[bestbits] MAG 2018 Renewal criteria - inc geographic
imran at igfpak.org
imran at igfpak.org
Thu Oct 19 05:33:16 EDT 2017
Dear Ian Peter, and Dear All,
Thanks for explaining the optimistic approach and opportunities of
forming a balanced constituency with the CS recommendations on the
basis of addressing the weak areas.
After a reviewing the list of the rotating out representatives of the
Civil Society stakeholder group, I think following information would
be helpful for the CS candidates:
* One male and 8 female CS Representatives are due to be rotated
out. All of them have served their 3 years terms. One out of them is
from Africa, 3 Three are from Asia Pacific, 3 Three are from Eastern
Europe, none from GRULAC and Two from WEOG.
* For Africa, there is only one seat available for CS out of
three open seats making total 10 seats.
* For Asia Pacific, there is no seat available for any of the
stakeholder group (including CS) because all 11 seats are already
occupied (after reducing few numbers of seats).
* For Eastern Europe, there are three seats available for CS out
of seven open seats, making the total of 9 seats.
* For GRULAC, there is no seat available for CS out of three open
seats, making the total of 10 seats.
* For WEOG, there are two seats available for CS out of six open
seats, making the total of 10 seats.
Summary:
CS Representatives are required to fill up at least following
region-wise Six seats:
* Africa – 1
* Eastern Europe – 3
* WEOG – 2
Interestingly, it is more encouraging statistics for the women of our
civil societies that this year IGF MAG requires larger ratio of female
representatives making the right balance, in replacement of previous 8
female CS representatives rotating out, out of 9 CS members.
Thanks and Best Regards
Imran Ahmed Shah
Quoting Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>:
> The whole thing is, they want to pick a MAG that has gender,
> regional, geopolitical and stakeholder balance – all at once. And
> that is not always easy.
>
> So in the final mix a lot comes into play and civil society will
> do better if it thinks things through strategically.
>
> For instance – if, for instance, there is a lack of candidates
> from the Arab world, and a lack of female candidates as well, if
> civil society puts up a good female candidate from that area, there
> is a good chance that an extra civil society candidate will be
> selected. And indeed in the past the gender balance question has
> resulted in extra civil society reps being selected because other
> stakeholder group nominations tended to be male dominated.
> (Conversely, sometimes good civil society male candidates miss out
> for the same reason).
>
> So it is useful for civil society to endorse a diverse range of
> candidates, in excess of what on the surface appears to be the
> likely number of seats to be allocated. Within that group it is
> possible to give a more preferential endorsement to specific
> candidates, but the endorsement of extra names, particularly from
> regions or sub-regions which are underrepresented can be beneficial.
>
>
> Ian Peter
>
> FROM: Nadira Alaraj[1]
> SENT: Thursday, October 19, 2017 2:46 PM
> TO: Renata Aquino Ribeiro[1]
> CC: <bestbits at lists.bestbits.net>[1] ; Deborah Brown[1]
> SUBJECT: Re: [bestbits] MAG 2018 Renewal criteria - inc geographic
>
>
>
> Renata, Deborah and all, From past experience
> the balance may not be of same number across stakeholder group,
> particularly now with the intended decrease of MAG members.
> There is not a clear cut quota per each stakeholder.
>
> Individual members addressing the Secretariat might not get a
> clear answer.
>
> The CSCG have been demanding such information but was not
> possible, and surprises happened on the announcement of the selected
> candidates not only at the CS level but it happened too at the
> technical community candidates.
> Nadira
>
>
> On Oct 19, 2017 2:05 AM, "Renata Aquino Ribeiro"
> <raquino at gmail.com[1]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Deborah
>> I know just that is on the link too but the way I
>> understood there will be a final balance, the same number per each
>> stakeholder group, as well as regional and gender balance.
>> For any more questions, I'd advise asking Secretariat at
>> igf at unog.ch[1]
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Renata
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 6:21 PM, Deborah Brown
>> <deborah at apc.org[1]> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for this Renata.
>>>
>>> The guidance says: Each of the MAG members who is
>>> rotating out, is freeing up one seat for the Regional and
>>> Stakeholder Group they initially occupied.
>>>
>>> But the number of CS seats has been reduced by 3 (13
>>> seats down to 10) and the regional breakdown has also changed. For
>>> SH group, it looks like an effort to reduce the overall MAG size
>>> back to 50, but it would be good to understand how it was decided
>>> that the CS and private sector allocations should be reduced.
>>>
>>> On regional breakdowns, there are 3 MAG members
>>> from Asia Pacific rotating out (all CS, as it happens), but there
>>> are no available seats for anyone from Asia Pacific. In 2017 the
>>> region had 14 seats, and for 2018 it has 11. Is anyone aware of an
>>> explanation for this?
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>> Deborah
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/18/17 2:17 PM, Renata Aquino Ribeiro wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi everyone Just to clarify and complement Sheetal's post, take
>>>> a good look at the MAG 2018 Renewal criteria
>>>> https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/mag-2018-renewal-0 I'd
>>>> note this more importantly: Regional Group Balance Regional
>>>> Group - Available seats for the MAG 2018 Renewal Africa 3 Asia
>>>> Pacific 0 Eastern Europe 7 GRULAC 3 WEOG 6 And "Please note
>>>> that these breakdowns are provided for general guidance only, and
>>>> that the overall composition depends on several considerations
>>>> including the nominations received, as well as the final decision
>>>> of the UN Secretary-General."
>>>>
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