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NEXT MEETING: WEDNESDAY 11th of JUNE 2014 11am EDT

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

Either: 1. Join online using your microphone and speakers (VoIP) - a headset is recommended:
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Facilitator: Nhattan or Sofia ?
Note taker: Hannah Smith
Attending: Hannah Smith (hannahs@restlessdevelopment.org) Lloyd Russell-Moyle (lloyd@youthforum.org)
Apologies: 

AGENDA:

0. Introduction:

• Who is participating today? Add your name and email address to the above list!
• Review recommendations from last meeting's agenda point 16 "Feedback on this call"
• Review action points from last meeting - anything to carry forward?
  
  

1. Urgent actions items / issues emerging


2. Update from the Election Committee:

• Do we approach active members and ask them to apply?
• OP form launched.
  
  

3. Interim Measures (saba):

4. Preparations for HLPF (Chris):
-Side events:
-Who will be there?
-Coordination?
-Focal point review?
- Speaker priorities

5. Focal Point updates (please put below):

• SIDS Taskforce
  • Caribbean (SIDS) Region 
    • Focal Point: Alian
    • Outreach - As part of the Caribbean team, Gina & I have been reaching out to the youth organisations around the region through e-mail to invite them to be apart of MGCY;
    • Media - I have been making contact with various media houses, initially in Barbados and will expand to other countries shortly, to have more youth involved with article writing.  This is to have different youth groups who wouldn't normally be able to have an opportunity to speak on some issues that chance to do so for everyone to see;
    • Partnerships - Working on forming partnerships with various organisations so as to facilitate events surrounding the youth being more visible within the community, e.g. SIDS Youth Network, Global Shapers, CYEP and more to come;
  • AIMS (SIDS) Region 
    • Focal Point: Krishnee
    • 1. Outreach - I have been encouraging young people to be part of the MGCY. 
    • 2. Media - I have written in local and online print about issues on sustainable development, youth empowerment and involvement. 
    • 3. Network - As part of the Global Shapers community, the Young Leaders' Debate alumni network, 'A World at School' campaign, and other youth organisations, I have been disseminating information about how the latter can become engaged in the activities of the MCGY. 
      
      
• Communications and Outreach WG 
  • Focal Point: Ji-Sung
  • What has been done:
    • created an overview on what has to be done to reorganize the working group
      • Transitioning to the Google Apps platform
      • Development of a better organized email system
      • Development of better internal communications system (e.x intranet)
      • Relocation of website to independent server
    • assigned tasks specific people in order to work towards these goals
  • Challenges
    • developing such a system requires large amounts of work
    • requires funding for website hosting
  • Support needed
    • Guidance on how to acquire a sever under organizational registration
    • protocols on funding aquisitions
      
      
• Renewal Working Group (Hannah)
  • Focal Point: Hannah
  • Update: Scheduling our next call for this week, we'll be working on: 
    • Developing an MGCY participation guide
    • Updating the MGCY processes and procedures document
  • Get involved: Contact hannahs@restlessdevelopment.org if you'd like to participate in the working group
    
    

6. Updates on preparations for next OWGs (focal points & Sofia)

•   OWG13 (14-18th July): 
  • Focal Point: Lloyd
  • This is the final OWG...do we want to do something special? I think an action of some sort would be great - send these guys home with a strong message from children and youth for the impending intergovernmental negotiations...
  • Youth Blasts
  • Lobby points
  • Other?
  • Who will attend  Lloyd, Sarah Gold, Mari-Claire, Oli, Saba, 
    
    
• OWG12 (16-20th June): 
  • Focal Point: Aashish
  • Who will be there? Sarah Gold, Mike Kalmus Eliasz, Aashish, Saket, oli
  • Reaction to May 27th document update?
  • Bottom lines - specifically on youth.
  • Mark-up of the Chapeau (i.e. the opening pre-amble), as that will be a clear space to highlight the need for mainstreaming youth throughout the agenda.
  • Developing messaging before the informals on June 9th (more information on informals?).  
  • Update on @ACTION: Aashish to facilitate MGCY inputs to A) The Chapeau, B) The May 27th Focus Areas Document, and C) Talking points for OWG 12.
    
    

7. DRR

• Meeting with CIVICUS about potentially accrediting MGCY members for the PrepComm and 3WCDRR. Other ECOSOC orgs? How do we decide who gets accredited? 
• Youth Blasts?
• Tam is global focal point but do we need a deputy OP and regionals?
  
  

8. ECOSOC youth Forum Update (Lloyd?)

9. Finance update:

10. AOB

• Scheduling future meetings: Please can everyone fill in the facilitation team call scheduling doodle (for the next few months): http://doodle.com/67k94dazkbkfiasq
• Setting up the next meeting: 
  • Date/time: 
  • Facilitator: 
  • Note-taker: 
    
    
    
    

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FRIDAY 23rd MAY -  MINUTES

Facilitator: Saba & lloyd
Note taker: Nhattan
Present: Hannah Smith (hannahs@restlessdevelopment.org ) Chris Bradford (chris.bradford@worldfuturecouncil.org), Nhattan Nguyen (nhattan.nguyen@outlook.com), Juan José Galeano (juan@generacionpar.org.ar)
Palash Ranjan Sanyal (palashranjansanyal@gmail.com), Tam Hoang (info@tamhoang.com), Kehkashan Basu ( kehkashanbasu@gmail.com ) Soo Ah Kwon (sakwon@illinois.edu), Hung Vo (hung@internationalyouthcouncil.com)
Apologies: 

AGENDA POINTS:

0. Introductions (& prioritise agenda points?)

1. General Updates:

• DRR: We are now the constituency for the UNISDR process and the World Conference to be held next year in Japan. You can find out more here:http://www.unisdr.org/ and http://www.wcdrr.org/ Accreditation and registration is now open. General call-out for youth participants and facilitators for upcoming Regional Platforms in all regions.
  
  

2. Elections / Selections:
Our constituency:

• Organising Partners (OP):
• Election committee formed
• Form created: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/17nzmdPs3ZdtxuLq-Cj5LaHqacBzBUXPJsvCpTXYRSHA/viewform?usp=send_form
• Lack of progress sending form....and next steps
• there is a selection committeee
• ACT: someone needs to look over the form today. Needs to be people whom they nor their organization will be running for elections. try to get form out on Sunday, and have a week or 2 for it to be open, ( there should be a selection period before elections - see the process document agreed here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s11oxgff4tQxYWSmhnlxAR6-EL2jDrJdgu4pLtxLZhc/edit ) then elections for about 2 weeks, then just in time for HLPF (very tight)
• Selection committee have all reviewed it. It’s going to be live Sunday. important Facilitation team review it.
• @Selection Committee / OPs: URGENT - Decide and announce new dates/deadlines for selection, voting, interview period, announce on Sunday 25th May.
  
  
• Speakers / Funding:
• New members needed for selection committee for speakers as we have got increasing numbers of slots but team are unresponsive
  
  
• DRR focal points and Deputy OP?
• Tam is global focal point but do we need a deputy OP and regionals?
  
  

Other Constituencies:

• UNEP Major Group 
  • (should we add DPI NGO Youth and GA Special Youth Envoy here?)Sarah Dayringer asks
    
    

3. OWG updates and next steps (Olimar / Aashish / any youth present):
http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/owg.html

•   OWG13 (14-18th July): 
  • Focal Point: Lloyd
• This is the final OWG...do we want to do something special? I think an action of some sort would be great - send these guys home with a strong message from children and youth for the impending intergovernmental negotiations...
• POC?
• Other?
• Who will attend  Lloyd, Sarah Gold, Mari-Claire, Oli
  
  
• OWG12 (16-20th June): 
  • Focal Point: Aashish (main point of contact)
• Who will be there? Sarah Gold, Mike Kalmus Eliasz, Aashish, Saket
• Preparing: I think we need to react very quickly to the May 27th document so that we are prepared to lobby governments and get our messages into the join Major Group statements. In my view, children and youth are almost completely absent from the OWG documents at this stage.  We need a clear sense of our bottom lines - specifically on youth. I also think we should do a mark-up of the Chapeau (i.e. the opening pre-amble), as that will be a clear space to highlight the need for mainstreaming youth throughout the agenda. Ideally, we should work on developing messaging before the informals on June 9th (more information on informals?).  
• @ACTION: Aashish to facilitate MGCY inputs to A) The Chapeau, B) The May 27th Focus Areas Document, and C) Talking points for OWG 12.
  
  
• OWG 11 (Ari, Stephanie or Oli):
• Focal Points: Stephanie, Ari and Oli
• Link to Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v4z4FP3nHnaMbODDfQEnLz9rFUiDKa0-MhulF6EB078/edit 
• Lessons learnt:
• The drafting process of joint statements with other MGs can be tricky at this point. We should always guarantee that there is a MGCY specific statement that adresses all FAs
• Co-Chairs mentioned that proposals for new targets should not be longer than 12 words and should be specific.
• None is interested in new SDG focus areas, everybody wants to shorten exisiting documents
• What went right?
• We consistently provided inputi into FA statements, and followed up with other MGs that had similar positions to ours.
• Ari was able to introduce herself to the Brazilian MFA and shared some of the key MGCY talking points. 
• Other?
•  We need to think through in advance how to contribute to the joint Major Group statements while still consutling the MGCY constituency online.  Whoever is in New York can support with this by forwarding links to all joint statments to the list-servs.  
• Statements made:
•  http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/9242FA8.pdf
• http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/9270majorgroups2.pdf 
• Statement for HLE: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LVvbhLo5VaifesmG1SPJ0u_i5FwYNHhg3D61QtrfwLo/edit 
  
  
• OWG 10:
  
  
• OWG 9:
  
  

4. HLPF preparations (chris)

• Focal point: Coordinated by the MGCY Governance Taskforce (Chris Bradford).
• Update on the HLPF. Assumptions and concerns for the HLPF.  
• Update on regional HLPF meetings - who attended from MGCY, any notes to share?
  • EU Meeting 28th - Chris and Lloyd will be attending. There will be a MGCY 2 minute statement, which Chris is drafting for circulation and red flags. The Statement wiill be focussing on implementation mechanisms we are calling for a hybrid of Annual Ministerial review and Universal Peridic Review.  also Mainstreaming of Youth in the HLPF, funding for diverse participation, creation of High Commissioner for Future Generations.
  • ESCAP 19-21 May in Pattaya, Thailand - Who attended? - http://uncsd.iisd.org/news/asia-pacific-forum-on-sustainable-development-holds-first-meeting/ Caveena Gautam, Rudolf Bastian, and Kim Lee Choy attended Roli Mahajan delivered the MGCY Statement and an intervention on DRR
    • http://childrenyouth.org/2014/05/20/sustdevap-mgcy-participation-in-asia-pacific-civil-society-forum-on-sustainable-development-2014/
  • ECLAC: Lima Peru, 5-6 May
  • ECA: 2-3 May in Addis
  • ESCWA 2-4 April in Aman, Jordan - youth from Yemen read the statement
• @ACTION: Hannah to put out call to the mailing list to see who attended each of the regional meetings. 
• @ACTION: Chris will be drafting a briefing note on HLPF, hopefully with other people.(Volunteer: Hung V)
• There is supposed to be coordination through Governance. John Romano now unable to facilitate that group. Would be good to have someone else to facilitate. Useful to have 2 points of contact.
• Plans for July's 2nd meeting:
• Letters sent from MGCY regarding HLPF. We have had replies from this letter from New Zealand, Indonesia and Switerland (these have been shared already)
• Briefing/position paper drafting, which Chris is drafting and sharing.
• Sign up for speaking slots at the second HLPF meeting in July - there is 1 funded place: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1SGSRjasdlgyPeAk3ECDITNxdSmoY-EtQ2HAGaT8hcJk/viewform?usp=send_form  Deadline is 27th May 
• Our priority should be Future Generations slot at the HLPF
• To clarify each session will only have one MG slot either panallist or discussant.
• Call for volunteers: Currently looking for a co-facilitator for the Gov & Participation Taskforce to prepare for the HLPF meetings
  
  

5. ECOSOC Youth Forum - "#Youth2015: Realizing the Future They Want"
Logistics

• Dates = Monday 2 June 2014, 10:00am to 6:00pm and Tuesday 3 June 2014, 10:00am to 6:00pm.
• Location = United Nations Headquarters, New York City
• More information = http://www.un.org/en/ecosoc/youth2014 
• Themes: 2 days focused on development. 
• Slightly new modalities. Agreed area would be strengthened, but not how. strengthen by setting precedence. pushing the barrier slightly more. Envoy on youth will present outcome of Crowdsourcing with some governments. Lloyd has a draft, but not to go out on mailing list, which he can send. It’s not fantastic, option to input by Monday.
• A number of us will be speaking in keynotes: Lloyd, Restless Development, 
• ACTION: Hannah include in the email to ask who will be attending ECOSOC Youth Forum
• Try to get a lot of people engaged to crowdsourcing platform to ensure youth views are well reflected. Input from broad range.

