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31 August 2006

Capetown, South Africa

The Country SLM Investment Framework (CSIF)

Overview

Part one:

What is it

Part two:

Engaging in a CSIF

An operational tool for programmatic engagement

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The CSIF is a tool for implementing the TerrAfrica Country Engagement Strategy

The CES is not a step-by-step prescription for engagement at the country level. Rather, it is a broad guide on how the engagement process should be conducted.

The CSIF will deal with and adapt to country-specific situations. It is a tool for countries to align sectors, stakeholders, and donors around an operational roadmap.

This will be elaborated in Part One: What is CSIF

Overview: What is the CSIF?

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Countries engage in a CSIF along a continuum between two poles:

1. Full CSIF – full programmatic approach (corresponds with Country Program)

2. Preliminary CSIF – puts countries on the track toward more programmatic approach (corresponds with Targeted Investments)

This will be elaborated in Part Two: Engaging in a CSIF

Overview: Engaging in a CSIF

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The Country SLM Investment Framework (CSIF)

Overview

Part one:

What is it

Part two:

Engaging in a CSIF

Part One: What is it?

A tool for countries to align sectors, stakeholders, and donors around an operational roadmap.

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CSIF: Goal & Value Added

Goal: establish a country-owned operational roadmap for aligning sectors and donors around programmatic investment, in line with the CES

Objective: mainstream and scale-up SLM to secure ecosystem services and enhance rural livelihoods

Value added:• Improve investment quality, targeting, and sequencing • Lower transaction costs• Leverage co-financing that is more catalytic, strategic, and

cost-effective• Promote use of accurate and comparable M&E indicators• Assist climate-proofing of SLM

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CSIF is a tool, not a condition, and follows CES principles

CSIF is owned, produced, and led by countries

CSIF is multi-sector, multi-stakeholder and multi-financier

CSIF builds upon and helps implement existing priorities found in:PRSPs, CAADP and EAP processes, NAPs, sector strategies, adaptation studies/strategies, basin action programs, etc.

CSIF is living document: regular updating, and keyed to national development planning

CSIF: Characteristics

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What is investment in the CSIF context

Not only physical investment (ie, the hardware):• civil works, equipment, goods, inputs

But also the software:• Invest in human capital (e.g. training)• strengthen the knowledge base (e.g. filling key research

gaps and linking to investment decisions)• Strengthen institutions and governance• improve financial, policy, and economic incentives

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CSIF Intervention Levels

Farm/Forest/Rangeland

This is where it happens!

National

Sub-National- administrative

- ecosystem/watershed

Local-local government- community level

CSIF will identify priority areas for SLM investments

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CSIF – Main Actors

Scaling upSLM

Land users/managers

men and women

Government national

local (incl. traditional)

Civil SocietyCBOs, NGOs

Service providersinputs, outputs, research, advice

CSIF will continuously build stakeholder ownership through preparation, and partnerships in implementation, M&E and updating/revision

Main sectors:• agriculture/ grazing• forestry

but also:• inland fisheries/ aquaculture• tourism• wildlife• energy

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1. Supporting on the ground activities for scaling up SLM

2. Creating a conducive enabling environment for SLM

3. Strengthening commercial and advisory services for SLM

4. Developing effective SLM knowledge management, M&E and information dissemination systems

CSIF: Components

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1. Supporting on-the-ground activities for scaling up SLM

Activities:

• 1.1 Identification of best entry points for scaling up SLM to achieve ecosystem integrity.

• 1.2 Capacity building for SLM implementers (farmers, forest users, rural community members, etc.) to support integrated approaches to natural resources management.

• 1.3 SLM investment pilots/demonstration sites with embedded scale-up strategy.

• 1.4 Strengthening farmer/producer organizations for adoption and up-scaling of SLM practices

• 1.5 Providing incentives for SLM adoption (including support to design of environmental services payments, targeted matching grants or credit programmes).

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2. Creating a conducive enabling environment for SLM

Activities:• 2.1 Integrating SLM into national and sectoral development frameworks at

national and decentralised levels.• 2.2 Integrating SLM objectives and requirements into institutional and legal

reform processes • 2.3 Capacity building for SLM at all levels, to support awareness, coalition

building and advocacy.• 2.4 Strengthening cross-sectoral spatial planning systems at the national

and decentralised level to prioritize investments between agro-ecosystems and types of intervention.

• 2.5 Reviewing country investment programmes and public expenditure frameworks to identify constraints and entry points for SLM and to increase predictability of financial flows to SLM.

• 2.6 Analysing and rectifying incentive frameworks for SLM.• 2.7 Building or strengthening early warning systems, contingency and

response capacity.• 2.8 Strengthening traditional and innovative conflict resolution mechanisms

to avoid, mitigate and resolve conflicts over NR

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3. Strengthening commercial and advisory services for SLM

Activities:• 3.1 Identify non-policy constraints/bottlenecks to SLM

adoption.• 3.2 Capacity building for SLM service providers.• 3.3 Strengthening input suppliers (seeds, tools,

seedlings, etc.).• 3.4 Marketing support for outputs from SLM, including

certification systems to strengthen fair trade and eco-labelling schemes.

