Dear MEAC members, Its my pleasure to provide you with some comments regarding the draft of Middle East and Adjoining Countries Strategy document, hope you find these comments well:- 1- MEAC-SWG strategy is to “Attract more active and engaged participants from the MEAC region to contribute to ICANN's policy development processes and to acquire leading roles within the ICANN community.”. ( Its important to note that the engagement of the participants shall include most cities of each country. usually, these initiatives only reach to the people who are in capital cities, especially those have a background on ICANN roles. I think you have to be with aware persons from poor cities in MENA region.2- As you stated in your objective regarding "training trainers from the region and support them to become lead trainers". I think you have to provide these trainers with such advanced course regarding ICANN, its better to make tests for them in order to do their mission perfectly, i also would like to recommend providing them with a moral and financial awards. the justification of this comment is that the trainer must have a motivation to do such training program. 3- To activate your objectives, you can contact with some universities in MENA region to prepare such collaboration agreement to make training courses or making such events regarding ICANN and its missions, especially students usually have an acceptable response to these events. Best regards. Huthaifa Albustanji