All-in+Skype+chat+28+april+2016

Meeting summary and next steps (short version)

Agenda points (for the full summary of the meeting [|see here])
 * 1) Participants
 * 2) Summary of Working Groups and actions needed
 * 3) Next steps

Important Note:
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 * For a full version of this report including all chat comments and discussions, [|see here].
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1. Participants
We had 38 people from 20 countries, ranging in age from 18 to 78. It was a real pleasure to have this IPS wide call. The number of you who signed up on Skype was incredible and we are incredibly energized by your inspiration. Thank you!

2. Summary of Working Groups and actions needed
Working Group 1: Youth Engagement at the 2016 World Conservation Congress. Goal: Coordinate youth activities at the congress and organize 3 events with IPS partners. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">IPS co-leaders: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mariasole Bianco <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Melanie Zurba <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Florent Kaiser

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Next steps:

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. Event: High-Level Event “Together for nature, creating the future we want” (Mariasole Bianco) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">○ Send your feedback by 15 May and suggest internationally recognized speakers here: []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 2. Event: Intergenerational Partnerships at IUCN: Taking Stock & Moving Forward (Melanie Zurba and Biozid Jessorey) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">○ Identify a specific format and venue for the event, with potential speakers and facilitators that help to draw out our next steps <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">○ Develop a communication strategy for advertising this and all YIP events at the Congress.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. Event: Advancing conservation through intergenerational collaboration (Florent Kaiser and Melanie Zurba) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">○ Call for volunteers and form event working group (2-3 volunteers needed) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">○ Develop concept and start feedback process (by 12 June) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">○ Open video application process (1 June to 20 June) and select 5 presenters (by 1 July) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">○ Fundraising for grants to get presenters to the event (~ USD 10,000) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">○ Select Dragon’s Den jury

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Members of WG1 (please join by sending an email to Melanie Zurba <melzurba@gmail.com> and specify which partnership you would like to get involved in):


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rama Kant || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Parfait T Teto || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lucha Celestine || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Naseem Sultani || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eva Liliana || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Elaine Hsiao ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Alice C Hughes || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">June Chee || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Katalin Czippan || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dave Raney || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Md Biozid J. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tomas ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Florent Kaiser || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mariasole ||  ||   ||   ||   ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Working Group 2: External Communication and Alliance Building

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Goal: Build a broad alliance leading to and beyond Congress. We have three specific initiatives we would like our IPS partners to support.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">IPS Co-leaders of WG2: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Melanie Zurba <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Elaine Hsiao <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Catie Burlando

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Next steps: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">○ We are looking for support in securing additional work sites, accommodations, meals, transport, musicians and artists, etc. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">○ We are also looking for support in fundraising and resourcing <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">○ And of course, we invite everyone to stay and participate for some or all of it! Dates: Sept 12-22nd, 2016 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">○ Currently developing the programme scope, communication material, and programming for the World Conservation Congress (WCC) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">○ Looking for YP and other who are ready to roll up their sleeves to aid in executing NFA’s 2016 WCC programme and the future NFA programme component within the IUCN’s 2017-2020 Programme.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Connect to the youth movement in Hawai’i (June Chee)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Support the development of the post-Congress “Earth Works, Arts and Music Tour” (Elaine Hsiao)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Connect to #Natureforall movement – (Tomasz Wiercioch and Karen Keenleyside)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Members of WG2 (please join by writing to Catie Burlando <catie.burlando@gmail.com>, and specify which partnership you would like to get involved in):


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sabina Adhikari || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sanjeev P. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lucha Celestine || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Radhika M ||  ||   ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Working Group 3: Internal Communication and Knowledge Management

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Goal: This WG will focus primarily on keeping the IPS on track, manage week-to-week operations and work very closely with WG 1 and WG 2.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">IPS Co-leaders of WG3: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Catie Burlando <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Shalini Dhyani

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Next steps:
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Volunteer to join the WG group
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Supporting IPS regular Skype calls and follow-up meeting notes;
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Updating the IPS Wikispace and the Facebook page(s);
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Writing newsletter pieces - for the Commissions and then sharing them across all Commissions.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Members of WG3 (please join by writing to Shalini Dyhani <shalini3006@gmail.com>).
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Berna Fo || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Shalini Misra || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sanjeev P. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Radhika M. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dominic Stucker ||  ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Working Group 4: Strategy for Youth Engagement and Intergenerational Partnership, 2014-2018 (IPS Strategy) and Empowerment

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Goal: Looks up to and beyond the Congress, and seeks to strengthen the Task Force in the next program period and work on the Youth Engagement strategy and IPS Strategy.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">IPS Co-leaders of WG4: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grace Mwaura <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rebecca Koss <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mariasole Bianco

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Next steps: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">○ Finalize the document by 20 May here: [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">○ Plan its delivery at the Congress (it could be unveiled during the IPS Task Force event)
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Support the finalization of the “Leadership training and capacity building program”
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> i. Help us brainstorm a short and snappy title;
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> ii. Help us develop the concept
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> iii. Brainstorm ideas for funding
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> iv. Understand how this becomes a clear legacy for/from the Congress
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Seek support of Commissions to appoint YP, IUCN to designate an IPS liaison in their offices, and think about a long term funding and governance structure.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Contribute to council's ongoing discussions about the future of the Task Force and its purpose within the Union, as well as YP representation in Council.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Requires work before Congress but will especially builds out of the IPS Action Planning event at Congress to revise the Strategy, identify objectives & measureable outcomes.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Members of WG4 (please join by writing to Grace Mwaura <mwauragrace0@gmail.com>)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rama Kant || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Parfait T Teto || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lucha Celestine || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Md Biozid J. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Florent K || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Elaine Hsiao ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Alice C Hughes || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Edgar || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sabina Ad. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dave Raney || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sanjeev P || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grace M. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sheikh A. Edrisi || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Maggie Roth || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Melanie Zurba || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dominic Stucker || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mariasole Bianco ||  ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. Summary of Decisions
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All this information will be posted on the IPS Wikispace so that you know who is in each WG and what the key tasks are.


 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. Florent: Write up full and summary versions of notes - DONE
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. WG Leads: Update Working Group members on the Wikispace
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. Eva Liliana (Spanish), Houehounha Dodé (French): Translate these summary notes into French and Spanish, and circulate
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. Working Groups: communicate via email and set up Skype call(s) throughout May and June to move their work forward
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. All (organized by WG3): Hold next ‘All-in’ IPS Task Force meeting in July for Working Groups updates and next steps toward the WCC

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For a full version of this report including all chat comments and discussions, [|see here].

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