Emerging experiences in public private land governance IDH Initiative for Sustainable Landscapes Utrecht, 10 July 2015

IDH: Sustainable Trade Initiative

for development impact

• Public private partnership facility

• Funded by Dutch, Swiss and Danish ODA

• Impact on MDGs1,7 and 8 and PSD

• 18 commodity chains in 50 countries

• 300 companies

• 30 international NGOs

• 130 million Euro investment capital

www.idhsustainabletrade.com

Sustainability journey

Building on the advantages and realizing the limitations of a supply chain lens

• Income and land use decisions depend on more than one crop

• Issues in the landscape related to wellbeing of communities and workers, water supplies, forests, need multi-stakeholder collaboration

• Increased attention for the role of government as regulator, enabler and enforcer

What it is: Landscape initiative focused on key commodity sourcing landscapes

Full Program (2015-18): 6 landscapes throughout the globe

Funders: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands

Co-funding Available: +/- €2 Million per landscape based on public and private co-funding mobilised by main stakeholders (in kind and in cash)

Governance: a Program Coordination Board, consisting of important stakeholders from public, private & civil society sectors

Management: IDH - The Sustainable Trade Initiative

Learning: Sharing experiences, improving the concept, inspiring others, developing replicable tools and approaches

Initiative for Sustainable Land Landscapes (ISLA)

ISLA LANDSCAPES

- Selected out of 56 proposed landscapes -Agro-commodity production; - Natural resource base under stress;

The ISLA Process

Building the coalition

Expert understanding of key issues

IDH convening, learning and co-funding role Process 3 phases

1

-> 2015 -> 2016 -2018

SHARED

LANGUAGE

FUNDING Joint actions

Public private governance

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2

3 Landscape investment

Not Just About Risk also Opportunities

Business case for landscape investment

Risk and opportunity • Reputational risks • Buyer requirement • License to operate • Legal compliance • Long term productivity • Cost saving • Co-funding mobilization • Improved legislation • Improved stakeholder

relations

Common ‘entry points’ for business engagement in landscapes

Water risk Deforestation –free commitment Restauration / off set commitments

Social /community development (risk, commitments)

Over time interest in a holistic landscape approach can grow

Business interest

SW MAU KEY ISSUES & BUSINESS LINKS

Key issues

• Forest excisions and forest fires - 136,000 out of 400,000 ha of the Mau forest complex already destroyed

• Conversion to agriculture, forest mismanagement, overgrazing, illegal settlements, population pressure

• Water quality issues: increased nutrient contents – increased cost of treatment

• Political sensitivity

Business Links

• Tea industry & associated industry

• Tea production only possible near tropical forest – sector creates ca. 35k jobs & supports 50k farmers with 430k relying on the ecosystem

• Climate stability - Lower yields- reduced employment

• Increased production costs

• Other industries dependent on Mau: tourism, timber, fishing, small holder food production and water supply for urban & domestic use

FROM COMPETING CLAIMS ON RESOURCES

Towards a financially viable multi-stakeholder governance

ISLA SECRETARIAT

TECHNICAL WORKING GROUPS

TRUSTEES and BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Stakeholders

Interventions

Stakeholders

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Company/authority Sector

Unilever, James Finlay, KTDA Tea

Kericho, Nakuru, Bomet Counties

Kengen Energy

Kenya saw millers association Timber

WRUAs, CFAs, the Ogiek

Council of Elders

Community

groups

EAWS Civil

society/NGO

Kenya Water Tower Agency,

KFS, WRMA

National

government

?? Knowledge

institution

The Interim Board

PROGRESS TO DATE AND NEXT STEPS

Feb ‘15 Oct ‘14

• Stakeholder mapping • Benchmarking with organizations

(Imarisha Naivasha, etc) implementing & funding similar projects is ongoing

• Meetings with tea sector, KWTA, Kengen, Dutch embassy

• Discussions with KFS, WARMA, NEMA, counties, community groups

• Engagement with Kericho government

• Stakeholder manager hired. Project team in place

• Building MS coalition list key issues & causes, understand incentives for each stakeholder

• Engage with stakeholders o Coalition of key

stakeholders o Bilateral Meetings

• Shared vision for sustainable landscape

• Launch Initiative

• Identify implementing partners, begin implementation

• Commitment & partnership

• Design joint intervention & planning Agree on interventions, secure co-funding

Aug 15 Mar ‘15 Q1 Q2 Q3

Long list of interventions

• Actions: o FOMAWA part funded by JFK and UTK to promote efficient commercial forestry

o Bongo Trust, part funded by JFK is working with the Ogiek and the KFS on surveillance of the endangered Mountain Bongo.

o GIZ are working on fuel efficient stoves

o KTDA is involved in planting bamboos along the riparian land

o KENGEN are involved in tree planting programs and the green school program with communities and schools within the Sondu river basin

• “Shaping the context” of finance, markets and policies o Finance and market incentives: Explore trust fund

o Improved land use planning and delivery • The Ministry of Lands and KWTA mapping critical parts in the forest to be protected

• Rhino Ark, Bongo trust and KWTA discussing the option of fencing some parts of the SW Mau Forest

CHALLENGES

• Political sensitivities : Mau is focal point for both

political & conservation interest

• Balancing between individual stakeholder interests

and a common vision, approach; interventions for max

impact, Action with landscape level impact:

Resettlement, logging, charcoal burning, livelihoods,

fencing, education,..

ASANTE SANA!