New YOUNGO Gender Working Group and More!

[Kimberley D.C. Schroder]

Hello there all!

New people, please see the below thread for the whole conversation (I pasted emails in to make it complete).  Basically, we are talking about opportunities (e.g. with PAI) and ways to formally integrate gender, and sometimes SRHR (sexual and reproductive health and rights) specifically, into the youth climate movement (YOUNGO is the official youth constituency of the UNFCCC).

I apologize for squeezing a lot into this email.

Thanks Jean-Paul, Esther, and Bernadette for joining the conversation.  

Esther, I know you're doing great work on connecting SRHR into the Nigerian Youth Climate Coalition - let's keep that going and spread the momentum!  How is your proposal to UNFPA going?  Let me/us know if I/we can help further support your efforts, or if you have any ideas for how to scale such work elsewhere.

Jean-Paul, I appreciate your involvement and hope to work with you more on integrating SRHR into YOUNGO on a regular basis where appropriate, as well as building the SRHR-Climate youth movement in Cameroon.

Bernadette, thank you (and WAGGGS in general) for all your efforts at the previous two COPs.  I do remember that first meeting in Copenhagen and trying to reach out to YOUNGO and elsewhere. In the past 2 years, various people from different groups have expressed interest and identify with the idea of YOUNGO having a WG on gender.  As a Lifetime Adult Girl Scout, I am aware of the focus and context for using "girls and young women" and agree that is an important perspective to have.  However, my own personal understanding as well as several conversations with many individuals (particularly at COP16) brings me to the conclusion that the most useful addition to YOUNGO's WGs would be one explicitly labeled gender to include both men and women (not to say that men are not welcome in a group entitled 'girls and young women', but as COY6 meetings taught us, many choose to not associate themselves with it).  Also, the name "youthclimatepolicy...@googlegroups.com" is rather long and implies a sub-group of the Policy WG.

I included the Girls and Young Women group in this email.  I'm also CC'ing Mimi Melles from Advocates for Youth who worked with me these last two COPs (including on the Policy Statement - see the COP16 one attached) and was involved in the report Ethan sent around earlier.  Other new CCs: fpyouth was an old attempt at a comprehensive group I tried before COP15, Cassie Gardener is the former National Organizer with the Sierra Club's Global Population and Environment Program, and GoJoven is a Meso-American youth SRHR group we partnered with at COP16.  Welcome!

THE POINT:  

I propose we create a working group within YOUNGO explicitly focused on gender - and not just about UN text/policy, but supporting integrating gender issues such as SRHR (sexual and reproductive health and rights) into youth climate movements on the ground all over the world.  Let's empower young people to make the connections they need to bring about comprehensive positive change in their own communities.  It can all work together - including addressing climate destabilization, meeting family planning needs, educating girls, teaching comprehensive sexuality education, empowering women, and other ways we work to create a just and sustainable world.  The youth climate movement should reflect that, and therefore needs a WG dedicated to figuring out and helping articulate/integrate such connections, as well as a contact point for other interested people/groups.

Do you agree?

Now we just need an email name.  After looking over the existing YOUNGO google group names, there a a few different trends we could follow.  I suggest a short name that is easy to remember, such as: youth_gender_climate, youngo-gender, or related permutations.  

My personal preference is to make the group as inclusive as possible for all people interested in the intersection of youth, gender, and climate, and not dependent on people already being familiar with or having to explain YOUNGO, plus I think underscores make the words clearer, so my vote is for: "youth_gend...@googlegroups.com".

Let's reach out to everyone we already know is interested in this topic and start an official YOUNGO Gender WG!  

IF YOU HAVE A PREFERENCE FOR THE EMAIL OF THE NEW YOUNGO GENDER GROUP, OR ANYTHING TO SAY BEFORE THE CREATION OF THE GOOGLE GROUP, PLEASE REPLY(-ALL) TO THIS EMAIL BY MONDAY FEB 21ST (GMT -12)!

I will send a short message to unfccc_youth tomorrow asking those interested for their feedback by the 21st as well.  If you have suggestions for this message, please let me know ASAP.  Feel free to forward (the ideas behind) this email to potentially-interested others.

Then, after the 21st, we will figure out the consensus and add the new email to the list of YOUNGO WGs both on the UNFCCC_youth google group and at http://sites.google.com/site/unfcccyoungo/working-groups (however, moderators who can edit those pages will have to do the actual adding - Kyle?).

I picked the 21st because that seemed like a reasonable amount of time without excessive delay.  If you have other ideas, please speak up!