Outcome Document: 

• Day 2 of the Forum is likely to be focussed a lot on developing the contents of an Outcome Document which will be drawing together many of the Youth inputs to post-2015 so far, including the Colombo Declaration and the report of the Youth Envoy's Crowdsourcing Platform. 
• This document will be agreed by a lot of high level ministers as part of the Main ECOSOC meeting later on in June, and built in to next steps for their work in post-2015.
• The Youth Envoy's Crowdsourcing document is likely to be pretty influential, so let's make sure it represents Children & Youth's priorities for post-2015 - sign on to the 'Crowdsourcing youth in post-2015' document, get involved in Phase 4 at https://crowdsourcing.itu.int/ 
• If people want the Croudsorucing document which is planned to be presented then email lloyd@youthforum.org 

Attendance: 

• Lloyd is attending 
• Esther (Africa) will be attending helping to position DRR and CC
• Request from IFMSA to attend - Mike following up with Moa at WHA
• Restless Development will be attending - we are giving a keynote speech on post-2015, governance and accountability, and the role of young people in implementing the new development goals. If anyone has any key points you would like to see covered in the plenary speech, drop hannahs@restlessdevelopment.org an email - thanks! We are also trying to get more information on participation, agenda and outcomes - we hope to send an email update early next week with more info.
• Alian will be in attendance as a speaker in Session 1;

Registration:

• Registration and issuance of identification badges Participants that do not hold a valid UN pass must pre-register in advance with the ECOSOC Secretariat
• Only online registration forms submitted on or before Wednesday, 28 May 2014 will be taken into account for the issuance of a security pass. For registration and logistical issues: Ms. Stephanie Rudy, telephone +(1-212) 963-4846; email: rudy@un.org
• Europeans who are late can register with lloyd on the youth forum delegation (lloyd@youthforum.org) if you have ECOSOC status you can register yourselves. 

ACTIONS:
@ACTION - Hannah incorporate the call-out for attendees of HLPF and ECOSOC Youth Forum in one email early next week.
@REQUEST - Tam can we also please find out attendees at the Expert Group Meeting on Indicators related to Post-2015, 17-18 June 2014? Thanks! http://database.youthforum.org/public/event-details/event/509

6. Funding / Finance
Updates:

• Rio+Twenties had an AGM on 10th May 2014:
• The new board is comprised of:

Saba Loftus 
Lloyd Russell-Moyle 
Tam Hoang 
Aashish Khullar 
David Collste 
Christopher Dekki 
Olivier Vermeulen 
Waruguru Wanjau
Karuna Rana 
Luciano Frontelle 
Usman Mushtaq 
Michael Kalmus Eliasz 

• They all can be contacted at board@childrenyouth.org
• There was a vote to change the name of Rio+Twenties to Children and Youth International.
• It was agreed to continue the mandate legally to be the financial board of trustees for the UN Major Group of Children and Youth. 
• Members of the board will have to be active members of the MGCY for at least 2 years moving forward.
• Minutes of the meeting will be circulated in Dutch and English.
• Funding application to the EU: Grant proposal submitted to the EU in collaboration with a number of other organisations of which we applied for around €200k for the next 3 years, to cover activities. Whilst its not sure if we will end up getting the money, the process was time consuming and a huge thanks need to go to Aashish, David, Lloyd, Chris and Saba who put time in to writing parts of the bid and for the other Major Groups especailly the Women's Major Group and NGO Major Group who coordianted the efforts.
• We will find out in September. Caution about hope. But it was a good learning process.

Actions / Volunteers needed:

• A gap in training / capacity for fundraising and grant writing is once more identified. We need to brainstorm on solutions:
• @Hannah and anyone else keen (Hung Vo, Palash) - put a call out to anyone keen to run a skype ‘how-to’ session on fundraising and grantwriting
• Also look at crowdsourcing (less restrictive)
  
  

7. Communications Team (Palash):

• Server: Looking to move over to a new server - secure organisational server, not one belonging to an individual, may be able to pay a small amount
• integration of workflow into Google ecosystem
  • we have a Google account that is paid for (donated). could use thoser services a bit more… how to integrate to Google System?
  • @Hannah to help through with this.
  • Other option: someone could register us in the US for Google for Nonprofits (and fress services) - At present, Google for Nonprofits is open only to organizations based in the United States, England and Wales. Organizations based in other countries can view Google's country-specific programs for nonprofits.
  • @Nhattan check Google for NP in UK
  • @Hung can start conversation on non-profit status/registration in the US. @Soo Ah: I can help/advise if you need.
• Conference calls: In future, we could also pay for a WebEx system?

Volunteers needed: 

• Coordination: need someone to coordinate and facilitate the comms group - particularly to develop a website strategy - using tags, not too fancy. Someone with an eye for detail to do that. some volunteers in the past. we can regroup. 
• Coordinator role not developing website, but developing strategy for communications and website to look like. then have volunteers for graphic design, coding… important to have the PLAN first.
• @Palash Ranjan Sanyal (coordinate), Hung (will send out email of contact info and schedule first strategy call!), Saket, Aashish & Tam (support)

Proposals: 

• Newsletter system for non priority issues - great idea!
• Sometimes the emails on the MGCY are too much (conference participation etc)
• Propose using a blog with RSS feed for non-priority issues
• Will improve quality of participation - people won’t feel bombarded via email
• @Juan - would like to join the comms group to discuss internal communications, and think this through more
  
  

8. SIDS Taskforce (Karuna):

• http://childrenyouth.org/2014/03/25/sidsfocalpoints/
• At the moment what we are doing is outreach to various groups and youth organizations within various countries in the Caribbean
• What I will just say shortly that can possibly be placed in the minutes is that Gina & I on the Caribbean front have mainly beeing working on outreach to groups about MGCY. Additionally, I've been working on getting youth to have more say in the newspapers and/or media thus far within Barbados. Specifically coming up for World Environmental Day more article inclusion will be happening as opportunities for youth.
• Saba distributed for comments the pre-conference Youth Blast agenda for SIDS Conference
  
  

9. DRR Taskforce (Tam):
Updates: 

• Progress and outcomes of youth forums at Regional Platforms on DRR (preRPs)
• 5th African Regional Platform on DRR (13-16 May) - DONE, went well
  • 10 UNISDR youth reps over there. significant progress from the 4th regional platform.
• Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (19-21 May) - DONE
  • Roli did a DRR intervention. some work with Japan government.
  • 6th Pacific Platform for DRR (2-4 June) - funding from UNISDR for facilitators, all confirmed already. getting participants to join, happen on 31st of May.
  • Asian Ministerial happening in June. waiting for UNISDR due to civil unrest in Bangkok
• 4th Session of the RP for Americas on DRR (27-29 May) - NEED HELP: not much response. it is in Ecuador. youth willing to travel, but no funding. good youth from Peru and Brazil, but no contacts from Ecuador. important to have a youth statement. Youth statement are not usually MGCY endorsed, mostly just statement from the youth in attendance, or child-centred organisations from the Children in Changing Climate Coalition i.e. UNICEF, World Vision, Save the Children, Plan, IDS
• 6th Pacific Platform on DRM (2-4 June) - finalising, going well
• 6th Asian Ministerial Conference (22-26 June) - finalising, might be postponed due to existing civil unrest in Bangkok, UNISDR will make an announcement
• 2nd Arab Conference on DRR (14-16 Sep 2014) - planning, postponed from June
• 5th Annual Meeting of European Forum on DRR - planning, going well
  • Presented concept note to UNISDR HQ for approval
• 3rd World Conference on DRR - initial discussions, obtaining funding support
• Developing a youth blast concept for Japan, March 2015. aiming for 100-150 participants + locals., developing a Sendai Secretariat and recriting youth volunteers
• Will be recruiting regional youth focal points for DRR
• Primary focus on "children and youth" as the 5th cross-cutting issue in the Post-2015 Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA2) along with child and youth indicators.
  • We need to try to include that language i.e. “children and youth as a cross-cutting issue”
    
    

10. 10YFP on SCP Team (10YFP Focal Points)

• Priorities and Term of Reference Documents in process
• News and 10YFP Meeting during UNEA
  • First 10 YFP meeting with stakeholders
  • June 20th, Juan, David and Sarah attending
• Not everyone is involved and engaged - tips?
• How often do other teams have meetings? 
  
  

11. Renewal Committee updates (Hilary/Hannah)

• Update - OP selection process: update from current OPs on progress (see agenda point 2)
• Update - Processes and Procedures document: work in progress - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fZQEjmUYChIxYwtgD9zWjReVVz18zlPtJWiyfp2VOCg/edit
• Next steps: A) Continuing to develop the P&P document; B) developing clear governance structure (e.g. organogram); C) clarifying the 'Red Flag process' and defining our 'consensus'; D) developing an MGCY guide; E) Research activities TBC. Volunteer to join these activities by signing up at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12-acUwUQik-ITgCE3CFRI4CZVWQNiYxwaXugZTscHgM/edit 
• Proposal: Renewal Committee to work with Convergence team?
  • Nhattan is on both and will follow/liaison
    
    

12. Sri Lanka and WCY 2014
Updates / Actions / Volunteers needed:

• Convergence meeting:
• YOUNGO want to begin work on joint policy positions. We need volunteers to follow up on this
• Earlier on during the year, MGCY trying to develop policy positions on climate, but was difficult to coordinate. trying to do this through YOUNGO, or if climate change starts to work on development. rather than do this from scratch.

