[Risgchairs] Encourage your RISG members to join the overarching IYRP WGs on Pastoralist Youth and on Pastoralism & Gender

[Jacob Mpapaiyie]

Dear Ann,
Thank you so much for this call of the youth working group to the other
IYRP WGs.
It's our humble request that we could have these youths together and not
leave any pastoralist youth behind.
As you have said, we being one of the IYRP Working Groups (WGs) focusing on
pastoralist youth, are planning a series of events that will see us to and
post 2026 as we leverage the skills, strengths and dynamics of being a
youth leader especially on this subject matter.
We will be happy to welcome these youths to join the Youth Working group on
Pastoralism.

Thank you once again
best
Lekaitogo Jacob

On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 9:33 PM Ann Waters-Bayer <waters-bayer at web.de> wrote:

> Dear RISG co-chairs,
>
> Sorry that I could not join your recent meeting with Igshaan. There is a
> point that I would like to raise with all of you.
>
> One of the IYRP Working Groups (WGs) focuses on pastoralist youth. This WG
> includes people who define themselves as”pastoralist youth” (from a
> pastoralist background and under 35 years of age) as well as also older
> people who are doing research on pastoralist youth.
>
> If there are members of your RISGs who are either pastoralist youth or are
> doing research on pastoralist youth, please encourage them to contact the
> co-coordinators of the WG - Jacob Lekaitogo Mpapaiyie (
> jacobmpapaiyie1994 at gmail.com) and Elena Chen (elenachen.02 at outlook.com).
> They will then include you in the WG mailing list and invite you to the
> next online meeting of their WG.
>
> The WG of Pastoralist Youth has some interesting plans, including making
> short videos of young pastoralists playing soccer, to share via social
> media in order to reach a wide public during the World Cup 2026. Many young
> pastoralists may be keen to take part in this activity plus others, perhaps
> even a global gathering of pastoralist youth in 2025 or 2026.
>
> Particularly young pastoralist women may be interested in the global
> gathering of pastoralist women being planned for late 2025. In that case,
> they should join the WG on Pastoralism & Gender (contact Nitya Ghotge:
> nityaowc19 at gmail.com), which is working out modalities to select
> participants representing pastoralist women in different regions.
>
> Cheers,
> Ann
>
> *Dr Ann Waters-Bayer*
> *Agrecol Association for AgriCulture & Ecology*
> *German Institute for Tropical & Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL) Research
> Fellow*
> *Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP)
> Core Group*
> *International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists (IYRP2026) Global
> Secretariat*
> *E: waters-bayer at web.de <waters-bayer at web.de> / waters-bayer at agrecol.de
> <waters-bayer at agrecol.de> / a.waters-bayer at ditsl.org
> <a.waters-bayer at ditsl.org>*
> *W: www.agrecol.de <http://www.agrecol.de> / www.ditsl.org
> <http://www.ditsl.org> / www.celep.info <http://www.celep.info>
> /www.iyrp.info <http://www.iyrp.info>*
>
> On 5 Sep 2024, at 23:16 PM, Igshaan Samuels <SamuelsI at arc.agric.za> wrote:
>
> Dear RISG chairs
>
> You are cordially invited to a RISG chairs meeting where we will receive
> updates from the regions through an 8-10 min feedback/presentation. You are
> also requested to send me a narrative word document so that I can include
> it in the global update to be sent to the broader IYRP community. Thank You
> Vivek for doing so already on behalf of RSIG-SA.
>
> I encourage at least one chair from each region to be present to give the
> report back.
>
> I will send a complete agenda and minutes of the last RISG meeting in due
> course.
>
> Kind regards
> Igshaan
>
>
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