I am also now speaking with Shelly from PAI directly, so anyone else interested in that conversation can contact me and/or Ethan.

Thanks everyone :D  I'm very excited to see wider movement and discussions on one of my passions!

Happy V-Day,

-Kimberley

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2011/2/14 jean paul brice affana <jeanpau...@yahoo.fr>

Hi Ethan and all, Great to see how discussions are moving positively with Shelly from the PAI. Regarding the next steps it's very important that we follow those discussions and don't miss this opportunity. Ethan have you been contacted by someone from the Capacity-building WG yet ? The WG should work to identify YOUNGO priorities on this opportunity so that the offer meet the lack of training. The attached file you sent can really help here as it provide more useful information. Is Esther and Bernadette accepted to lead respectively the global south aspect as well as the gender aspect you raised in your e-mail ? If not yet perhaps you could remind to them that. I also think Kimberley could work closely with Bernadette on the gender aspect as they both manifested their interest. I'm not sure the gender group proposed in a previous e-mail is already created. Any idea here ? One more time, good work Ethan and let's make it happen ! Jean Paul Brice Affana   Focal Point to the UNFCCC Secretariat YOUNGOs | Youth Constituency at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |  jean...@youthclimate.org | www.youthclimate.org | +237 96 32 49 98 | P.O Box: 20.387 Yaoundé, Cameroon --- En date de : Dim 13.2.11, Ethan Case <etha...@gmail.com> a écrit : De: Ethan Case <etha...@gmail.com> Objet: Re: [BL team] Re: Youth Climate Movement and Research Opportunities À: "Esther Agbarakwe" <done...@gmail.com>, youthclimatepolic...@googlegroups.com Cc: "Bernadette Fischler" <berna...@wagggsworld.org>, "Kimberley D.C. Schroder" <kimber...@gmail.com>, "Kyle Gracey" <kyleg...@sustainus.org>, marcie...@sustainus.org, bottom...@googlegroups.com, "Katharine Chadwick" <Kath...@wagggsworld.org> Date: Dimanche 13 février 2011, 1h03 Hey all. I had a very productive call with Shelly Amieva from Population Action International about their potential youth health issues related to climate earlier this week. She was happy to get our feedback, but she asked me to emphasize that PAI is exploring the potential of expanding their youth/climate/reproductive health advocacy and research and that nothing is definite yet. However, it is my impression from the meeting that if enough us say "hey, we're glad to hear that you're considering this, we think it's good for the youth climate movement, we specifically need this, this, and this for capacity building, this is how you can help us empower ourselves" then it is much more likely to happen. She'd like to be in touch with someone from the Capacity Building working group who could give her an idea about YOUNGO capacity building in the past and how it might work with PAI (please, someone from the Capacity Building WG email me!), and someone from the Girls and Young Women and Climate Change policy group (Bernadette, it's you if there are no objections), and also someone who can speak a little about global south youth capacity building around climate/health (Esther, I'll send her your contact information if that's alright). If you want to interact with Shelly about youth/climate/reproductive health issues, or if you know people who are interested, please let me know and I'll give you her contact info and update you more about our conversation so far. Please also make sure interested people read PAI's proposal further down in this email thread so that they can get a better idea of what PAI is thinking of doing. Attached is a Youth consultation carried out by Advocates for Youth (perhaps another capacity building partner) about the intersection of youth/climate/health carried out last year (Note: only 36 participants..so many more here!). Good document to get a feel for these issues, and a good document showing what type of capacity-building data we can point to for future funds if we can set up partnerships other organizations. More ideas, more people, more strategy welcomed. Now, dinner time. Hope you all are well. Ethan P.S. Could someone please add the the girls and young women working group to this thread (I'm sure there are more ideas there) and also add them to the list of YOUNGO WGs here: http://groups.google.com/group/unfccc_youth?pli=1? On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Esther Agbarakwe <done...@gmail.com> wrote: Dear BL Team   And for us in the Nigerian Youth Climate Coalition, we are exploring a funding opportunity with UNFPA Nigeria on SRH/Climate change in the area of Capacity buiding and research.   Reading this email line is very inspiring and encouraging.   I love to be part of the group to learn and share.   Best On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Ethan Case <etha...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello everyone. Thank you so much for your feedback! It has all been very helpful. I plan on talking with Shelly at the Population Action Institute later this week or early next week about this feedback and better understand how we can collaborate. After this initial discussion, perhaps we can open up these talks further and put more people in touch with Shelly. I want to emphasize, as Shelly did, that they are currently only exploring the potential of adding a youth component to an existing climate and health program. However tentative this is, it is good that we have so much to bring PAI from the youth perspective. Good day to you all, Ethan On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Bernadette Fischler <berna...