@ Volunteers: Saket, Nhattan, Sarah Haynes (Restless), Palash Ranjan Sanyal, Aashish

• YOUNGO weren't very interested in the institution to support youth participation at an international level / rather thought it would be too slow to be fit for purpose.
• Convergence Group will set up a mailing list for coordination on all related matter (Nhattan)
• Pre-conference training for participants:
• Request was made last minute / on the day from Aashish, David and Saba. Final team included Carlos, Jerri, Josko, Aashish, David & Saba
• Mixed feedback on how it went due to limited logistical information / knowledge
• Lessons learnt?
• 10YFP on SCP 
• Successful side event (recorded and will be on youtube soon)
• Small attendance since was actually removed from programme and we had to fight for it to be reinstated despite it being confirmed prior to WYC
• Attendees were actually interested and interactive discussion followed
• Communications:
• Roli did a great job on promoting the MGCY via social media
• Awareness was raised
• Open meeting for new members
• Meeting had over 40 participants
• Good discussions were held on the importance of not relying on the World Conference as the only/best mechanism of input on Sustainable Development.
• Questions and answers were taken on the outreach of the MGCY, the role at the UN as well as areas where it could improve.
• There were some heated exchanges on the comparison of the WCY, the MGCYs role at the UN which could have been channeled in a better way and relevant parties have apologised for the anger and agreed to ensure that a more measured debate takes place on these topics in the future. 
• Participants generally expressed support for the ongoing work of the MGCY and helping to strengthen it in different processes.
• Outcome Document:
  • What is our stance on Colombo Declaration / if any and will we be using it?
  • Minister of Youth will be at ECOSOC Youth Forum. some groups applauding to SG and ask him to mention it.
  • Lloyd: the Declaration is a lobbying tool for leverage, and that’s how we should use it.
• Rio+20s AGM (see section on Finance).
• Feedback process (coordinated by Anush and Hannah)
  • some delays from the Task Force, awaiting response before proceeding.
  • @Lloyd - please follow-up on email thread to enable us to proceed
    
    

13. Children Working Group:

• Actions / Volunteers needed:
• Updates:
  
  

14. Focal Points Training

• Proposal: setup training bank on the website to share resources and develop new ones etc.
• SIDS FPs requesting additional training
• Acts / Volunteers needed:
• Updates:
  
  

15. AOB?

• Circulation of Children & Youth International papers (constitution?)
• MGCY should develop a training bank, Hannah will share a Post-2015 toolkit - add to the conversation on internal comms, website etc.
• Website should be made more interactive
• Next meeting: 
  • Date = Next one in 2.5 weeks, and plan for next 3 meetings after that with doodle (Hannah will send long-term doodle arround). 
  • Facilitator = Nhattan facilitates next meeting
  • Note-taker = Hannah Smith (happy to do this if the date is ok!)
• MGCY should develop a training bank, Hannah will share a Post-2015 toolkit - add to the conversation on internal comms, website etc.
• Website should be made more interactive
  
  

16. Feedback on today’s call:

• Technical hiccups: suggest to abandon meeting words. Problem with Google Docs is that you cannot see changes as quickly, but meeting words simple has not worked this time.
• The host of the call should have a reliable internet connection (doesn’t necessarily have to be hosted by the facilitator) to ensure smooth call.
• Contact List: so anyone can refer back to a meeting
  • Also next meeting we should do a round of introductions and share their contacts
  • Proposal - add names to the top of these minutes and include email address if keen to.
• Website should be made more interactive
• If documents are being considered in the call, please be sure to circulate them for reading in advance
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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Meeting 19th February minutes:

1. Kickstarting OP selection Process:

• The MGCY Renewal Working Group will be beginning to plan and draft recommendations for the process at our next call - Wednesday 19th February 1.30pm GMT, on skype. All are welcome to join (add hannahsmith123 to your contacts)!
• We hope to complete this by the end of the month to share with the Facilitation Team for review and sign-off.
• If you have any initial thoughts or suggestions on the call today, please capture them in these notes, or you are welcome to join the WG call by connecting with Hannah on Skype on Wednesday.
  
  

2. Strategy for next 2 years

• Establishing a process to be able to answer key strategic questions:
• Key lessons from our history (MGCY Renewal Working Group aim to carry out a bit of research to capture some of this in the next few months)
• Ensuring we're fit for purpose: From CSD to post-2015
• Setting our objectives for the Post-2015 agenda (could we have a strategy session at the World Conference of Youth, which builds on the Youth Crowdsourcing recommendations?)
• Engaging in key events
• Preparing for the Inter-governmental process
  
  

3. Updates from Taskforces & Working Groups

• Global Governance and Participation - Chris
• SIDS - ??
• 10 Year Framework on Consumption-Production Patterns - ??
• Internal Renewal - Hannah
• See above points on OP selection, and the recent email that went around the MGCY mailing list with an open invitation to join.
• Children - Sofia / Chris
• Communications & Outreach - Lloyd
• Finance and Fundraising - Lloyd
  
  

4. General Housekeeping:

• Appoint someone to follow the IANYD (Mike's mandate ended...we need someone to continue his great work).
• Setting up the next meeting
  
  
  
  

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DATE: THURSDAY 16th JANUARY 14:00 GMT 

Partipate online at: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/872434533

Facilitator: Hannah
Note taker: Mari-Claire
Present:Hannah (Restless Development), Lloyd (YFJ - European Youth Forum), Amanda (Advocates for Youth),  Chris Bradford (World Future Council), Sarah Dayringer, Hilary (WAGGGS), Juan Jose Galeano (Asociación Civil Generación Par ), Mari-Claire Price (RESURJ), Nhattan Nguyen (WOSM), Rebbecca Reingold (IPPF WHR), Sarah Gold (IWHC), Ji-Sung Kim, Saba Loftus
Apologies: N/A

1. OWG7 Feedback (Lloyd) 

- Cities, Transportation, Climate Change, Disaster Risk Reduction, Sustainable Production and Consumption
- Formal int Cities, Climate Change and Sus. Productions and Consumtion
- Statements Transport 
- Updates to website- interventions there- links to social networks 
- Need summary of OWG7 finalized - and link policy papers together - Para on each day and link to interventions 
-Youth Blast, UNCCC inputs / deadline probs, tried to still incorporate inputs and feedback 
- Climate Change- CAFOD paper - why climate change must be tackled in post 2015 etc, 5 options - before OWG7 climate change could have been lost, after this OWG climate change will be target/ goal etc - the paper really helped the way Climate Change was seen 
-MGCY asked to present similar paper on youth and children, to be presented at breakfast meetings at OWG8 with govts (CAFOD paper shows examples of arguments / presentation of paper (see OWG8)
- side meetings  etc 
- MG participation format has changed (for OWG7 onwards)  - mornings start with MG specific meetings (MGCY, MGW etc mornings) then morning hearing, then day and side events, then plenary, after closing of plenary 5-6pm all MGs session- all attend meeting and share cross cutting issues, logistical updates etc 

ACTIONS:

• Sarah D will work on summary OWG7 for next week

Below is the link to the Summary. It is readyish for publishing on the website. I sent it to the ops@.. address and cc d Lloyd.  Due to lazyness, I am not sure who is on the comms team, but please forward it to or inform me of who those people are.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1acb79tjuxRMVOhfcUeJFeVdmMoq_myT6mdC_h6ArI3U/edit?usp=sharing 


2. OWG8 Planning (Saba) 
See full details for this agenda point in the OWG8 planning doc: http://meetingwords.com/owg8

• MGCY focal point: Saba (Lloyd will also be there) 
• Dates: 3rd-7th Feb 
• Themes: Oceans and seas, forests, biodiversity (2 days); Promoting equality, including social equity, gender equality and women's empowerment (1.5 days); and Conflict prevention, post-conflict peacebuilding and the promotion of durable peace, rule of law and governance (1.5 days)
• Youth Blast: 
• 2nd Feb 10am-3pm 
• SOS Child Villages, 777 UN Plaza 3rd floor
• Facebook event
• Hoping for better attendance than OWG7 and new participants (training, capacity building for those attending) 
• Speakers: Will be finalised by the MGCY selection committee
• Written submissions & talking points: MGCY called to submit 4 papers. Focal points to lead development, outreach to MGCY:
  
  

1) Input to the Co-chairs on specific targets, indicators  - MC & Sarah Dayringer bottom-lining, http://childrenyouth.org/2013/12/22/targets-and-indicators/. Short, concise, needs to be handed over before the zero draft (officially end of OWG8)
2) Brief for breakfast meetings - Hilary & Chris Bradford bottomlining. Similar structure to CAFORD Paper (joint UNMCampaign and older people's lobby) - London meeting Lloyd, Chris and Hannah?
3) Major Groups Prioirities Paper (3 pager): Sarah Gold bottomlining. Update main points on all SDGs in format requested from MGs- 3 page briefing document - format Lloyd will send 
4) 5 points per thematic area for OWG8 - Rebecca to bottomline. To develop statements and interventions Form for collection of input: Rebecca will update

 http://meetingwords.com/owg8

ACTIONS:

• Saba to email MGCY main list with overview of preparation and opportunities for OWG 8 (Youth Blast, Thematic days, speakers, 4 papers being developed, schedule for daily meetings, etc)
• Lloyd to email post-2015 working group with full details on the above 4 papers by this Friday (17th Jan)
• Lloyd to follow-up with MGCY selection committee re speakers: note that not all speakers are mentioned in the link to the OWG8 meeting pad and some SC still haven't decided yet.
• Development of 4 papers (above focal points) 
• Saba to organise an OWG8 call in coming weeks 
  
  
  
  

3. Internal Governance Review Process Update (Working Group on Internal governance and MGCY renewal) (Hannah Smith)

• Report back from the consultation

Background: 

• Conversations emerged from UNDESA
• Nov - Restless joined linking with MGCY - shared survey to prioritize recommendations strengthening work of MGCY 
• From consultation : Inclusiveness including outreach; Accountability and Transparency; More emphasis on local and regional input; Best practices participation etc plus other additional comments 
• Internal WG development of AP to tackle priority areas - Hannah facilitating - first full planning meet last week - establish series of overarching goals to work towards and actions to support MGCY 

Goal areas: 

• Fit for purpose: MGCY was designed for CSD but we are now working on global development goals - 2015 is a unique opportunity. How to ensure we are set-up for September 2015 onwards – important to follow “right” processes from the beginning, let’s create a basis now so that we are able to do good work
• Deepening participation: How to deepen broader participation, make it more meaningful for those not based in NY
• Enable a more strategic approach:  MGCY future vision, fill gaps in MGCY guide - refresh and clarify, and make the most of the World Youth Conference as an opportunity to come together and strategise within the MGCY
• Ensure a safe space for tackling more controversial issues: address “stickier” issues, how to develop common positions, dealing with what consensus means

Key Steps: 
1)   Support the upcoming OP election process (join facilitation team calls, propose timeline, process and recruitment criteria)
2)   Draft 2-3 alternative governance structure proposals, in partnership with new OPs
3)   Propose a uniform process for developing positions and interventions for future meetings
4)   Support future Strategic Plan process by leading on “stocktaking” / mapping (propose World Conference on Youth as a key milestone / potential strategy workshop with MGCY attendees)
5)   Update Processes and Procedures document, in partnership with new OPs

Hilary has designed the following strategy tree diagram to illustrate how steps build towards vision of participatory and transparent MGCY: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1VYmWg4ak9aRTJab243VC04Mlk/edit?usp=sharing 

DESA deadlines to be incorporated into WG next steps: 
March - Need to have published the process by which plan to elect OPs
March - membership criteria of MG (conversation in DESA - what is our constituency) 
(advise) July- HLPF handover to have initiated 
OPs 2 year cycle - OPs starting after HLPF - suggestion HLPF good opp to handover 

ACTIONS: 

• Hannah to reach out for new members to join the internal working group
• Hilary to convene the next working group call
• Working group to incorporate DESA deadlines in to workplan
• Working group to prioritise OP elections
  
  
  
  

4. Other Task Force & Working Group Updates

• Global Governance and Participation - Chris
• Seperate Global Governance call - Chris setting up for catch up 
• For feed in and review of documentation 
• Focusing on mechanisms on addressing youth issues at global level 
• Children - Update from Sofia / Chris
• Ivana is not a focal point for this working group (since before Rio+20...) so she shouldn't be on the website http://childrenyouth.org/about/who-we-are/
• Communications (Media & Outreach) - Lloyd
• Focal point: Lloyd (Will coordinate between team re media outreach and outreach to young people) 
• Outreach focal point: Hilary from Wagggs 
• Website Focal Point: Ji-Sung Kim 
• Website update: being updated, tagging browsing feature - front page stream of latest posts. New function- Processes - tab of tags eg post 2015, and also browsable by type 
• Social Media focal point: Saba, with support from Ji-Sung
• Social Media update: Ji Sung has been working on banners / social networking media etc. Hoping to work on more graphics for MGCY website and other publications, link in with LLoyd re website development 
• Finance and Fundraising - Lloyd
• EU Grant (for MGs to operate- not for travel or individual costs, for functioning- websites, capacity building- eg 3 pager part of grant)  
• Signed, decision on signatory for MGCY account (1 needs to be in Belgium) 
• Funds likely by March, in process will confirm when received 
• SIDS - N/A
• 10 Year Framework on Consumption-Production Patterns - N/A
  
  

ACTIONS:

• Ji-Sung to connect with Lloyd on plan for website development
• Chris to email governance working group to convene a call
  
  

5. AOB

• What's the MGCY's position on a youth goal? (MC)
• We need to agree how we would incorporate it into the options paper.
• Oli's been working on targets and indicators as the "MGCY Expert on SDGs" - include as option in options paper follow up with Oli for position on stand alone 
• Crowdsourcing proposal - Envoy on Youth: 
• MGCY rep on advisory committee - Lloyd on committee representing other, need MGCY- will update via mail - selection committee to select rep 
• Next Meeting - date, facilitation, minutes, agenda points
• Wed 12th Feb 2pm GMT
• Traditionally Note taker is facilitator for the next call...so it will be Mari-Claire????? if she can do that? I can no problem , dont want to break tradition :) 
  
  

ACTIONS: 

• Lloyd to email MGCY main list to advertise Crowdsourcing Advisory Committee role, and agree process with MGCY selection committee
• MC to convene next facilitation team call
• OPs / facilitator to circulate participation information 1 week in advance
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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DATE: Friday 06 December 20:00 CET/ 19:00GMT

• Evaluation of OWG5
• Quite a lot of confusion.  Youth speakers appointed that were not in NY and could not get to NY.  Replaced out of MGCY present at the meeting. There was not a lot of time for inputs as people were not aware of the speaking slots ahead of time. 
• Hopefully there will be more warning next time.
• Overall participants felt that given the short notice the interventions were quite successful.
• Action point: Olimar suggests the need for a 1 pager to help newcomers understand the OWG’s.  Will also help to endure that inputs come together in one place.
  
