RE: Re: Youth Climate Movement and Research Opportunities
Bernadette Fischler
Hi Jean Paul and all,
This is really an excited opportunity and as I said earlier I am very happy to act as intermediary with PAI on this proposed project. I would very much assume that Kimberley would indeed be interested to work on this as well so let's coordinate and move forward.
May I suggest a coordination call between Ethan, Esther, Kimberley, me and anybody else who would be interested (do we have somebody who can speak on behalf of capacity building)? How is your availability tomorrow from 10am to 4pm GMT, on Thursday from 1pm to 5pm GMT or next Monday from 1pm to 10pm GMT?
If a call isn't useful we might want to start an email conversation instead. I feel that it is important to get back to Shelly from PAI soon and with a joint suggestion for cooperation rather than starting individual conversation threads.
Let me know what you think!
Best wishes,
Bernadette
PS: I have copied the girls and young women group in this email - please read the messages below if you are new to this conversation to see what it is all about :-)
Bernadette Fischler
Advocacy Coordinator
From: jean paul brice affana
[mailto:jeanpau...@yahoo.fr]
Sent: 14 February 2011 18:51
To: Ethan Case
Cc: Esther Agbarakwe;
youthclimatepolic...@googlegroups.com; Bernadette Fischler;
Kimberley D.C. Schroder; Kyle Gracey; marcie...@sustainus.org;
bottom...@googlegroups.com; Katharine Chadwick
Subject: Re: Re: Youth Climate Movement and Research Opportunities
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Hi Ethan and all,
Hey all. 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.
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
From: bottom...@googlegroups.com
[mailto:bottom...@googlegroups.com]
On Behalf Of Kimberley D.C. Schroder
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
2011/1/31 Ethan Case <etha...@gmail.com> Hey Kimberley.
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Bernadette Fischler
Hi all,
One more thing - I just realized that there we are confusing the capacity building groups in YOUNGO - ooops:
The email for the group who does capacity building for YOUNGOs is
youngos-cap...@googlegroups.com
To add to the confusion there is another newly formed group - a policy group - who looks at the topic of capacity building in the text and we have been copying them:
youthclimatepolic...@googlegroups.com
I have changed it now for this email so maybe we get somebody on board soon ;-)
Best,
Bernadette
Bernadette Fischler
Advocacy Coordinator
Kimberley D.C. Schroder
Bernadette Fischler
Hi All,
I would like to throw Monday, 5pm, 6pm or 7pm GMT as suggestions in the pot. Does somebody want to maybe start a doodle for the appointment? Ethan, I can understand that you would like to hand over this project but I was hoping you could join us for this first call, please, as you were the one who spoke with Shelly about the potential project.
What does others think?
Best,
Bernadette
Bernadette Fischler
Hi Ethan,
I agree – somebody should get back to Shelly saying ‘we are coordination ourselves and get back to you soon’. Kimberley would you like to do that since you met Shelly already, I believe?
Thanks,
Bernadette
PS: have we already a time and date for our call?
From: bottom...@googlegroups.com [mailto:bottom...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ethan Case
Sent: 16 February 2011 23:41
To: Bernadette Fischler
Cc: youthclimatepolicy...@googlegroups.com;
jean paul brice affana; Esther Agbarakwe; Kyle Gracey;
marcie...@sustainus.org; bottom...@googlegroups.com;
youngos-cap...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [BL team] Re: Re: Youth
Climate Movement and Research Opportunities
Hello all.
I will definitely be on the call and on the calls to come.
I definitely want to stay actively involved in this effort, but I hope to ease
out of the picture so that people currently working on these issues can take
more of a lead role in directly communicating with PAI. My reasoning is that
while I can reach out and help set up partnerships, I am largely ignorant about
SRHR/climate change issues, though I'd love to learn more (and hopefully be
involved in an action or COY training at the next COP!). I think moving forward
that it is important to have people more knowledgeable about these issues more
deeply engaged. So, not going anywhere, just hoping to create space for you
awesome people replying with ideas and encouragement to get more involved.
I agree that we should try to collect all the thoughts into a single voice to
communicate to Shelly, but I also see some value in staying in regular contact
and/or sending new people to talk to her individually. It is going to take at
least a week or two to organize our voice, and because PAI is still in an exploratory phase of feeling out
whether or not they want to expand their youth program (Shelly's
emphasis), a long time of non-communication could
signify a lack of interest to PAI. I think soon (tomorrow or the next day) we
should send a email across to Shelly and say "look, this prospect of a
partnership has gotten a lot of people excited, and we are organizing ourselves
right now...what specific information do you need to make this go
forward?" Thoughts?
As you all know, YOUNGO as a (non)organization little awkward to communicate
concisely, but that's exactly what we need to do if we want partnerships like
this to happen. So, we might want to prepare documents or links that more
easily introduce people to YOUNGO and youth involvement in the UNFCCC. One
thing we could do is improve/update the existing website and have little
descriptions of the WGs and contact information for people in specific working
groups.
And, last one, anyone hear from someone in the capacity building wg yet?
Good day to you,
Ethan