@wagggsworld.org> wrote: Hi Kimberly, Marcie and Ethan,   I am excited to see that the gender topic is taken up in the bottomliner team and beyond and thrilled to see that there are finally more people wanting to actively engage on the gender topic. As Kimberly quite rightly pointed out WAGGGS has been coordinating (not controlling!)  a policy group called 'girls and young women and climate change' at the last two COPs but didn't have the capacity to keep it going between COPs.   We started out with promoting the group widely within YOUNGO and the gender constituency and openly inviting as many interested people along as possible to get the discussions started, learn and share and kick off some action. Therefore I am surprised that Kimberly thinks the group isn't open or democratic - maybe it is worth having a conversation about this to get some prejudice and misunderstandings out of the way.   In WAGGGS we certainly have great experience in youth work, educational programmes, promoting youth participation in decision-making and lobbying at UN events but not so much background for example in research so I feel there is great potential to join forces and move beyond lobbying and influencing the text together. I don't think that it makes much sense to have two parallel groups.   Best wishes from frosty London, Bernadette     Bernadette Fischler Advocacy Coordinator         2011/2/1 Kyle Gracey <kyleg...@sustainus.org> Cool. Generally, the way for people to start new groups is to just post a call out on UNFCCC_youth and youthclimateinfo for people who are interested in working on these issues and then see if you have other people interested in them (which it sounds like you already sort of do). Then, the interested people can create a new "affinity group" and make a mailing list that fits with the usual naming convention of the groups, so it's easy to remember (youngo-gender or youth_climate_gender would be fine, or you could even be more explicit and make it women-focused if you wanted). As long as the list is open to anyone in YOUNGO to join, it's a group process without one person "in charge" in the sense of having all the power (though coordinators are totally fine), and you keep the larger lists informed of your activities, that's great. And it doesn't have to be a policy-specific group if you all don't want it to be. I've copied all of the lists of groups over from the UNFCCC_youth main page to this page (http://sites.google.com/site/unfcccyoungo/working-groups) so we can still keep track of what groups exist and add new ones. It would be up to you all to decide if it makes more sense to have this be a reconstituted form of the previous Girls and Young Women/Gender groups that have existed, or something totally new, or even something that was more narrowly focused on sexual and reproductive rights and health. Just let the BL Team know if you need anything from us.   From: bottom...@googlegroups.com [mailto:bottom...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kimberley D.C. Schroder Sent: 31 January 2011 21:35 To: Ethan Case Cc: Kyle Gracey; marcie...@sustainus.org; bottom...@googlegroups.com Subject: [BL team] Re: Youth Climate Movement and Research Opportunities   Hello there Ethan,   Thanks for including me in this conversation.  I've known Rodger-Mark since he was part of Sierra Club's Population and Environment Program when I was a Green-Pink Fellow with them.  He just took this new position at PAI right before Cancun, and when I saw him there, we discussed possible collaborations and important research/messaging gaps to fill (such as plugging 350ppm and climate justice goals into our framework).   On YONGO's end, we need a formal Gender group.  The "Girls and Young Women" group that sorta existed these last two COPs is essentially controlled by WAGGGS and only has that name on the insistance of their delegation leader (whereas "Gender" includes men and women).  It is not an open and democratic group, nor does it really exist yet between COPs.  I want to change that.  I request an official Gender Working Group with a Google Group linked to unfccc_youth, though I am not sure where it goes in the YOUNGO structure.  I don't think it fits as a sub-group of Policy, as we would not solely be focused on text and negotiations, but also working with youth on the ground in their home communities and capacity-building of youth organizations [i.e assisting youth climate movement groups to include SRHR (Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights) and bringing youth SRHR groups into the youth climate movement].  We already started this important connecting work in Cancun by having workshops at COY, bringing a few international youth SRHR activists to the conference, and working with existing SRHR orgs (like PAI) such as through side-events.  However, we need to do more and also formalize our efforts so that they are not dependent on a handful of people and anyone who's interested can join.   Possible @googlegroups.com emails for the Gender Working Group: youth_gender_climate, youngo-gender, and related permutations...    Based on Shelley's email below, their Research, Advocacy, and Communications breakdown seems relevant and I think Kyle's main points are good.  The outline Shelley provided is for PAI's internal structure/goals, though they generally align with what we're doing or would like to do.  Certainly we are open to working with specific organizations to accomplish meaningful goals (like we have with Advocates for Youth, GoJoven, Sierra Club, and others).   We need support in terms of research, messaging, and truly integrating SRHR into YOUNGO's efforts/mindset/policies when appropriate (such as the issues surrounding marginalizing gender that I brought up at the YOUNO debrief after COP16).  This certainly means workshops at COY, though I personally am intrigued by the idea of trainings or other virtual events throughout the year, as well as during COY.  