<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The UNCDD COP16 wil be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in December 2024. Several people and organisations involved in the IYRP2026 alliance are planning to be there and are organising or contributing to various side events. At the meeting yesterday of the IYRP Global Coordination Group, we decided that Fiona Flintan (ILRI) will be the focal person for the IYRP2026 alliance at COP16. She will coordinate activities to draw attention to the IYRP2026, working closely with a communications consultant, and will collect news about such activities to share more widely through social media, the IYRP2026 mailing list and our website. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Fiona is trying to get an overview of who from the IYRP2026 alliance is planning to attend COP16 and what you plan to do there. She is setting up a WhatsApp group to facilitate communication between those of you who will be attending, and would like to know whether you want to be in the WhatsApp group. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To get this overview and your WhatsApp numbers, she has set up a GoogleDoc spreadsheet: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Z0SOUkHB260GlFWmArNef6CWqkH1jx7m5LBXCL-0Yz4/edit?gid=0#gid=0" class=""><b class=""><i class="">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Z0SOUkHB260GlFWmArNef6CWqkH1jx7m5LBXCL-0Yz4/edit?gid=0#gid=0</i></b></a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you go to this link, you can ask Fiona to grant you access so that you can put your information into the spreadsheet.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font color="#ff2600" class=""><b class=""><i class="">Attn: IYRP Working Group (WG) and Regional IYRP Support Group (RISG) coordinators</i></b> </font></div><div class="">Because not all the members in the WGs and RISGs are in this IYRP International Support Group mailing list, will you please share this mail with your group members so that we can be sure to reach everyone who might be going to Riyadh?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The COP16 provides an excellent opportunity to promote the interests of the IYRP2026, so please join forces with Fiona and each other at this event!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Ann</div><div class=""> </div><div class=""><div class="">
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color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="1" class=""><i class="">Dr Ann Waters-Bayer</i></font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="1" class=""><i class="">Agrecol Association for AgriCulture & Ecology</i></font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="1" class=""><i class="">German Institute for Tropical & Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL) Research Fellow</i></font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="1" class=""><i class="">Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP) Core Group</i></font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="1" class=""><i class="">International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists (IYRP2026) Global Secretariat</i></font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="1" class=""><i class="">E: <a href="mailto:waters-bayer@web.de" class="">waters-bayer@web.de</a> / <a href="mailto:waters-bayer@agrecol.de" class="">waters-bayer@agrecol.de</a> / <a href="mailto:a.waters-bayer@ditsl.org" class="">a.waters-bayer@ditsl.org</a></i></font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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