• 3.5 Strengthening providers of financial services to offer financial products to support SLM adoption.

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4. Developing effective SLM knowledge management, M&E and information ‘dissemination systems

Activities:• 4.1 Supporting targeted and applied SLM research (technical,

economic, social), including long-term ecological research and monitoring, directly linked to scale-up agenda.

• 4.2 Support knowledge sharing and innovation networks based upon participatory/community-driven and iterative approaches.

• 4.3. Strengthen capacity of SLM stakeholders for innovation• 4.4 Developing M&E MIS for SLM for CSIF implementation

and evaluation• 4.5 Developing effective national dissemination strategies for

lessons and best practices (to complement regional TerrAfrica efforts).

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Selecting priority interventions – various options: • thematic: between or within CSIF Components• geographic: high-potential vs. low-potential areas,

hotspots/brightspots, priority ecosystems, • technical: prevention versus rehabilitation

Creating early momentum with quick wins:• identify and dismantle perverse incentives• build upon successes• use and strengthen existing SLM institutions• bring SLM into existing programs• start with low cost and low risk investments

Harmonization & Alignment• horizontal and vertical, between stakeholders and donors

Prioritization and harmonization

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Sector-wide programs incl. SWAPs

• NRM, Agriculture, or ForestryOperations such as:• watershed management and

irrigation• community-driven

development• research and extension• commercialization/supply

chain development• SLM

Delivery mechanisms

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CSIF Sources of Financing:• land users or managers• users of environmental services

provided by SLM• service providers and civil society• government• Donors

Financing Modalities - donors • budget support• programme approach/basket

funding• operations

Financing and its modalities

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SLMnational task force (*)

with champions

stocktaking/analysisquick assessment by team

national & sub-national consultants

preliminary CSIF

1)review of national strategies& priorities;

2)review of existing SLM related activitiesaccording to CSIF framework

(strengths, gaps, bottlenecks)

3) public expenditure review (preliminary)

4) territorial ecosystems/farming systems analysis(strengths, weaknesses, bottlenecks)

5) stakeholder consultations

TerrAfrica/SLMawareness

sensitization( continuous process)

0-1 month

1-6 months

6-9 monthsCSIF revision + priorities negotiation by national task force supported by

sub-national consultations

Final CSIF (*) could be an existing organization/council around 10 people representing :various public sectors + development partners-donors+ NGOs +farmer associations + private sector

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The Country SLM Investment Framework (CSIF)

Overview

Part one:

What is it

Part two:

Engaging in a CSIF

Part Two: Engaging in a CSIF

Two types along a continuum: preliminary and full CSIFs, supporting development of targeted investments and country programs

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Countries must first decide where on the continuum they are in terms of programmatic approaches to SLM:

Full CSIF, leading to a country program for countries with strong diagnostics and political ownership of the SLM agenda

• A country program implements all or most priority investments in a full CSIF

Preliminary CSIF, defining targeted investments for countries lacking strong analytical underpinnings and political/institutional support for full program

• Implement selective priorities identified in preliminary CSIF• Process leads toward progressively more comprehensive CSIF

and possible country program

Two types of engagement

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• Political will to make SLM a national priority

• Commitment and alignment of development partners, with one lead partner to catalyze process

• Broad-based coalition-building• Leadership of “SLM champions” in a National Task Force

• Sub-national fora and groups

• Multi-level and cross-sectoral

• Multi-stakeholder: private, public, civil society, development partners

• SLM sensitization and awareness-raising at all levels

• Regional partners (NEPAD and RECs) support the process

on a demand-driven basis

Step 1 – Engaging in the process

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• Stocktaking• Strategies, institutions, policies

• Public expenditure on SLM

• Best practices

• Existing projects and programs

• Ecosystems and landscapes: LD issues, trends and local/sub-national stakeholder expectations/needs

• Analysis• LD drivers and ecosystems at risk

• Barriers and bottlenecks

• Threats and opportunities (e.g. climate change, bioenergy)

• Potential synergies and trade-offs between multiple objectives

Step 2 – Diagnostics

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• Investment framework• Based upon:

• national priorities;

• SLM diagnostic; and

• expectations of stakeholders.

• Participatory identification and prioritization of investments

• Harmonized, coherent and cost-effective

• CSIF components guide the structure of the framework

Step 3 – Investment design and programming

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Step 4 – Implementation,monitoring and evaluation

• Participatory implementation of investment projects• Outputs, activities, M&E

• Budget, time frame, responsibilities, funding and delivery mechanisms

• Early, rapid momentum from first set of interventions

• M&E transparent and participatory to feed into CSIF update

• Regular updating of CSIF

• CSIF task force/stakeholder forum members must ensure that CSIF priorities are fed back into sectoral and other planning processes

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31 August 2006

Capetown, South Africa

The Country SLM Investment Framework (CSIF)

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An operational tool for programmatic engagement