Funding for international SRHR youth to attend COY7/COP17 is a big part, as well as for actions/events while there, but we also need to work on general movement building (or in the case, "movement-integrating" may be more appropriate :D ).   We could certainly help PAI determine many of the items bulleted in Shelley's email and are working on some of those already (particularly messaging), but I'll save specific elaboration for later!   Basically, collaborating with PAI is a great opportunity and I would love to be part of a conference call resulting from your communications with Shelley or anything else where my participation could be useful.   Also, Marcie and I talked about growing the YOUNGO Gender Working Group, so she may be particularly interested in following or participating in this sort of conversation.   Thanks, hope you enjoyed your weekend, and looking forward to talking with you more, -Kimberley   (925) 766-8813       2011/1/31 Ethan Case <etha...@gmail.com> Hey Kimberley. Before I reach out to Shelley at the Population Action Institute about collaborations with youth and YOUNGO regarding reproductive health, foreign policy, and climate change, I would really like to hear what you have to think, what you've been doing in this area, and what you envision as possible in this potential PAI initiative outlined below. Because you're the expert yo. Thanks and good day to you, Ethan 2011/1/28 Kyle Gracey <kyleg...@sustainus.org> Thanks, Ethan. I have a couple of thoughts where they could contribute to the work of YOUNGO: * Hosting policy trainings and webinars on these issues for interested youth, such as at COY, and virtually before or during COY for youth who can't be there * Providing some funding for youth to do actions around these issues at the negotiations, since we are always in need of money for props, posters, materials, etc. * Since they're asking, perhaps funding youth (maybe Global South youth?) who were interested in coming to the negotiations specifically to advocate for these issues... Any cooperation with them would need to complement, not replace, the work that some youth in YOUNGO are already doing around these issues, but I see you've copied Kimberley, who has been working on them, so please keep her in the loop in any future conversations with PAI. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ethan Case <etha...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:51 PM Subject: Fwd: Youth Climate Movement and Research Opportunities To: bottom...@googlegroups.com Cc: kimber...@gmail.com Dear Bottomliners, Shelly Amieva from Population Action International contacted me about collaborating with youth, the pith of the message being this: "I am interested in learning more about the need for capacity building [for YOUNGO] and how PAI can help strengthen the youth climate movement." The message below goes into their interest in reproductive health and climate change and how they are beginning to envision their role in strengthening the movement. Please take a look and send some feedback and ideas about what you all think a collaboration might look like, what might be good to talk to Shelly about, and things people who speak with Shelly should think about before a conversation. Also, if anyone else is interested in speaking directly with Shelly about this initiative, please let me know. Never would have known about this had I not yelled at someone who looked familiar on the street who turned out to be an old friend...it's climate magic. Good day to you all, Ethan   ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shelly Amieva <sam...@popact.org> Date: Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:32 PM Subject: Youth Climate Movement and Research Opportunities To: "etha...@gmail.com" <etha...@gmail.com> Dear Ethan Case, I work at Population Action International  in the Research Department and I am a colleague of Erika Larson. The Research Vice President, Roger-Mark De Souza, is interested in adding  a youth component to our research department, including our Climate Change Initiative. Currently, we are in the process of assessing what potential niches PAI could find within the RH/FP-youth Climate movement and what value PAI could add to this youth climate change movement.  If we were to incorporate a youth component to our department we imagine that this work might involve the following components: Research: *       Determine research gaps on international youth RH/FP topics *       Research the capacity building needs of youth-organizations regarding research and advocacy *       Determine gaps and conduct research on specific RH-climate change connections of particular relevance to youth *       Develop a small grants program to promote young researchers interested in exploring RH/FP-climate change connections *       Develop a research mentoring program to match established researchers with youth-based organizations Advocacy: *       Determine strong entry points for youth advocacy on RH/FP issues *       Determine key opportunities, partners and countries for advocacy on RH/FP-climate change connections *       Develop a small grants program that would strengthen the advocacy capacity of youth led and youth focused organizations interested in linking FP/RH-climate change connections Communications: *       Determine messages that work for youth on RH/FP - climate change connections *       Determine the best ways to contribute to existing coalition efforts that are reaching out to youth Erika informed me that you are actively involved in the international youth climate movement and attended the COP16 international climate negotiations with SustainUS.  What struck me about the information she provided about you is that your are interested in partnering with organizations to build capacity of youth organizations in order to strengthen the international youth climate movement. 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[Bernadette Fischler]

