[IYRPsupportgroup] IYRP Support Group Conference Call Minutes (February 2019)

[Tungaa SG]

Dear Barbara,

Many thanks for sharing the Feb 7 Meeting minutes, and other related
documents. As these were exactly, what MOFALI officers copied here were
asking me, I had a liberty to share these documents with some
representatives of national stakeholders including MOFALI and MET who are
able to understand documents, and also suggested to join today's conference
call on UNEA Ministerial breakfast. Unfortunately, for most of the
colleagues, it was short notice so only two colleagues from Green Gold were
able to join the Zoom meeting hosted by Fiona. Please kindly note that I
copied this message to these Mongolian colleagues with whom I shared the
attached documents to be more inclusive.
Coming back to the Action items in the Notes, I think, we definitely need
to update TOR of ISG (even the year aiming for IYRP is 2020 in the current
TOR), add some milestones/steps taken so far, and as Ann was suggesting a
more efficient structural change, and possibly rotations among members in
to equally distribute the load since we have now more members. In
this regard, I suggest having not one Taskforce group but several including
most members in different areas so that we can work simultaneously on
different objectives of ISG and the Chair to coordinate among them.
As colleagues here were asking who are the ISG, such updated TOR will help
to introduce the group to others. As suggested, Mongolia can take the lead
in IYRP resolution Taskforce but with the inclusion of 1-2 more experienced
members as a resource person since the process is very new to us. We
realize, even among us national, stakeholders, we have to set much more
organized communications between National Support Group, National Steering
Committee, and ISG, and reach consensus on differing roles between NSG and
NSC.
In addition to the currently listed 5 Action points, maybe we should add
Action 6 to facilitate dialogue between MOFALI, MET, MFA to prepare
Mongolia's participation/leadership in the International Steering Committee
or global promotion of IYRP. Or it can be more of National SG's task too
once established.

With best regards,

Tungaa

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 12:52 AM Hutchinson, Barbara S - (bhutchin) <
BarbaraH at cals.arizona.edu> wrote:

> Dear IYRP Support Group Members:
>
>
>
> With many thanks to Maryam and Ann for their clarifications, attached are
> the minutes from the conference call held last week.  It was a productive
> and most useful discussion that resulted in the Action items listed below.
> There have been a number of follow-up discussions since the call that will
> be reported on soon as well.
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>
>
> Also attached are the following documents for your review and comment:
> (1) Terms of Reference (for the Support Group – previously Steering
> Committee); (2) Example committee structures for previous international
> years; and (3) an updated IYRP Support Group member list (please send
> corrections directly to me rather than the listserv as this will help limit
> the amount of email traffic – thank you!)
>
>
>
> Thank you all for your support of this important effort.
>
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Barbara
>
>
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>    - *ACTION 1*: *Secretariat* *will send out the 2-page summary of other
>    international years and their structures and post on website*
>    - *ACTION 2: **ISG members are requested to consider revisions to the
>    TOR of the ISG and any other suggestions on structure and leadership
>    rotation and submit by email. *
>    - *ACTION 3:**  Hijaba will discuss and confirm to hold a joint
>    conference call between the IYRP Support Group and the Mongolian National
>    Support Group after it is officially formed.*
>    - *ACTION 4:*  *Mongolia’s proposed resolution and background
>    documentation to be submitted to COAG by August 2019. ISG to provide all
>    support as needed. *
>    - *ACTION 5:** Maryam will report back to the smaller group working on
>    UNEA (Fiona, Jon, Kathrine, Ernest, Hijaba, Tungaa, Dana) and request that
>    they finalize the concept note and other preparations. The concept note
>    will then be shared with the ISG so that members can contact country
>    representatives to encourage them to participate at the Breakfast. *
>
>
>
>
>
> Barbara Hutchinson, PhD
>
> Communications Manager
>
> The Rangelands Partnership & NRULPC
>
> School of Natural Resources & the Environment
>
> College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
>
> University of Arizona
>
> Tucson, Arizona USA 85721
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