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This presentation by Louise Buck outlines the points covered in the parallel session on Strengthening Capacities for Collaborative Landscape Management in Africa at the LPFN in Africa Conference #LPFNinAfrica on July 2, 2014. (Photos in this presentation are courtesy of Neil Palmer, CIAT, CIMMYT, Lee Gross, EcoAgriculture Partners, Bernand Gagnon, Eileen Delhi and John Picken)
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Strengthening Capacities for Collaborative Landscape Management in Africa
Louise Buck, EcoAgriculture Partners and Cornell University
Introduction
• Integrated management of rural landscapes is a preferred way to satisfy human demands for resources in ways that sustain ecosystems and improve livelihood security and equity.
Working from a landscape perspective requires a broad
spectrum of capacities.
Capacities, Landscape Capacities and Capacity Development
Capacities• Knowledge:
understanding from a theoretical perspective
• Skill: applying knowledge in real life
• Attitude: shapes decisions, actions and behavior based on values, beliefs and paradigms that drive them
Photo: CIMMYT
Landscape Capacities
• Technical know-how• Ability to consider landscapes as elements of
food, livelihood and ecosystem service systems
• Feeling for spatial processes, inter-disciplinary team work, complex stakeholder learning and decision-making and local circumstances
Landscape Capacity Development
• Training • Long term engagement in landscapes• On the job facilitated collaborative learning• Landscape experience elsewhere to help
think “outside the box”
Photo: Neil Palmer, CIAT
Landscape Capacity Development Activities
Design, support, facilitation of multi-
stakeholder learning
Organizational and institutional
supportTraining Mentoring
Training of trainersAdvisory supportCoaching Action research and action learning
Farmer field schools
Other vehicles for learning
Cross-Landscape Learning Activities• Study tours• Dialogues and learning exchanges• Web-based resource portals• E-groups• International training and encounters
offered by global knowledge providers such as universities and knowledge institutes
Photo: Neil Palmer, CIAT
Landscape Capacity Development: Findings from Recent Studies
• Integrated landscape initiatives for African agriculture, development and conservation: a region-wide assessment examines 87 ILIs in 33 African countries
• Provides insight into contexts and challenges of diverse ILIs and lessons learned regarding capacity development
Region-Wide Assessment of ILIs
• Producer groups and NGOs drive most ILIs.• Most ILIs invest in improving landscape
planning, coordination and governance.• Many ILIs invest in developing capacities in
agriculture production and conservation management practices.
Photo: John Picken
NACOMA Investment in Capacity Development
• Integrated coastal management (ICM) strategy called for large scale capacity development
• Awareness raising on influence of different stakeholder groups
• Educating stakeholders on principles of ICM • Building neutral platform• Developing skills in coordination and rapport
building
Capacity Development Challenges
• Coordinating stakeholders• Building trust• Reducing conflict• Working in unsupportive policy frameworks
Photo: Lee Gross, EcoAgriculture Partners
Capacity Development Needs
• Improve private sector engagement
• Improve government support and leadership
• Improve knowledge sharing and exchange
• Improve multi-stakeholder mechanisms and governance
Photo: Neil Palmer, CIAT
Conclusions from ILI Assessment and Other Studies
• Technical management capacities relatively easy to develop
• Cross-cutting capacities related to stakeholder management, leadership and governance highly in demand
Photo: Bernard Gagnon
Key Action Areas for Landscape Capacity Development
• Curriculum development for new breed of landscape professionals
• Government support and leadership
• Multi-stakeholder mechanisms & governance
• Farmer engagement• Private sector engagement
Photo: Neil Palmer, CIAT
Potential Action Steps
• Analyze approaches, methods and results of current capacity development initiatives.
• Assess potential for building entrepreneurial landscapes.
• Form a “global landscape academy.”
Photo: Eileen Delhi
Springboards for Action
• Draw from the many groups across Africa who are developing tools and programs to enhance capacity for landscape management
• Participate in Wageningen UR Center for Development Innovation l/s learning events
• Engage with LPFN Working Group on Landscape Strengthening
Further Springboards for Action
Photo: Neil Palmer, CIAT
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