  
• OWG6
• Venue for Sunday strategy meeting to be discussed.  Chris & Mike taking the lead on this, MGCY will be kept informed via the emails lists.
• At OWG6 there is the opportunity for major groups to present in morning followed by potential interventions later in the day. 
• Currently MGCY has slots to speak on Human Rights, MOI (Means of Implementation and Global Governance.  Note meetingwords pads for input here.

 
 •    Open Working Group 6 - http://meetingwords.com/owg6
◦    Venue and plan for strategy meeting
◦    Means of Implementation (science and technology, knowledge-sharing and capacity building) - http://meetingwords.com/owg6MOI
◦    Global Partnerships - http://meetingwords.com/owg6partnerships
◦    Needs of countries in special situations. - http://meetingwords.com/owg6countries
◦    Human Rights and Right to Development - http://meetingwords.com/owg6humanrights
◦    Global Governance - http://meetingwords.com/owg6governance
◦   Currently no speaker for MOI, Lloyd will email around to inform about the three speaking slots we have requesting input and suggested speaker for MOI.

• Discussion around whether monitoring and evaluation came into MOI, suggestion that the focus is more on enhanced data availability, transfer mechanisms etc.
• Global Governance Rebecca (rreingold@ippfwhr.org ) speaking.
• Plan international want to get onboard with helping to frame MGCY governance work. Potential for a annual or biannual youth participation meeting
• Potential Governance taskforce follow-up call for clarification etc. to take place soon. 
• End Ecocide? What is happening, currently focusing their efforts on an EU petition.  
• Action point An email will go around reminding people of the meetingwords pads and need for input ahead of the strategy meeting on Sunday.
• SIDS and others? Even though no speaking slot in the relevant part of the OWG MGCY can prepare a 1 pager on each of the topics under OWG6 for the co-chairs.
• Action point Speech for MOI needs to be finalised by Sunday as takes place on Monday.
  
  
• OWG 7 & 8
• OWG 7 Jan. Potential for crossover/joint focal points with UNEP Youth on sustainable consumption and production patterns.  Further crossover with UNHABITAT and Youngo referenced.  Aashish leading on this.  
• Action point: Internal call to get young people from relevant fields who are specialists in specific areas.
• After OWGs
• After the last OWG there will be less than one month to give feedback and inputs to chairs bu march.  The chairs will prepare material from all the OWGs to go to the GA in sept. Meanwhile states will also be discussing up to Sept.  All this will be presented to the Secretary-Generatl in Sept who will then compile the so called 0 draft for November.   MGCY inputs should be backed up by evidence, studies, qualitative data so that it is not dismissed out of hand once negotiations start.
• Task Forces vs Working groups
• There is currently ongoing a review, until that review is complted and to ensure spaces for the review and for the ongoing work it is proposed the following be maintained with slight changes. 
  
  

•    TASK FORCES

• Taskforces are the groups, which work on our policy and negations they work on external issues of substance. MGCY has two: (1) Post2015 and Sustainable Development Policy; and (2) Global Governance and Participation
• SUGGESTION: Create a new TF (3) 10 Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption Production Patters 
• SUGGESTION: Create a new TF (4) SIDS: Small Islands Developing States 

◦    WORKING GROUPS

• ◦    Working groups look at internal, operational issues or special interest issues. There are currently 4 Working Groups: (1) Children; (2) Finance & Fundraising; (3) Outreach and Integration; (4) Publicity, Website & Media.
• ▪    SUGGESTION: Merge (3) Outreach and Intergration and  (4) Publicity, Website and Media and replace with (3) Media and Outreach
• ▪    SUGGESTION: Create new WG (4) Internal governance and MGCY renewal
• All suggestions were accepted on the call.
• Hilary from Wagggs to take the lead on the integrated outreach/publicity etc. as she has been writing a guide to MGCY. 

Action point  Next meeting proposed for 13th Jan 14:00 GMT.

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Meeting notes: MGCY Facilitation Team Call –  Monday 11th November 7pm GMT / 3pm EST

Facilitation Team Call
AGENDA:
Facilitator: Saba/Sarah Dayringer
Note taker: Olimar /Saba (alternative notes available at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LEHfH7q4A98qIAlGbFFcefQldUpBAe6PfRl306qU6mY/edit )
Attending: Hannah, Saba, Oli, Sarah D, Aashish, David, Chris, Wen, Mushfiq, Husni, Olimar, 
Apologies: Usman, Chris, Lloyd


1. Finance:

• Committee needs more people
• grant - no update
  
  

2. OWGs:

• OWG5 (Oli)
• Potential nomination for a speaker from the floor on Nov. 25 (Inclusive econ. growth) 
• Let us know if you are coming: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/124iU_Geg8CHH1Sqo5UOojMF22wVP0POf5KVuQ64X000/viewform 
• Intersessional (Chris)
• 
  
• 
  
• A form was sent around asking for people to indicate if they would be able to attend the OWG:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/124iU_Geg8CHH1Sqo5UOojMF22wVP0POf5KVuQ64X000/edit 
• 3 meetings with civil society? Which is on trade on finance / disability. Economic inequality/ Energy 
• Only one person put themselves forward to speak
• Aashish’s email -- perhaps send an email which expands on the speaking slots and asks for more applicants.
• Advised that the process isn’t clear and could be clearer.
• OWG6:
• Update on statements Progress
• 1st SC held 
• OWG7:
  
  

3. 10YFP on SCP Focal Points (Nhattan and Saba):

• All focal points have been contacted and have confirmed.
• UNEP have received the forms & this means they are official for 2 year term
• Over 75 applicants
• We had to ask for 1 month extension due to lack of LAC, and EE applicants.
• Africa had to be reopened due to candidates due to inaccurate information being provided by a number of finalists.
• UNEP MGCY and ECOSOC MGCY comprised selection committee
• Social media push at moment to raise awareness of focal points & introduce to constituency.
• Training to be held with all focal points including processes and procedures sharing as well as awareness of MGCY's SCP policy history. UNEP to provide more information in 2 weeks. Will be transitioning responsibility to the global focal points ASAP.
• MGCY decided to appoint Comms focal points--not officially recognised by UNEP but linked to their outreach team to collaborate.
• David (Global)
• Husni (Global  Alternate)
• Wen (Asia Pacific)
• Bibhu Santos (Asia Pacific Alternate)
• Sarah (Western Europe & Other countries)
• Olivier (Western Europe & Other countries Alternate)
• Kassim (Africa)
• Abraham (Africa Alternate)
• Juan (LAC)
• Maria (LAC Alternate)
• Aurora (Eastern Europe)
• Nikola (Eastern Europe Alternate)**
• Aidana (Eastern Europe  Alternate)
• Roli (Comms)
• Kabita (Comms)
• 
  
• 
  

4. SIDS (Karuna & saba):
Form now translated into 3 of the 4 languages of the 3 regions.

• English: http://bit.ly/SIDSFocalPoints
• French: http://bit.ly/SIDSFocalPointsFR
• Portuguese: http://bit.ly/SIDSFocalPointsPT
• Spanish: Not translated (Olimar responsible)
• Question: Deadline to be extended to end of December? If FT ok with that? Currently end of November but translations took longer than expected
• Request: Volunteers needed to write cover letter for circulation?

Names & Emails?

5:Finance for SD:

6. Update on Major Group Governance Review Process (Hannah)
-ACT completed.


6. Update on Permanent forum on youth:

s to promote full, effective, structured, and sustainable participation of young people and youth-led organizations in relevant decision making processes including in designing and implementing policies, programmes and initiatives and in the elaboration of the emerging post-2015 development agenda . . .

We had hoped that even if any mention of a permanent forum is removed, there would still be the word "mechanism" in the paragraph.  Obviously, this is not the case.  Nevertheless, this is certainly language with which we can work and I am happy to say that our intense lobbying efforts have paid off.  Also, we should pay special attention to this:

OP21 Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventieth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution, including on ways to promote effective, structured, sustainable youth participation in designing, implementing and assessing United Nations youth policies, programmes and initiatives, which should be prepared in consultation with Member States, as well as the relevant specialized agencies, funds and programmes, and regional commissions, taking into account the work done by the United Nations System; and also request the Secretariat to consult, as appropriate, with youth-led and youth-focused organizations to ensure that various youth inputs are duly shared with the General Assembly during its deliberations.

This is another paragraph that would give us the space necessary to create structures and mechanisms that allow for youth policy input.  We also fought very hard for this paragraph and it is thanks to the efforts of ICMYO organizations like my own (Pax Romana), the European Youth Forum, and others like the Brazilian mission (especially Joao) that this is even still in the language of the resolution.  Either way, the burden is now on youth activists like us to keep the pressure on as to make sure that everything we have fought for does not fall to the wayside.  If you would like to see the full resolution on youth in its latest draft form, you can access it here:
 
https://word.office.live.com/wv/WordView.aspx?FBsrc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fdownload%2Ffile_preview.php%3Fid%3D521982257897869%26time%3D1383765839%26metadata&access_token=27604815%3AAVJHy98vnSu9Bthh-1yVXaQSmYRz4ovsLpffM72nA625wQ&title=Chairs+Proposals_30+October.doc
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Meeting notes: MGCY Facilitation Team Call –  21/10/2013

Facilitator: Oli
Note taker: Hannah
Attending: Ankan (Consultant- water resources& climate science-Gov of Meghalaya), Hannah (Restless Development), Luciano (Brazilian Youth Coalition), Rebecca (IPPF), Timo (Netherlands, Choice for Youth and Sexuality), Wen, Saba, Aashish (Pax Romana)
apologies: Lloyd, Jerry, Ties, Willice, Sarah D, Sara, Chris Dekki, Joao, Ivana, Sarah, Karuna, Samora, Saskia, Dan, Dave, Nhattan, Mika, Alina, Grace, Upendo, anna, Ian, Mike E, Michael, John R., Samuel DFL, Saket
 
AGENDA POINTS
 
1.         UNGA follow-up, specifically Permanent Forum on Youth:
2.         Open Working Group
a.         Intersessional meetings
b.        5th meeting
3.         SIDS meeting 2014
4.         Istanbul conference next month
5.         Focal points for 10 year YFP production & consumption
6.         Clarification on MGCY Governance Reform / OP Election Process
7.         World We Want page moderation
8.         MGCY Finance
AOB
 
MAIN DISCUSSION
 
1. UNGA follow-up, specifically Permanent Forum on Youth:
 
·             Main contact: Chris D
·             Official delegates are lobbying in the 3rd committee to ensure that the Permanent Forum on Youth is included in the committee resolution.
·             Question: which countries are blocking? 
African group & the US, Canada and Israel group
 