Dear All,

 

I think it is very exciting to create a working group within YOUNGO explicitly focusing on gender and I am absolutely for it. So LET'S DO IT :-)

 

As one of the coordinators of the existing girls and young women policy group I feel I should give some background information on why it was set up this way. The youth dels in my organization, WAGGGS, took the initiative at COP15 to form this group and invite other interested youth along as we saw that this topic wasn't really taken up by any other YOUNGO working groups but felt that it certainly deserves a group on its own. At COP16 we worked on growing the group, promoting it within YOUNGO and also establishing links with the gender caucus (which is the gender constituency at UNFCCC).

 

The reason we have been focussing on girls and young women only is simply because our organization's competency is based on work around girls and young women so we would be overpromising if we would claim to cater for both genders. Now the situation has changed and with finally more people on board who are happy to step up and move the group forward I think it makes great sense to widen the scope.

 

For a similar reason we established this group as a policy group - it didn't make sense to pretend to do more than what was realistically possible to deliver but with more people on board I am sure it will work well to run also other activities.

 

However, I feel that, while starting to reach out and support young people on the ground to make connections, bring about change and claim their rights is really important, we should not lose the work around UN texts/policy as one activity within the group. YOUNGO is after all a constituency of UNFCCC - so contributing to the UN process is one of the reasons for our existence.

 

I think having a new email name is a good start (and I do not mind whatever you chose as long as it contains gender and youth or YOUNGO and is somehow aligned with the existing group names in YOUNGO) but what we need as well to establish this group is commitments, an agreed understanding what we are trying to achieve, ideas on activities, some sort of coordination and regular exchange, maybe even a hint of a strategy, etc.

 

My suggested message to unfccc_youth is:

 

Call to join new gender working group!

 

We are inviting youth to get involved in the newly formed gender working group, a new and improved version of the previously existing 'girls and young women and climate change' policy working group.

 

The group will work not only on getting gender in UN texts and make policy recommendations, but also supporting integrating gender issues such as SRHR (sexual and reproductive health and rights) into youth climate movements on the ground all over the world.  The idea is to empower young people to make the connections they need to bring about comprehensive positive change in their own communities. Among other topics we aim to address climate destabilization, meeting family planning needs, educating girls, teaching comprehensive sexuality education, empowering women, and other ways we work to create a just and sustainable world.

 

To start the discussion we would like to get your feedback on this group - what topics you would like to see addressed and what activities would you like to see happening. Please send your feedback to xxx (I think we should just go ahead and set up the google group so people can join and feedback there directly but maybe somebody has a better way of how to do this).

 

All the best,

Bernadette

 

Bernadette Fischler

Advocacy Coordinator

 

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[Kimberley D.C. Schroder]

Hey peeps,

Great point, Bernadette, on stating that we need to define the scope/roles/focus/etc of the group.  Of course it should still involve policy - I was just emphasizing that the Gender WG can be more than that.  This process can be one of the first orders of business once we get the group up - or people can even start brainstorming now.

True, it would be useful to already have the email set up before sending it out to the whole unfccc_list.  I was trying to make the name-selection as democratic as possible, but perhaps the name options are close enough that no one really has any objections to using "youth_gender_climate".  

In light of this, I am REVISING THE TIMELINE:  Unless I hear any objections by tomorrow morning (PT), I will go ahead and create a "youth_gender_climate" Google Group and then email out to the unfccc_youth list announcing its formation along the lines of what Bernadette synthesized below.  

Esther, I think you're suggesting we do an online meeting of sorts.  I agree that would be good.  Once people join the group, we can propose times for a meeting next week - like a Skype call (or do people have other suggestions?) - so we can all meet each other, get on the same page, and make some decisions right off the bat to get the ball rolling!  (Too many metaphors?)

Yay I'm excited!

-Kimberley

2011/2/15 Bernadette Fischler <berna...@wagggsworld.org>

[Emily Rodriguez]

Hello Gender Climate Team!

