Business Engagement in Integrated Approaches to Sustainable Development
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Brief summary of the learning tools on how to engage African agribusinesses in integrated landscape management, specifically participation in multi-stakeholder platforms. Planned, but not presented (as ppts were disallowed) during a panel discussion on sustainable and climate smart agriculture in Senchi, Ghana at the Pan African Business and Biodiversity Forum, hosted by Birdlife International.
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Business Engagement in Integrated Approaches to Sustainable Development
- 1. Business Engagement in Integrated Landscape Approaches Pan African Business and Biodiversity Forum Louis Wertz October 9, 2015
- 2. Integrated Landscape Initiatives (ILIs) • Multi-Objective • Multi-Stakeholder • Spatial Planning of Land Use • Ecosystem- service/Nat Cap driven • Incl. Biodiversity • Incl. Business • Beyond Farms and Fences • Shared interest in long-term sustainability
- 3. Needs Assessment Private sector engagement by SLWM projects and other landscape initiatives was missing. • What was preventing it from happening? Only 8% of African ILIs report private sector partners. (Number is much higher among survey respondents)
- 4. Understand the Private Sector 78% can easily describe the value proposition of integrated landscape management. Yet only 25% could clearly communicate that value to potential private sector partners. 68% “understand the priorities of the private sector”
- 5. Missing Materials DO YOU HAVE MATERIALS FOR COMMUNICATING THE VALUE OF YOUR WORK WITH THE PRIVATE SECTOR?
- 6. Business-focused Tools • Risk and profitability assessment tools, were used by an average of only 20% of respondents. only 20% use private sector related tools
- 7. Private Sector Value Addition • HAVE YOU RECEIVED TRAINING FOR IMPLEMENTING TOOLS USED IN PROJECTS INVOLVING THE PRIVATE SECTOR?
- 8. Materials for Private Sector Engagement Partnerships needed to train landscape managers
- 9. Materials for Private Sector Engagement Partnerships needed to train landscape managers
- 10. THANK YOU To continue the conversation contact me at lwertz@ecoagriculture.org
Editor's Notes
- TerrAfrica and EcoAgriculture Partners have teamed up since 2009 to operationalize an integrated landscape approach to SLWM in Sub-Saharan Africa. Methodology: 36 leaders from CSOs and private sector platforms that have been participating in or advocating for landscape approaches in Africa were invited to participate in a phone interview or complete an online survey. The questions used in the phone interview and online survey were the same. In addition, a paper version of the survey was distributed to 30 participants at a TerrAfrica training event in Lesotho. 28 interview and/or survey responses were collected and analyzed to identify gaps in CSO capacity to engage with private sector stakeholders in the landscapes where they work. The individual and group consultations were paired with a desk study of relevant peer-reviewed and grey literature to identify initiatives and organizations that are leading private sector engagement in landscape approaches in TerrAfrica member countries. Together the consultations and desk study were analyzed for gaps in civil-society leaders’ approach and capacity to engage the private sector in landscape approaches and mobilize private finance for supporting African landscape initiatives.
- Yet
- These include scenario analysis, risk analysis and profitability analysis tools as well as calculator tools on GHG emissions, water and energy usage.
- Tools can be an important way of bridging private sector and CSO perspectives on issues in the landscape. However, few CSOs receive training on tools, and the tools that they use are limited in scope and application. This finding points to clear needs and opportunities to offer training for CSO leaders on tools that are helpful for engaging the private sector, particularly those that have been used successfully by leading organizations. CSOs might benefit also from advanced training on tools that they are attempting to use already in projects with the private sector, such as stakeholder mapping and impact assessment tools.