bronwyn has volunteered herself to ask it.

 

Thanks

Katy

 

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Sent: 03 December 2010 21:26
To: youthclimatepolicy...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Questions for Figuerez?

 

I would push for the second question, although I like the combination. I think it is a good idea to push the shared vision in terms of policy in any venue we can, I worry that the first question is ideologically great but gives her the opportunity to give a non-answer and doesn't send her as strong of a message about priorities.

[Emily Rodriguez]

Sounds great!  Thank you for submitting the question.  I look forward to the briefing tomorrow!

Emily

[Neva Frecheville]

Hi Katy,

 

Sorry for disappearing off after the meeting with Lucy yesterday, we had a bit of an emergency meeting. It was really interesting to meet her and hear her advice, so thank you for organising that and taking such a good lead in the YW and G WG.

 

I just wanted to say sorry for not committing more time to the working group but it's hard to balance it with my commitment to making sure the UKYCC delegation are doing okay.

 

Please keep me in the loop and I'll try and keep up :)

 

Neva

 

 

 

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[Katharine Chadwick]

No problem at all Neva. We really appreciate all that you’ve done with the working group so far!

 

 

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[Katharine Chadwick]

Quick update for everyone

Our question got asked at the session this morning. Unfortunately it wasn’t Bronwyn who asked it as the time of the session got changed and I didn’t get the email in time so we weren’t there! My apologies for not being quick enough with that this morning (and especially to Bronwyn!)… I’ve asked for an update on her reply. If anyone in the group was there maybe you could inform us of what was said?

 

I will be meeting Tracy from UNIFEM after the gender caucus on Monday so anyone who is free please come along to the gender caucus meeting at 9am and we can then talk with Tracy about UNIFEM’s work on gender and climate change afterwards

 

For anyone who wasn’t at the meeting with Lucy from UNDP she gave us some really interesting ideas and had suggested a group of advocates working on gender to get in touch with. I will do that today. The idea is that potentially one or two people from this working group could shadow someone from the advocates group to see what policy issues they are working on and how they do it! I’ll keep you updated on this.

 

Thanks, see you all soon

Katy

 

 

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Sent: 04 December 2010 17:59

[Mimi Melles]

Hi everyone!

 

This is my first time emailing, but I’ve met some of you through the work I’m doing on young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights—and of course gender rights!  I’m actually not in Cancun anymore (I had to leave early), but I would love to include some language on the shared vision in the next couple days.

 

In the meantime, I wanted to announce that I’m compiling a list of young people who would like to participate in my organization’s Youth Advisory Board for our climate change campaign.  There are different tiers of engagement of which you can be involved which we will send out once we compile the list of people interested.

 

Basically, my organization wants young people to be involved in the design of our campaign that we plan to roll out in the year 2011 leading up to COP17 in South Africa. The campaign will be focused on mobilizing global youth in their communities to advocate for integration of SRHR in climate change policies in their respective countries.  Please let me know in the next day or two if you are interested in joining!

Also, I encourage you to check-in with your colleagues (whether or not they are in Cancun) to see if they want to be involved in any way.

 

Thanks,

Mimi

Advocates for Youth

[Mimi Melles]

Hi again,

 

Here’s the document with my edits. I plan to add more information as we make edits but these are my contributions for now. Hope you all are enjoying the 80’s degree weather-jealous!

Peace,

Mimi