<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear RISG co-chairs,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 (<a href="mailto:jacobmpapaiyie1994@gmail.com" class="">jacobmpapaiyie1994@gmail.com</a>) and Elena Chen (<a href="mailto:elenachen.02@outlook.com" class="">elenachen.02@outlook.com</a>). They will then include you in the WG mailing list and invite you to the next online meeting of their WG.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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: <a href="mailto:nityaowc19@gmail.com" class="">nityaowc19@gmail.com</a>), which is working out modalities to select participants representing pastoralist women in different regions. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Ann</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" class=""><font size="1" class=""><i class="">Dr Ann Waters-Bayer</i></font></span></div><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; 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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 5 Sep 2024, at 23:16 PM, Igshaan Samuels <<a href="mailto:SamuelsI@arc.agric.za" class="">SamuelsI@arc.agric.za</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; 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;"><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">Dear RISG chairs<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">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. <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">I encourage at least one chair from each region to be present to give the report back.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">I will send a complete agenda and minutes of the last RISG meeting in due course.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">Kind regards<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">Igshaan</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>