Sikander Sabeer: GYBN Policy WG - Meeting Minutes- 22/09/12

Sunday, September 23, 2012

GYBN Policy WG - Meeting Minutes- 22/09/12

GYBN Policy Working Group

2st Meeting - 22.09.2012 - 1pm GMT:

Agenda

Participants: Sikander, Isabel, Mpha

Facilitator- Sikander

Note Taker- Isabel

Start of the meeting: 3.30 GMT, proposed end 4.14 GMT

- Round of Introduction:

SIkander- Sri lanka, Post 2015 MDG Cordinator

Isabel - Germany, Student of International Relations

Mpha- Malawi, Student at UNU-IAS,(MSc. Environmental Governance)

- GYBN Side Event on October 16th - we have time to present both GYBN and our Position Paper there-> proposal not to talk about it as the action group already works on that

- Discussing a Strategy to work on the policy paper

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WtdraL1hvPY1XMtMSBJHYmGnVLgVf2RqH0qQmLcEvBk/edit?pli=

-- Lobbystrategy for COP11. How do we want to use our position paper for lobbying activities at the COP?

Sikander: proposal to have a working group on the wider policy document as well as to have more precise subgroups for the lobbying in order bring more the youth perspective in/indentify topics that are important for youth

Mpha: difficult to bring a specific youth perspective in, youth require different things depending on where they live

Isabel: we have to remember that we will have a opening speech and a speech at the end, where we will have to talk about the general issues as Strategic Plan, Finance etc.

Sikander: but specific interventions

Sikander: identify issues that relate to youth

- education

Isabel: if we have a seperate working group on the policy paper and subgroups to lobby will create parallel structures

Mpha: but lack of time

Isabel: proposal to take out mountain biodiversity of the position paper, as it is not longer in the offical agenda of the CBD Secretariat

Sikander and Mpha: important to take it in again!use it as lobbying point

Finalization of the position paper

Sikander: problematic, because people are not turning up to the skype calls

Mpha: important that others refer to the position paper, important to stress that the 29th is the last day to comment

Sikander: googlesheet and share it

Official Agenda for the COP 11:

http://www.cbd.int/cop11/agenda/

Lobbying Points/WG

Isabel: identify the subgroups:

Structuring the subgroups to lobby:

01. CBD operational process: Strategic Plan, Finance, ...

02. UN Decade on Biodiversity

03. Group on mountain biodiversity: lobby to take the issue back into the agenda

03. Other substantive issues: Forest, Marine and Coastal biodiv, agriculture,

04. Cross cutting issues: Ecosystem services, Climate Change and biodiv, subsidies, biodiversity and development

05. Capacity building/youth involvement

06. Tradition knowledge(Art. 8j) and Benefit sharing (ABS)

Sikander: important to identify topics which are related to youth and forming WG

Tasks to Do-

Isabel

- Email: sending the link of the pad, finalization of the position paper by the end of this month

- voting for the topics in doodle for (select most important topics until tuesday 5GMT) -> same people will work on the parts of the wider position paper

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About Me

Sikander Sabeer is a product of Isipathana College and holding a first class with distinction Bachelors of Science (BSc) degree on Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Microbiology from Spectrum Institute of Science and Technology (Sri Lanka), an outreach campus of University of Mysore (India). Presently reading for his Masters of Science (MSc) on Business Management at National School of Business Management (Sri Lanka), an outreach post-graduate institute of University of Dublin (Ireland).

Sikanders’ development work can be categorized into three avenues, namely community service and community development; youth empowerment and professional development; climate change and sustainable development. Meanwhile his development work is two phased, firstly action oriented, secondly strategic and advocacy. In the action oriented phase, he gets in to the field and implements his ideas. He works very closely with multi-stakeholders such as children, school students, youth, corporates & business firms, UN agencies, non-governmental and government organizations on diversified projects at different levels and on different capacities. With his strong grass-root level initiatives and experience, he invests equal time on advocacy, mentorship and youth policy framework, which is a unique, and a strategic bottom up approach.

Sikanders’ voluntary action oriented initiatives and his strategic thinking has given him numerous opportunities to be a guest speaker and youth facilitator; to share his experiences, best practices to motivate and inspire youth at number of National and International youth conferences. He has represented his country and fellow youth (1/4th of Sri Lankan population) at high profile youth conferences and high level UN summits/conferences, at some of the UN meetings I have served as an ‘Official Youth Delegate’ of the National Delegation team headed by HE president. Half of the world’s population is made up of young people and as a youth representative and a major stakeholder he had made several interventions on behalf of Global Youth and Sri Lankan youth at some of the UN conferences.

He has held several key positions in organizing several national and international events/programmes and he is one of the co-creators of the YOUTH is the word –Guinness World Record, where 1500 Sri Lankan youth stood to gather to form the largest human mosaic in the world.

His local, national and international initiatives on youth led community development, Climate Change; youth empowerment and youth advocacy led him to earn the most prestigious “Commonwealth Youth Awards (CYA)” for Excellence in Development Work (2012), The CYA’s celebrate and recognize extraordinary young people among one billion audiences from 54 member states of Commonwealth who are making a positive difference to the lives of others through development initiatives ranging from poverty alleviation to education and protection of the environment. This is awarded by Commonwealth Secretariat (CYP) headed by HM Queen Elizabeth II. He earned the "Global Changemaker" title of British Council Youth Empowerment Programme on 2010 for outstanding contribution for Voluntary Activities. He serves as a Youth Ambassadorial role for climate change and serves as a Youth Facilitator for climate sustainability under British Council International Climate Champion program. Apart from these major recognitions his team earned U.S. Department of States Federal Assistant Award Grant for “Green the Home” project and Global Changemakers Community Action Project (CAP) and Regional Action Project (RAP) grants for Youth Empowerment Initiatives.

Presently Sikander is serving as an Assistant Manager for Business Development and Project Officer for recycling solutions for Neptune Recyclers (Neptune Papers [Pvt.] Ltd) in Sri Lanka, a member of multinational corporate Expolanka Holdings PLC. He works very closely with multi- stakeholders, especially with school students, Industries and Corporates on recycling solutions which create an additional income from the trash while minimizing the environmental pollution.

"Do as much as voluntary activities, because volunteers Inspire in Action, they make a real change in their community, they talk less and work a lot, but never expect any personal benefits from their action, Indeed one day they will earn the rewards, that’s confirmed; Install this in your mind “I will do the best I can”

-Sikander Sabeer-