It is very exciting to read that there is so much energy towards creating a powerful YOUNGO Gender working group.  The PAI sounds like a wonderful opportunity.  I am interested in participating in the Gender Working Group skype call next week and getting involved.  I'll keep following the emails and thanks to Kimberley, Esther, and Bernadette for taking the initiative to get the gender group going between the COPs. 

Best,
Emily

[MIRIAM OTIENO]

Dear All,
Great discussion flowing here.Just two suggestions,I propose we have the online meeting on Friday,could we all propose suitable times and then agree on one convenient for majority.
Secondly on the name,how about YOUNGO-Gender-Climate Google group.
I strongly encourage we get more support from male/men since  our past experience has been minimal participation by men.
Maybe this will be realized once we  have defined our scope,role and focus.
These are my suggestions.
Kind Regards,
Miriam

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To: Bernadette Fischler <berna...@wagggsworld.org>
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2011/2/14 jean paul brice affana <jeanpau...@yahoo.fr>

Hi Ethan and all, Great to see how discussions are moving positively with Shelly from the PAI. Regarding the next steps it's very important that we follow those discussions and don't miss this opportunity. Ethan have you been contacted by someone from the Capacity-building WG yet ? The WG should work to identify YOUNGO priorities on this opportunity so that the offer meet the lack of training. The attached file you sent can really help here as it provide more useful information. Is Esther and Bernadette accepted to lead respectively the global south aspect as well as the gender aspect you raised in your e-mail ? If not yet perhaps you could remind to them that. I also think Kimberley could work closely with Bernadette on the gender aspect as they both manifested their interest. I'm not sure the gender group proposed in a previous e-mail is already created. Any idea here ? One more time, good work Ethan and let's make it happen ! Jean Paul Brice Affana   Focal Point to the UNFCCC Secretariat

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Hi everyone,

It's exciting to see this discussion happen so promptly after COP16... leaving us lots of time to prepare in advance for COP17! :)
I think PAI will add a lot of value to the work we are doing with young people.

From Advocates for Youth's position, we are currently working on the development of a Youth Advisory Board (and if you are interested, please let me know!) where young people from across the globe will be our consultants on a new media strategy to message SRHR as a part of the climate change mitigation/adaptation strategy. We're currently testing Facebook ads with various messages to strategize with messages that resonate with youth. We would like this campaign to help leverage our advocacy efforts at the COP17 meeting in Durban and potentially beyond for the 2012 Summit in Rio.

In addition to the e-consultation report that Kimberley sent out, you can also see our fact sheet that Advocates developed on SRHR among women and youth in the context of climate change: http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/storage/advfy/documents/srhr_in_context_of_climate_change.pdf

I think gender and youth issues is the best way to make the SRHR-climate change connections, but I've learned from our work in the previous COP meetings that we really need to think of specific messaging to reach out to young men. The gender piece seems to discourage men that aren't familiar with our work, but I think we can work on that as we move forward.

I've added Nickie Imanguli, my colleague at Advocates, whom will be coordinating the Youth Advisory Board. Nickie, I can give you a more comprehensive update at the office if you'd like.

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Mimi

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>2011/2/14 jean paul brice affana <jeanpau...@yahoo.fr>
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>Great to see how discussions are moving positively with Shelly from the PAI.
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>Regarding the next steps it's very important that we follow those discussions
>and don't miss this opportunity. Ethan have you been contacted by someone from
>the Capacity-building WG yet ? The WG should work to identify YOUNGO
>priorities on this opportunity so that the offer meet the lack of training.
>The attached file you sent can really help here as it provide more useful
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>Is Esther and Bernadette accepted to lead respectively the global south aspect
>as well as the gender aspect you raised in your e-mail ? If not yet perhaps
>you could remind to them that. I also think Kimberley could work closely with
>Bernadette on the gender aspect as they both manifested their interest. I'm
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>One more time, good work Ethan and let's make it happen !
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[Bernadette Fischler]

Hi All,

I think the initial reaction is really encouraging and very exciting.

I would suggest that we first of all establish the new email group (Kimberley is on it) and get us all signed up and then let's get started with the discussion about what/who/how/when/why straight away. Several projects are already in the pot and a some very important points have been made on how to approach and message the gender and SRHR at COPs and it would be important to have these conversations so we have clarity and transparency.

Looking forward to this exciting endavour!

Best wishes,
Bernadette

Hi everyone,

Thanks,
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