[Risgchairs] May 6th strategy meeting on IYRP global communications campaign for 2026

[Ken Otieno]

Dear Maryam,

Thank you for sharing this important email towards operationalising the IYRP messages. In the region, we have aligned them with other processes, which would be great to share.

Ken

Peter K. Otieno
Executive Director RECONCILE,
Co-Facilitator Rangelands and Pastoralists Platform Africa
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Subject: [Risgchairs] May 6th strategy meeting on IYRP global communications campaign for 2026

Dear All

We would like to invite you to a virtual meeting on 6th May at 10 am GMT+4 (SAST 4pm) to discuss the general contours of the global IYRP communications campaign that we will launch 1st january 2026.

We have 8 months left to get it sorted. The meeting will be chaired by Igshaan and the agenda is as follows:

1. Objectives and overall strategy : What would the global campaign look like? What audiences are we trying to reach?  How best can the key messages of the 12 global themes be disseminated on a monthly basis? What additional activities are the thematic Worklng Groups developing?  How to bring the entire ISG membership of 370+ institutions into this process? What materials do we have and what might still be missing?

2.  Global to local  and back again: How to link the global campaign with the regional and local campaigns? What are the RISGs planning and how to coordinate between the global campaign and regional campaigns?

3. Linking with other global campaigns: Coordination between IYRP and FAO communication plans for IYRP.  Are there other entities that we know of that plan to do a global campaign. How do we reinforce each other?

4.  Operational matters:
a) establishing a global campaign team, leads/chairs
b) budget required - rough estimate for now; in-kind contributions vs centralized budget
c) working backwards from 1st January 2026, what are the deadlines we need to meet?

5. AOB - please feel free to add other items for discussion.

Igshaan will soon send out a link for the virtual meeting.

Looking forward to our discussions
*...*...*...*
Dr. Maryam Niamir-Fuller


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