ACT – Chris: to send around key lobbying doc
ACT – Hannah: send questions from Chris to Oli for clarification
 
2 A) Open Working Group, Nov 22 intersessional:
 
·             MGCY key contact: Chris Dekki
·             2 intersessional meetings planned – one in Nov, one in January
·             Not certain what will happen over the 2 days yet, but the basic principle is to encourage greater dialogue between civil society and OWG member states
·             Will be an extention of the civil society morning briefings at the regular OWG meetings – process will be similar, but nothing concretised. Process for influencing the co-chairs and secretariat.
·             Steering Committee: Particpants from all major groups sit on the committee, Chris D is the MGCY rep, and there have been 2 calls so far: 
o        1st discussed format – whether open or closed – will be open invitation, want to ensure diverse participation but very little funding for enabling participation from global south. Likely that there will be plenary sessions with the chair, and then break-out groups.
o        2nd meeting: Chris participated, do not know details yet
·             Question: 
 
ACT - Chris: once we know what the process for speakers and participation will be, please publish info on main MGCY mailing list
 
2 B) 5th Open Working Group Meeting, Nov 25-27th
 
·             Lead Contact: Chris D
·             Focal Points: Aashish – OWG 5 thematics: http://meetingwords.com/OWG5
            (Mike – OWG 6  thematics)
·             For information see: http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?menu=1665
·             Thematics for 5th meeting: International trade, finance systems, Economic growth, Infrastructure development, Energy
·             Registration for participation – via CSO net, if you have a ground pass it’s not strict, but technically you are supposed to register: http://esango.un.org/irene/index.html?page=viewContent&nr=22563&type=8&section=8
·             Difficult for international youth to attend because of visa requirements
·             Form going around soon for OWG 5 Youth Blast participation
·             John Romano will be there with Aashish, tracking, pushing for specific points
·             Don’t know how many positions available for youth to speak yet
·             OWG 6 will be v well attended, in contrast to 5 – team working on lobby points
·             Question: What is happening post-youth blast, specifically
Response: Lloyd is leading on follow-up from Youth Blast, but very swamped at the moment, if anyone is free to chip in further please say so
 
ACT – Oli: to send around latest versions of lobby points / thematic positions
ACT - ??: Send information on OWG youth blast, including online form
ACT – ??Lloyd??: Identify support person to follow-up on Youth Blast Actions
 
3. SIDS meeting 2014
 
·             Contacts: Karuna and Saba
·             Recruiting regional focal points
·             Application open until Oct 30th – looking for translation to French, Spanish and Portuguese
·             LAC region also looking for push
 
ACT: Luciano can do Portuguese translation
ACT: Karuna is doing French
ACT: Oli is doing Spanish
Ankan could do Bengali, if helpful
 
4. Istanbul Conference
 
·             Contact: Ivana 
·             No points for discussion
 
ACT – Saba: to share the links to the youth participation list and forms
 
5. Focal points for 10 year YFP production and consumption
 
·             Deadline has passed
·             58 applicants, shortlist will be contacted soon
 
6. Clarification on MGCY Governance Reform / OP Elections Process
 
·             Question: Interested to hear more from OPs on how MGCY will be engaging with the broader reform of the Major Group system – see Barbara Adams Report: 
·             The facilitation call is not the space to discuss broader conceptual questions / make decisions on structure and governance, need to engage with the right working group within the MGCY – specifically, talk to Ivana re: Barbara Adams Report
·             OP election process will begin in November
·             (Clarification from Ivana, post-call) The MGCY has adopted a policy on our structure and governance which is published online, this was agreed in 2011 after an 18 month process and is unlikely to go through reform/review unless a significant proportion of the MGCY constituency calls for such a process
·             Still unclear on how the broader UN DESA-led reform process affects us as the MGCY
 
ACT: Hannah to follow-up with Ivana, who is leading on this
 
 
7. World We Want Page Moderation
 
·             Ran out of time to discuss
 
8. MGCY Finance
 
·             Ran out of time to discuss
 
AOB
 
a.         Debrief proposed for meeting w/ John Podesta last month
 
·             Ran out of time to discuss
 
ACT – Hannah: to follow-up with participants via email, propose skype call if relevant
 
NEXT STEPS
 
ACT – ??: Set up additional facilitation team call  to finish off today’s agenda, including: 
·             Youth Blast follow-up
·             World We Want page moderation 
·             MGCY Finance

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Date: Unknown

GA:

• Permanent Forum on Youth advocacy update: 
• give an promatent position to young people's agenda.  Russia, US, China, Canada, Switzerland and Israel against this.The African group recently came out against it as well. Currently working with YDs and friendly member states
  
  
• Other:  Nov. 22 Intersessional
• Currently not fixed. Format will be probably a plenary. It will be open and hopefully will have as many member states as possible.
• Registration for both the OWG and intersessional are open and the link now works http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?menu=1544. 
  
  

OWG Intersessional (November & January)

OWG 5 (POC: Chris & Aashish):

• 
  
• 
  
• Registration: http://esango.un.org/irene/index.html?page=viewContent&nr=22563&type=8&section=8
  
  

This is the pad to start contributing to the MGCY's preparation for the Open WOrking Group 5. It will be held in NYC form the 25th to the 27th of November: http://meetingwords.com/OWG5

Technical briefs of the topics are available here
http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?menu=1665

SIDS 2014 (POC Karuna & Saba):

• Focal Points
• funding
• Marketing
• Form for regional focal points: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1nH4WL_JInjFMDRVw1Zik-w23D-M8_yTn2uEMC2MJ-LQ/viewform
• one bi-lingual and one speaking majority language per 3 SIDS region -- aim is to prepare for 2014 while also having calls in each of the SIDS languages. 
• Issues: We need to build capacity and that means we need volunteers who are bilingual and engaged with the processes to mentor the focal points in the following languages:
• Spanish
• French: ACT:@Karuna 
• Portuguese: ACT@Luciano. 
• What does everyone think of the idea of national hubs on each of the islands? Or at least on all islands with volunteers? 
  
  

Istanbul (POC: Ivana)

• Update
• Policy:
• Attending: CHOICE for Youth and Sexuality (Michiel & Timo)
  
  

10YFP on SCP focal points (POC: Saba [DESA / ECOSOC MGCY] & Nhattan [UNEP MGCY]:

• Applications received: 58
• Shortlisted nominees contacted & have call on Wednesday at 9am for Q&A
• Submission Deadline: 30th October
• Issues: No Eastern European Nominees.

ACT: Deadline for nominations from Eastern Europe extended until the 29th October 

• More info:  http://www.unep.org/10yfp/ActorsStructure/StakeholderFocalPoints/tabid/106262/language/en-US/Default.aspx#.UmA7ylDks9J 
  
  

World we want page (ivana)

• training workshop with zach for moderators?
• set a date and time
• capacity building?
• design of page?
• follow up on youthblast?
  
  

OP elections:

• Volunteers to create nomination process
• Volunteers to create election process
• Auditor:
  
  

Finance (OPs):
We applied for a EU/UNDESA grant and it has been agreed. UNDESA needs a natural person (and it can only go to one person) to sign who is from an organisation. This is for legal reasons. The total amount is about $60,000 and will involve the legal responcabillity. Saba/Rio+20s to sign this money. The money is for work of the MGCY over the next 2 years. The work plan has been agreed with them to do the following activites:

Work Package/Result
(details of work packages and specific deliverables will be made available shortly)            MG            Total (euros)
WP1 –Support to thematic clusters 10,000
WP1 - Develop online collaboration tools 3,800
WP2- Intergenerational solidarity 11,550
WP3- Art contest in SIDS 4,000
WP3- Youth Blast at SIDs 3,800
WP4- Enhanced coordination between major Groups’ work and Post-2015 constituency 16,000
WP4- Youth Blast at SD financing 3,500
WP5- General awareness raising and outreach 8,430
 

• 1. Suggested to name individuals in the finance working group who are clear that this is their joint responcability (morally). Money is only given in instalments and only on proof of the spending. 
  
  
• 2. Get named individuals who will coordinate the  implmentation of the projects.
  
  

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Date: September 20th 

1. Updates

• Youth Blast (Joao and Saba) 2-5:30 at UNFPA offices
• Topics to include in
• Introduction to MGCY
• Introduction to post 2015/SD
• John Podesta / UN DESA address
• Do and Dont in the UN
• How to do a bilatral meeting
• Advocy for the next few weeks
• Policy / Speaches
• CSD
• HLPF
• MDG special Event
• Media/CommunicationsCommunications
• Outreach 300  300 words a day possible to inclue 
• Blogging
• Logistics
• Morning Meetings
• Seats and places for meetings
• How to move forward after NYC
• Dinner on the 17th Tuesday in NYC to plan the meeting. Call/SMS Lloyd on +447899785265 if you want to come. 
• Death of CSD reception (Joao, Esperanza and Mike)
• Suggested to cancle this event as we have not been able to make the venue. 
• ++
• Organise something infomral after the Youth Blast event in a local bar/venue. Pod39 roof-top is just around the corner of the Orange Cafe place. 
• IANYD (Mike)
• 
  
• 
  
• Statements (Oli):
• 1) CSD20 
• 2) MDG Special Event 
• 3) HLPF:
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2. Media / Communication:

• Feature on MGCY's impact on CSDs over past 20 years!
• Contact alumni network, previous OPs, etc to get quotes, memories, successes, low points etc.
• Photo presentation?

3. Finance
We applied for a EU/UNDESA grant and it has been agreed. UNDESA needs a natural person (and it can only go to one person) to sign who is from an organisation. This is for legal reasons. The total amount is about $60,000 and will involve the legal responcabillity. The proposal is that Saba/Rio+20s to sign this money. The money is for work of the MGCY over the next 2 years. The work plan has been agreed with them to do the following activites:

Work Package/Result
(details of work packages and specific deliverables will be made available shortly)            MG            Total (euros)
WP1 –Support to thematic clusters 10,000
WP1 - Develop online collaboration tools 3,800
WP2- Intergenerational solidarity 11,550
WP3- Art contest in SIDS 4,000
WP3- Youth Blast at SIDs 3,800
WP4- Enhanced coordination between major Groups’ work and Post-2015 constituency 16,000
WP4- Youth Blast at SD financing 3,500
WP5- General awareness raising and outreach 8,430
 
 The money needs to be secured for the MGCY and not for the hosting orgasniations. We therefore need to create a governance framework. Suggestion to make sure that the MGCY Financeing group over views this money.
 
Suggested to name individuals in the finance working group who are clear that this is their joint responcability (morally). Money is only given in instalments and only on proof of the spending. 

Maybe at the next FT call we can get named individuals who will coordinate the  implmentation of the projects.

AGREE to sign now whilst we are in NYC and then set up governance board.

4. Who will be at events in NYC

AOB
Womens MG contact: Sascha Gabizon <sascha.gabizon@wecf.eu>

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AGENDA and minutes for 27th August Call

Attending: Mike, Lloyd, Benjamin Boggess, Chelsea Ricker, Sooh Ah Kwan, Hillary, Oli, Saba, 
Apologies: Ivana, Rhoda, Wen

1. MGCY Organised / participation in Events (september)

• September events: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Uy2itqHrmh-BzH6E9ZmcszwQUUOqdrBl-GlRhtbyrg/edit
  
  
• Youth blast and / DEATH OF CSD reception- http://meetingwords.com/YouthBlast
• Youth Blast - Training day, strategy for CSD and sign off on speeches
• Date: September 20th Afternoon
• Venue: Columbia University may provide venue depending on dates.
• Speakers?
• Programme? http://meetingwords.com/YouthBlast
• Focal Points: Saba and Joao

ACT: Joao to follow up about venue
ACT: Joao to email MGCY mailing list to establish team to organise / coordinate event
@ACT Youth Blast Call: 
- Send email to mailing list to coordinate a call for organizing the Youth Blast. ( Joao )
@ACT Mike, Joao and Esperanza: to sit down and call Missions to schedule a reception in honor of the death of CSD20. Maybe reach out to Sri Lanka again. 

