<div dir="ltr">Dear Ann,<div>Thank you so much for this call of the youth working group to the other IYRP WGs. <br>It's our humble request that we could have these youths together and not leave any pastoralist youth behind. </div><div>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. </div><div>We will be happy to welcome these youths to join the Youth Working group on Pastoralism.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you once again</div><div>best </div><div>Lekaitogo Jacob</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 9:33 PM Ann Waters-Bayer <<a href="mailto:waters-bayer@web.de">waters-bayer@web.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Dear RISG co-chairs,<div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>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" target="_blank">jacobmpapaiyie1994@gmail.com</a>) and Elena Chen (<a href="mailto:elenachen.02@outlook.com" target="_blank">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><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>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" target="_blank">nityaowc19@gmail.com</a>), which is working out modalities to select participants representing pastoralist women in different regions. </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Ann</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial"><font size="1"><i>Dr Ann Waters-Bayer</i></font></span></div><div><div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div dir="auto" style="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;text-decoration:none"><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div style="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;text-decoration:none"><font size="1"><i>Agrecol Association for AgriCulture & Ecology</i></font></div><div style="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;text-decoration:none"><font size="1"><i>German Institute for Tropical & Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL) Research Fellow</i></font></div><div style="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;text-decoration:none"><font size="1"><i>Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP) Core Group</i></font></div><div style="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;text-decoration:none"><font size="1"><i>International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists (IYRP2026) Global Secretariat</i></font></div><div style="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;text-decoration:none"><font size="1"><i>E: <a href="mailto:waters-bayer@web.de" target="_blank">waters-bayer@web.de</a> / <a href="mailto:waters-bayer@agrecol.de" target="_blank">waters-bayer@agrecol.de</a> / <a href="mailto:a.waters-bayer@ditsl.org" target="_blank">a.waters-bayer@ditsl.org</a></i></font></div><div style="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;text-decoration:none"><font size="1"><i>W: <a href="http://www.agrecol.de" target="_blank">www.agrecol.de</a> / <a href="http://www.ditsl.org" target="_blank">www.ditsl.org</a> / <a href="http://www.celep.info" target="_blank">www.celep.info</a> /<a href="http://www.iyrp.info" target="_blank">www.iyrp.info</a></i></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 5 Sep 2024, at 23:16 PM, Igshaan Samuels <<a href="mailto:SamuelsI@arc.agric.za" target="_blank">SamuelsI@arc.agric.za</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="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;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Dear RISG chairs<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">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. <u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">I encourage at least one chair from each region to be present to give the report back.<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">I will send a complete agenda and minutes of the last RISG meeting in due course.<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Kind regards<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Igshaan</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div>