Business Engagement in Integrated Landscape Approaches

Pan African Business and Biodiversity Forum

Louis WertzOctober 9, 2015

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

Needs AssessmentPrivate 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)

Understand the Private Sector78% 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”

Missing Materials

DO YOU HAVE MATERIALS FOR COMMUNICATING THE VALUE OF YOUR WORK WITH THE PRIVATE SECTOR?

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

Private Sector Value Addition• HAVE YOU

RECEIVED TRAINING FOR IMPLEMENTING TOOLS USED IN PROJECTS INVOLVING THE PRIVATE SECTOR?

Materials for Private Sector EngagementPartnerships needed to train landscape managers

Materials for Private Sector EngagementPartnerships needed to train landscape managers

THANK YOUTo continue the conversation contact me at lwertz@ecoagriculture.org