•  IANYD
• - Still working on selecting speakers for the event. Some MGCY members will have speaking slots 
• - We can ask the MGCY for talking points that can be used during the different presentations. 
• - Agenda  and total numbers of working groups will be shared when they are finalized.
• - If you have suggestions for working groups ideas contact Mike: mike@childrenyouth.org
• - @ACT Mike: will email updates to the major group 
  
  

2. CSD20

-Talking shop to close down the CSD process.
- OPs spoke with UNDESA and mentioned that CSD was not our priority but we will have some representation. 
- There will be two seats per MGs and secondary passes for the event.
- We still dont have a process for determined who are going to be the speakers. We are collecting information from youth orgs that will be there so we can contact them directly. 
- Accreditation is important since GA will make things more complicated than usual. 
- We need:

• MGCY got speaking slot at HL segment to represent ALL MGs...Joao will represent. Statement being drafted here: http://piratepad.net/JointMGStatement
• We also need a closing statement for the CSD:  
• Speaker is needed for the interactive dialogue at the end. 
• Trackers
• Intervention

@ACT to Saba: will email mailing list about speakers

3. HLPF

- We are drafting a letter from all MGs to guarantee participation of civil society during the opening of the HLPF. So far, Business is the only one speaking
- Letter on HLPF: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CWbLPgveHYRmFAuCpuAOVM783rr2BCMLLkqka2rWBKg/edit

- Letter to Financing Committee:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eVlu4kPSqg_44uPLJ3vu2gV_uQ8WUnxdCNUkQsQof5U/edit

4. MDG Special Event

- The meeting is expected to culminate in the develop of a framework to bring together the MDGs and the SDG processes. 
- There will be an opportunity for 3 speakers on panels. Each  MG will select 3. One person will be speaking on behalf of all at the beginning, then 2 for panels. 
- UN will select 9 at the end, one per each MG. 
- Criteria: 

• needs to be good 
• familiarity with the MDGs and MGCY
• different interest, different gender, different regions
• under 30 years.
  
  

-We need to select a MGCY representative by 6th September.
- We will have a committee to select the speaker. 
- @ACT Selection Committee:  Saba, Chelsea, Mike, Lloyd 
- @ACT Saba: email with the ask on nominations and inviting people to be in the selection panel. 


5. OP Updates

SD Financing committee:
(1) the two co-chairs Nigeria (Mansur Muhtar) & Finlande (Pertti Majanen) are confirmed and very open to MGs participation
(2) they will host the briefing for Member States and other stakeholders with an annual UN Ground pass on Friday, 30 August 2013, from 15:00 to 16:00, in the Trusteeship Council Chamber. All are invited to attend. 
 
We will provide any additional information as it trickles in. 
TO DO: 

• Intervention to present a proposal on how you would propose to engage in the process. 
  
  

Pursuant to paragraph 7 of General Assembly resolution 67/203 of 21 December 2012, there will be a briefing, convened by the Co-Chairs of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing, on the progress of the work of the Committee, on Friday, 30 August 2013, from 15:00 to 16:00, in the Trusteeship Council Chamber. All are invited to attend. 

New OP elections:
- After the September events  finalize, there will be elections of the new OPs. It will be a long and democratic process.
- Elections for the MG will take place in 2013, before all MGs. There will be a call for asks and nominations. However, the MGCY will have to develop an election system.  
- We need volunteers to drive the process, including current OPs. 
- OP role will be a facilitator: link between MG and UN. Need organizations that can provide institutional support. 
- We need to develop criteria and voting system. 
-If people / individuals come forwards who are great and no ECOSOC accreditation or organisations with ECOSOC accreditation...without a candidate then its useful to make links.

SIDS interregional meeting:
Karuna temporary deputy OP.

6) Any other business
- Response to SG Reponse: Not much included on youth participation. Some groups have a response based on SHRH, youth participation and gender equality. 


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AGENDA for Monday 5 August


1. Urgent issues/Updates
- UNGA / MDG / HLPF events in September 
http://bit.ly/14pqqe8
Wed 18th - Thur 19th September: IANYD and Youth would be on the High Level IANYD only meeting (Registration to go out shortly) 
Fri 20th September (10-1PM): last CSD 20 (Registration http://bit.ly/1bOk5ix)
Fri 20th (afternoon) Session 1 Briefing with MGs and other stakeholders ( http://bit.ly/17eGYqb)
Sun 22 September (mornings) Session 2 Briefing with MGs and other stakeholders: (http://bit.ly/138xw6r)
Sat 21st - Sun 22nd September: for the ICMYO meeting (all Youth Organisations invited) 
Sun 22 September: UN-NGLS is organizing a meeting on Advancing Regional Recommendations on Post-2015: Dialogue between CSOs, Gov’ts & UN on 
Mon 23 September (all day): (1) Sustainable Cities and (2) partnerships and voluntary commitments for sustainable development that will feed directly into the HLPF.
Tue 24 September afternoon (3 - 7 pm): High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (MGCY will get one seat not more) NEED to decide who reps us:
Wed 25 September: GA High-level Event on MDGs With launch of the SG report on MDGs/Post 2015 (Registration http://bit.ly/12yGM3y)


- Update IANYD
The applications are due to go out later this week. The meeting will be chaired by the SG envoy on youth. There will be large amounts of foundations on the second day. The agenda is still to be finalised, but there will be interactive sessions, heads of agency and Ban Ki-Moon. Mike will send out more details when we get it. 

There is funding for a few participatns, every UN agency has committed to fun a number of participatns with UNFPA the most generous. The selection criteria has been worked out by the youth committee and they will select the people. A couple of the agnecies will ear mark the people that they want and there will be prioirty for global south. There will be options for online and regional office participation. 

2. Publicity Strategy

• The Publicity Coordinators in the MGCY Working Group on Website, Media and Publicity (Beth and Sharon from Kenya) have drafted an MGCY Publicity Strategy and are asking for feedback: https://docs.google.com/file/d/1bjJhizrZoSydRlkqXOxJzNDUtLufiu_dCeWTnxFBm6inkFzx6O1A3iwklNt0/edit
• One point that should be added to this strategy is: collating the list of everything published/broadcasted about MGCY/young people in one document such that one and all can have a view+add institutional memory to our movement, thence helping to carry forward the learnings. (Roli + Happy to help with the Media/Website strategy)
• Consider a person who comes to the MGCY for the first time - what information should he/she be presented with? How does he/she get involved? It's hard to keep track of all the activity in the mailing lists, maybe the website can include a simple "roadmap" of where the movement is, how it got there, and upcoming challenges+activities
• There seems to be no specific mention of activities on social media. I would suggest at least:
• Define a hastag to be used on both twitter and facebook #mgcy
• On stories and content include a call-to-action: sing-up for an activity? follow on social networks?
• Stratergy to be send atround the mailing lists for comments. 
• ACT: Ivan/Saba to get in touch and ask them to send around. 
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2. Nomination of Stakeholders Focal Points for the 10 Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns (10YFP).

• On behalf of Mr. Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), please find attached the invitation letter to nominate the stakeholder focal points and their alternates for each of the nine Major Groups to support the 10 Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns (10YFP).  
• This invitation follows the adoption of the 10YFP at Rio+20, as contained in document A/CONF.216/5

We only got the invitation a few hours ago, but its not clear that this could be nominated by the UNEP Major Gropus or from the UN SD Major Groups. 
ACT; Ivana to contact with UNEP OPs to see the next steps. 


3. Issues delt with already 

• Select 3-4 organisations (from the Children and Youth Major Group) from Asia-Pacific who are knowledgeable about Rio+20 and Post-2015 and who work closely with grassroots organisations and social movements
• Saba was dealing with this and has nominated 
• Blue Ribbon Movement
• Aashish
• ....?? 

ACT: Lloyd to contact Saba to ask who was nominated from us and if there are still places. 

• TheWorldWeWant Push on July 17

ACT: Report from OPs to be circulated to MGCY.
ACT: Map Asia pacific networks, groups, coalitions, clubs, organisations to make regional consultations in August easier. Saba sent an email to MGCY 
Icana send for coments the outreach stratergy and a focus has been given on the Children consutlation in the Childrens Working Group. 

4. Issues from the Taskforces

POST2015/SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TASK FORCE

Urgent: Select participants for the online steering committees for the thematic sessions.

Open Working Groups:

MORNING BREIFING COORDINATIONS:
5th session (25-27 November 2013) 

 (Registration Link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1KEiq9RxAZD8d2DNLnNTW-eImZh6sDv26vXqtH0ig4Ms/viewform )
        25 November: Sustained and inclusive economic growth: Oli
        26 November: Macroeconomic policy questions (including international trade, international financial system and external debt sustainability) and infrastructure development Aashish  
        27 November: Industrialization and energy Dylan / Sarah D as backup.
    
POLICY COORDINATORS:
Fifth session; 25-27 November, 2013 ( Registration Link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1WhGSY_vr_MiSp7HjL-qhcNIQdwUKB5s5VEKVQXqhEXA/viewform )

• Sustained and inclusive economic growth, macroeconomic policy questions (including international trade, international financial system and external debt sustainability), infrastructure development and industrialization (1.5 days)
• Thematic Focal Points: Rina (sustain US) and Aashish
• Energy (1.5 days) http://meetingwords.com/Energy 
• Thematic Focal Points: Pedro, Matt SustainUs, Dylan
  
  

MORNING BREIFING COORDINATIONS 
·        6th session (9-13 December 2013) 
        9 December: Means of implementation (science and technology, knowledge-sharing and capacity building) 

• Thematic Focal Points: Oli

        10 December: Global partnership for achieving sustainable development 
        11 December: Needs of countries in special situations, African countries, LDCs, LLDCs, and SIDS, as well as specific challenges facing the middle-income countries, and the right to development 
        12 December: Human rights 
        13 December: Global governance 
    POLICY COORDINATORS ( Registration Link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1WhGSY_vr_MiSp7HjL-qhcNIQdwUKB5s5VEKVQXqhEXA/viewform )
 Sixth session; 9-13 December, 2013 

• Means of implementation(science and technology, knowledge-sharing and capacity building); Global partnership for achieving sustainable development (2 days) 
• Thematic Focal Points: Oll
• Needs of countries in special situations, African countries, LDCs, LLDCs, and SIDS as well as specific challenges facing the middle-income countries (2 days) 
• Thematic Focal Points: Barkha (SIDS), Natalia (SOS Children Villages) 
• Human rights, the right to development, global governance (1 day)
• Thematic Focal Points: Sarah (International Women's Health Coalition)

ACT: LLOYD to send LINK AND LLOYD TO SEND AROUND THEASKING PEOPLE TO JOIN.

·        7th session (6-10 January 2014) 
        6 January: Sustainable cities and human settlements 
        7 January: Sustainable transport
        8 January: Sustainable consumption and production (including chemicals and waste), Dylan 
        9 January: Climate change : Oli
        10 January: Disaster risk reduction 

·        8th session (3-7 February 2014) 
        3 February: Oceans and seas 
        4 February: Forests and biodiversity 
        5 February: Promoting equality, including social equity, gender equality and women’s empowerment 
        6 February: Conflict prevention, post-conflict peacebuilding and the promotion of durable peace 
        7 February: Rule of law and governance 
        
GOVERNANCE TASK FORCE
HLPF
There is a possible request for a young woman to input in the the high level segment as a young women. We need to start thinking about how to select and what we would like to address. We should work with the MGCY and WMG together to make sure that its a joint statment. 
This would strenthen our arguemnt for making sure that a youth in involved. We can wait for selecting a person, but work on the statment. 
ACT: Ivana to link with Sacha and Alice to help draft a statment.  Hilary asks for more infomation (hclauson@hotmail.com)

Future Generations:
The UN SG report on future generations in due out in End August/Start September, which will include establshing a UN instutions to safeguard future generations - this would be MASIVE IF IT GETS THROUGH.
World Future council is alerting members states that this report is comming out soon so that they show support for it from a considerable number of states so that this doesnt end up in a draw somewhere. Thinking about getting a letter of support. 
Alot of dicussion has been on how politically palatable some of these things can be and we need to make a judgement on what is positive and what is negative (our red lines). Some think the proposal maybe something like an Envoy for Future Generations with an eye for a dedicated UN body whilst is could be more like an instiution. 

ACT; Alice to prepare a draft for the letters (good letter and bad letter) and then MGCY agree in principle depending on the report content. Ciculate to the governance task foce. 

            61/16
Currently in recess rights now. They will start back in October. This will become a big thing to follow.. There is some more treoubling working for the youth forum but its not very exciting. Lloyd has proposed wording: 
OP25bis Decides that ECOSOC will convene annually, a Youth Forum as part of its regular programme in order to enhance/increase the Council's interaction with youth in particular it functions shall be based on the good practice of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (E/2000/22) using existing resources, including the UN Trust Fund for Youth, and shall: 
(a)  Provide expert advice and recommendations on the World Programme of Action on Youth (A/RES/62/126) and wider youth issues to the Council, as well as to programmes, funds and agencies of the United Nations, through the Council;
(b) Raise awareness and promote the integration and coordination of activities relating to youth issues within the United Nations system and in particular to the UN Inter-Agency Network on Youth Development;
(c)  Prepare and disseminate information on youth issues;
(d)  Consist of a bi-annual cycle of UN Regional Youth Forums preceded in the second year with a global UN Youth Forum;
(e)  Be held in co-operation with, and including the participation of, youth-led organisations, regional youth platforms and representatives of state recognised national youth councils or national youth representatives bodies.  
(f)        Apply the rules of procedure established for subsidiary organs of the Council as applicable, unless otherwise decided by the Council; the principle of consensus shall govern the work of the Permanent Forum;

ACT: Lloyd to send around to the governace group the draft letter. 

5. Updates / Issues from the Working Groups

Specific working groups in more depth:
 --> Children children@childrenyouth.org --
https://groups.google.com/a/childrenyouth.org/forum/#!forum/children

• Co-facilitator: Sofia (sofia@childrenyouth.org)
• Some disussions on the age limite for children and young people and safty for childrens particioation on line. 
• Ciculrated the mind map for the children and post2015 and working on translating it in to the stratergy for comments. 

 --> Finance finance@childrenyouth.org

•  Waiting to still hear back from the EU grant but this will not be the final feedback. 8th August.

 --> Outreach outreach@childrenyouth.org

•  New people training
• We ran a capacity building call for members in south asia held with the Blue Ribbon Movment. There was a call for youth in Napal, and Sara spoke there. The Rescordings are online. This has inreased the intrest from Asia. 
•  Guide to the Major Group
• Saba has been working on this, but we are wiating for others to come forward to help with it. 
  
  

6. Other issues to feed back on 

• Clusters across Major Groups - proposalities
• We should aim to have something put together for the September MG meetings. This will be one of the main outcomes of the September meeting. We therefore need to put forward suggestions. 

ACT: Lloyd to email a forum asking for suggestions. 
        Suggestions that were raised are:

• World Youth Conference 

Still waiting for feedback. 

• Major Groups Reform Paper

There has been a review going on. There was a draft ciculated. 
ACT: Lloyd to email out to the MGCY: http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?page=view&type=9500&menu=1564&nr=795 for comments. 

• Organising Partners Governance Paper

There was a paper on the governance of the MG OPs and there is a proposal that all MG have a new election/selection process by June 2014. 
ACT: Lloyd to circulate the complitation paper. 

• Post2015 Regional Consultations 
• For Europe: organised with UNDP, Goverment of Turky and UNECE. Once the concept note has been finlaised Ivana will send it around. UNDP to fund 15 participatns, including hope for 1 MG represenative. 
• At the last OP call it was asked if regional consultations could happen along side the EU money that was needed. 
• UNICEF is supporting the consultation on youth, starting by the end of August and will pe presented at the post2015 regional constulstions. There is only 30 places for youth, but Ivana is trying to make sure that we have a couple of those places to support the process. 
• There are other regional conslutlations but we have not had the capacity for other regional consultations. 
• Asia-Pacific: August
• Aashish is selected for the CSO one for the Asia-Pacific meeting, but was rejected for the ministeral it was rejected. From the Regional Commission, Aashish to forward that email to Ivana so she can follow up.   
• Latin America:
• Europe: Novermber
  
  

7. AOB

• Monday 2 September: 14:00 GMT ( ie San Francisco 07:00, New York 10:00, São Paulo 11:00, London 15:00, New Deli 19:30, Sydney 00:00,)
• ACT: lloyd to do a doodle of the best time for people and we set on that one. 
• Mike to coordinate the next call.
• Then Monday 7th October
  
  

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• ORGANISING PARTNER UPDATES:
• Each major group is facilitated by an organising partner. This person is selected by the Major Group from time to time and confirmed by the UN DESA as the facilitator of the space. They are organisations who appoint lead people, They do not speak on behalf of the major group more than anyone else in policy, but do act on behalf of the major group in logistical affairs. Presently the MGCY has 2 Organising Partners (OPs): Rio+Twenties (registered in Belgium) and Centre for Human Rights and Development Studies (based in Serbia). The OPs and their Deputies can be contacted on OP@childrenyouth.org
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• Rio+twenties: Saba (saba@childrenyouth.org) and Deputy Lloyd (lloyd@childrenyouth.org)
• Centre for Human Rights and Development Studies: Ivana (ivana@childrenyouth.org) and Deputy John (john@childrenyouth.org) 
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• Major Groups Reform Paper
• Organising Partners Governance Paper
• All other items discussed in agenda. 
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•     AOB:
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• Other Follow up from the Multi-Stakholder event
• MDG review event (25th September)
• Financing for Sustainable Development sessions
• SIDS Conference 
• s multi-stakholder day
• Follow up on activates with UNICEF

 
-- Outreach and Intergration outreach@childrenyouth.org --
https://groups.google.com/a/childrenyouth.org/forum/#!forum/outreach

• Co-ordinator: offer from Restless Development 
• Link with Beyond2015 Working Group on Children and Youth
•  Follow up from multi-stakholder day
  
  
  
  

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Meeting Minutes, 12 Jul 2013 at 18:00 GMT (7pm London time, 8pm Berlin Time, 2pm New York Time)

Facilitator: Saba
Attending: Joao, Saba, Sara, Ivana, Lloyd, Shani, Aashish, Matt, Natalia, Wen, Sarah, Mike, Stacey, David
Apologies: Oli (SF), John (Conference), Esther (internet issue and timing), Kabita (internet issues)

URGENT UPCOMING OPPORTUNTIES / EVENTS / FOLLOW UP:

1. UNICEF about the  Pre Youth Conference for the regional consultation on Post 2015 and SDGs in Istanbul 3 - 6 of September
Volunteers to be the point of contact and facilitators of MGCY involvement with this meeting plus compile list of those attending, ensure youth and children represented and visibly present. No funding available
    Volunteers: Sarah (TBC), Shani, Joao(to facilitate), 
    
2. Financing  (Policy) -- Intergovernmental Committee on a Sustainable Development Financing Strategy

• Established on 21 June
• 10 July, Ambassador Šahović from the Office of the President of the GA facilitated informal consultations with Permanent Missions of the Members of the Committee on the preparations of the first session of the Committee. 
• Agreed that the first official session of the Committee will be held on 28-30 August 2013. Ambassador Šahović highlighted that the election of Co-chairs, and decision on the modalities and the programme of work of the Committee would constitute key elements of the agenda for the first session.  The GA President will conduct bilateral consultations to identify the co-chairs. This means that the first meeting will be open to the members of the committee only so they can determine their program and modalities of work. 

NOTE: It will be important to start a consultation now so that a proposal for a few options on modalities of participation. Focal Point: Ivana,Shani, Aashish

3. Regional consultation on Post 2015 and SDGs in Istanbul 3 - 6 of September topic (Part of the Outreach and Post2015 and Sustinable Development Policy Working Group): “Inclusive and Sustainable Development: Perspectives from Europe and Central Asia on the Post-2015 Development Agenda” 

• The high-level event is hosted by the Government of Turkey and organized in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). They are proposing a civil society consultation on the 4th September 2013 with results being presented  
• Teleconference on Thursday, 18 July, 15h30 Geneva time/ 9.30 am NY time
• Volunteers (preferablly x 3 and can overlap with number 1) to be the point of contacts and facilitators of MGCY involvement with this meeting plus compile list of those attending, ensure youth and children represented and visibly present. No funding available...
  
  

4. Child and Youth Consultations on the World We Want 

• Being launched soon. Need moderators to be trained and outreach team to promote
• Please provide your feedback on the consultation questions by July 16th https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i6Nbqc5q1Q6SmSIvGUMuyG6mjcFZiPIprhuhuCpVzU4/edit?usp=sharing

We need moderators and facilitator
ACT: 
It's in initial phase. 
We need facilitators and moderators for both world we want and MGCY. 
questions like what you like about your community and what you dont will be in the topics.
3 consultants for children, 1 for others
At this point we have not involved children actually. We need activities with them. This consultation will be in the age limit: 8-18
Useful if the children working group gets involved. 
http://www.groups.google.com/a/childrenyouth.org/forum/#!forum/children

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5. Capacity Building (Part of the Outreach and Intergration Working Group):

• South Asia conference call on post2015 policy 20th July 2013 at 2.30 pm GMT(time tbc)

facilitators: Blue Ribbon movement
Speakers: Aashish, Saba, Volunteer on post2015 policy, volunteer to speak about beyond 2015 work / MDGs?
Conference line set up: volunteer:
Blue Ribbon has been setting this up.

• Identify other regions / countries / networks / coalitions / organisations that would like a capacity building webinar or with the capacity to hold physical capacity building offline??? to be discussed at meeting.
• Other regions:
• SIDS: 
• Caribbean: Saba linked up
• Pacific: 
• Africa: 
• Middle East: 

http://www.groups.google.com/a/childrenyouth.org/forum/#!forum/outreach

• New People meeting monthly
• Saba suggests for training:
• Aashish
• Palash (palashranjansanyal@gmail.com)
• Nicole (nicole@internationalyouthcouncil.com)
• Shani (Shani9132@gmail.com)
  
  

6. Google Hangout on Youth and the Post-2015 Development Agenda with John Podesta and Tawakkol Karman (Part of the Outreach and Post2015 and Sustinable Development Policy Working Group)

• submit your question in advance of the event via Twitter, Facebook, or email at amalknecht@americanprogress.org. Tweets should mention @johnpodesta with #Youth2015.
• We know that Willice (IYC Kenya) will be speaking as a youth respondent plus Rachel and Luze (Indonesia, Mexico) have been invited to provide opening comments, but the bulk of the call would be open for discussion so I'm sure there would be time for substantive interventions.
• Volunteer:(Please do write your name and email) Hung Vo (hungvo@iycusa.com)
  
  

7. Budapest Water Summit 2013 (Part of the Outreach and Post2015 and Sustinable Development Policy Working Group):
- Goal of the Summit: Provide recommendations on the SDG for Water and the post-2015. Event will be attended by all high level officials working on water. 
- MGCY will host a session on Universal Access to Water and Sanitation 
-All panelists have received an email if they are being funded. 
-Online consultation taking place to determine the content of the session and format.
-Further discussions online. Join at: http://www.wateryouthnetwork.org/
- Funding avialable: you can apply to http://www.wateryouthnetwork.org/ not us
MGCY is helping to coordiante and lots of youth based NGOS are part of this. It is related to the water and post-2015 agenda. There will be a session that the MGCY will run on universal access. Panelsits: Joao, Wilice, Olimar, Jovana, Roos (Saba helping coordainte) 

Please contact Olimar (olimarmaisonet@gmail.com) for more info (call to be scheduled). Funding available but apply asap via the official website (email sent to youth space) http://www.wateryouthnetwork.org/archives/258

Another conference on water where youth and women are seeking to attend. Stacey will try and attend: http://www.unwater.org/
Stacey to send an email if its possible to still apply to everyone so that they opertunity can be spread out. 

8. Meeting with Youth at the Annual meeting for the Inter-Agency Network on Youth Development (http://social.un.org/youthyear/unianyd.html) (Part of the Outreach and Intergration Working Group)

Decision: Mike
Runner ups: Joao and Chris D.

• Nominate a representative as a member of the sub-group to help plan for this meeting (someone involved with OWG Policy lobbying preferably)
  
  

Nominations should already be filled in before the start of the meeting on: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1p-sr62XnqN8H5255LUHeV5kMg3GzVTH1hoKA5aB_hyM/viewform
-No funding avialable for the planning

The following people have applied so far:

• Nicole Rapista
• Joao Scarpelini
• Kabita Gautam
• Christopher Dekki
• Ivana Savić
• Michael Kalmus Eliasz
  
  

People who are willing to select: 

• Saba (saba@childrenyouth.org)
• Lloyd (lloyd@childrenyouth.org)
• Aashish (aashish@childrenyouth.org)
• Sara (sajosve@gmail.com)
• Gabriela (gabrielaguimaraespereira@gmail.com)
• Ankan (deankan@gmail.com)
  
  

Criteria to think about:

• Involved with OWG (facilitating others to policy lobby preferably) 
• Organised events in the past
• Understanding of the UN and the workings of the UN
• Demonstrated taking on facilitation roles and not just a spokesperson/policy person
• Availability should also be an important criteria
• Rappot with the members of the agency
  
  

ACT: selection committee to vote (done)
ACT: results to be shared with MGCY (done)

Decision: Mike to be the representative and Chris & Joao to support if Mike needs it.

9. Last OWG Follow Up (Part of the Outreach and Post2015 and Sustinable Development Policy Working Group)
request by Sarah Gold:
co-chairs report for the 4th OWG meeting will not reflect the many calls made by governments and civil society for sexual and reproductive health and rights (nearly 50 countries made explicit calls for SRHR and Uruguay delivered a powerful statement on behalf of 23 states calling for universal access to SRH services, comprehensive sexuality education, and the fulfillment of sexual and reproductive rights).  I’ve worked on a letter with the Women’s Major Group urging for the report to accurately reflect these calls and was wondering how you feel about trying to send a similar letter on behalf of the MGCY drawing on the final talking points we developed? 

Send a constructive letter. This may rock the boat but as long as we are not aggressive. 
Sarah Gold to make the initiative. Mike to look over the letter. 

ACT: Saba emailed Sarah (done)

• thank you letters / cards 
• Names to thank:
• Chantline
• Commonwelath
• UK mission
• co-chairs
• Netherlands
• Beppe  :-)
• ....
• submit synthesised report to co-chairs - submitted a report on employment but need to submit report for Indicators: Volunteers: Palash
• Article for UN SD website:
• Side events on Employment and Indicators
• General Article from a youth angle. 
• sponsors reports?
• bills - all paid for Indicators event. UK mission to challange the bill for the Employment event. 
• Upload to the WorldWeWant website
  
  

10. WORKING GROUPS
The MGCY has working groups that look at internal, operational issues or special interest issues. There are currently 4 Working Groups: (1) Children; (2) Finance & Fundraising; (3) Outreach and Integration; (4) Publicity, Website & Media.
We really need people to join and take an active role in all the working groups. Please let us know if you are interested!
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11. Publicity, Website and Media publicity@childrenyouth.org --
https://groups.google.com/a/childrenyouth.org/forum/#!forum/publicity
Co-ordinator: Saba in the interim until someone better can be found.
See: http://meetingwords.com/MGCYCommunications
Next call? Please fill in : http://www.doodle.com/xq3afeghrth84vmh so we can pick a time for the first meeting.

• Website:

Volunteers to develop content (e.g what the tabs should be and what should be on the tabs) and redesign (small budget available). 
Saba gettting a group together (contact her if you are intrested: saba@childrenyouth.org)

• Facebook: 

Please like https://www.facebook.com/UNCSDYouthCaucus

12. Finance and Fundraising finance@childrenyouth.org --

• Co-ordinatior: Sarah Dayringer and OPs (op@childrenyouth.org)

Please note that the Finance and Fundraising Group doesn’t give out money to members to participate or run projects. It looks at ways to get resources for the operation of the Major Group. All funds are sent through either OP organisations or our USA partner SustainUS. 

• Update on EU funding 
• Ideas for supporting an office in New York: initally talked about the network for univiersities budget line to help support this. 
• Crowd source funding for initiatives?
• Other Funding ideas
  
  

Volunteered to help (PLEASE PUT YOUR EMAIL DOWN)

• Wen
• Sarah Dayringer (sday56k@gmail.com)
• Lloyd (lloyd@childrenyouth.org)
• Ivana (ivana@childrenyouth.org)
• Nicole -GoFundMe (nicole@internatinalyouthcouncil.com)
• Aashish (khullar.aashish@gmail.com)
• Matthew Lundy (matthew.lundy09@gmail.com)
• Shani (Shani9132@gmail.com)
• AV
• armine1991@gmail.com
  
  

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    Next Call:
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• Time/Date: Monday 22nd 14:00 GMT ( ie San Francisco 07:00, New York 10:00, São Paulo 11:00, London 15:00, New Deli 19:30, Sydney 00:00,)
• Then Monday 5th August
  
  

The audio of the call is available here in 20 min: https://soundcloud.com/united-nations-major-group-children-and-youth-mgcy/mgcy-facilitation-call-12-07 

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-- Children children@childrenyouth.org --
https://groups.google.com/a/childrenyouth.org/forum/#!forum/children

• Co-ordinator: Sofia (sofia@childrenyouth.org)
  
  
• Upate from children working group as multi-stakholder day
• Follow up on activates with UNICEF

 
-- Outreach and Intergration outreach@childrenyouth.org --
https://groups.google.com/a/childrenyouth.org/forum/#!forum/outreach

• Co-ordinator: offer from Restless Development 
• Link with Beyond2015 Working Group on Children and Youth
•  Follow up from multi-stakholder day
•  World Youth Conference 
•  New people training
•  Guide to the Major Group
  
  
• ACTION: Appoint Co-Ordinator
  
  

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13. ORGANISING PARTNER UPDATES:
Each major group is facilitated by an organising partner. This person is selected by the Major Group from time to time and confirmed by the UN DESA as the facilitator of the space. They are organisations who appoint lead people, They do not speak on behalf of the major group more than anyone else in policy, but do act on behalf of the major group in logistical affairs. Presently the MGCY has 2 Organising Partners (OPs): Rio+Twenties (registered in Belgium) and Centre for Human Rights and Development Studies (based in Serbia). The OPs and their Deputies can be contacted on OP@childrenyouth.org
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• Rio+twenties: Saba (saba@childrenyouth.org) and Deputy Lloyd (lloyd@childrenyouth.org)
• Centre for Human Rights and Development Studies: Ivana (ivana@childrenyouth.org) and Deputy John (john@childrenyouth.org) 
  
  
• Major Groups Reform Paper
• Organising Partners Governance Paper

All other items discussed in agenda. 

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14. TASK FORCE UPDATES:
Taskforces are the groups, which work on our policy and negations. MGCY has two one focusing on the policy debates and post-2015 and the other on the Governance of Sustainable Development. Please put NAMES and EMAIL addresses (so we can contact you)
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-- Post 2015 and Sustainable Development Policy Task Force post2015@childrenyouth.org --https://groups.google.com/a/childrenyouth.org/forum/#!forum/post2015

• Co-ordinator: Aashish (aashish@childrenyouth.org) and Lloyd (lloyd.russell-moyle@youthforum.org)

 
Future Open Working Group
Fifth session; 25-27 November, 2013 

• Sustained and inclusive economic growth, macroeconomic policy questions (including international trade, international financial system and external debt sustainability), infrastructure development and industrialization (1.5 days)
• Thematic Focal Points: Rina (sustain US) and Aashish
• Energy (1.5 days) http://meetingwords.com/Energy 
• Thematic Focal Points: Pedro, Matt SustainUs, Dylan

 
Sixth session; 9-13 December, 2013 

• Means of implementation(science and technology, knowledge-sharing and capacity building); Global partnership for achieving sustainable development (2 days) 
• Thematic Focal Points: Mike
• Needs of countries in special situations, African countries, LDCs, LLDCs, and SIDS as well as specific challenges facing the middle-income countries (2 days) 
• Thematic Focal Points: Barkha (SIDS), Natalia (SOS Children Villages) 
• Human rights, the right to development, global governance (1 day)
• Thematic Focal Points: Sarah (International Women's Health Coalition)

 
Seventh session; 6-10 January, 2014 

• Sustainable cities and human settlements, sustainable transport (2 days) http://bit.ly/11YTqbY
• Thematic Focal Points:
• Sustainable consumption and production (including chemicals and waste) (1.5 days) 
• Thematic Focal Points: Dylan  http://meetingwords.com/sdgscp
• Climate change 
• Thematic Focal Points: Oli, SustainUS
• disaster risk reduction (1.5 days) 
  
  

Eight session; 3-7 February, 2014 

• Oceans and seas, forests, biodiversity (2 days) Dylan http://meetingwords.com/sdgoceans
• Thematic Focal Points: 
• Promoting equality, including social equity, gender equality and women’s empowerment (1.5 days) http://meetingwords.com/sdgGender
• Thematic Focal Points: Sarah (International Women's Health Coalition)
  
  
• Conflict prevention, post-conflict peacebuilding and the promotion of durable peace, rule of law and governance (1.5 days)http://bit.ly/17A1X9x
• Thematic Focal Points: 

 
Last OWG: (can send some written feedback after, going to be writing up for IFMSA anyway - Mike) yes, please and thank you. did you try 

• Feedback:
• Positives:
• Negatives:
• Lessons learnt:
• Events
• Breifing: 13th June Children and SDGs
• Success--room packed and 50 via world we want website
• Youth Blast: 16th June
• success-- 38 youth plus 2 UN (Ravi and Beppe)
• Side Event: 17th June Youth and indicators /          benchmarks
• Success-commonwealth happy and speakers went well. Sponsored by commonwealth who paid for food and room
• Side Event: 19th June Employment
• Success in terms of turn out, there was less innovative issues addressed, podcast made and to be uploaded to a website. Payment remains an issue as despite cancelling the audo we have been charged $700. The UK is going to challange this with the UN as they belive it is unfair charges and will keep us updated. 
• Outcomes
• Concluding Remarks from co-chairs: http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/3693cochairsconcluding.pdf
• Co-Chairs Summary: http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/1871cochairssummary.pdf
• Major Groups Meeting Summary: http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/1872mgsummary.pdf       
  
  

 
-- Governance and Participation Task Force governance@childrenyouth.org --
https://groups.google.com/a/childrenyouth.org/forum/#!forum/governance

• Co-ordinator: John (john@childrenyouth.org) and Alice (alice.vincent@worldfuturecouncil.org)

 

• HLPF
• Agreed: Some alterantive reading of this text which includes a thought that the major group participation was for the ECOSOC segment. After re-reading we are hopefull that it is for all segments (GA and ECOSOC) 

 

• 61/16 (Negoations for reform of ECOSOC including some carry over from the HLPF discussions)
• Issue: MGCY asked to leave the negotiations by OLA (resolved: Yes, letter was sent to the co-chairs and it was agreed that we could observe. - Update from Matt / Chris / John)

 

• Governance for Future Generations
• Meeting took place last week in Geneva (5-7 June) and consultations now online - feed into: http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?page=view&nr=635&type=12&menu=35

  
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• Other Follow up from the Multi-Stakholder event
• TheWorldWeWant Push on July 17 - Do we want to participate on this? 
• MDG review event (25th September)
• Financing for Sustainable Development sessions
• SIDS Conference 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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