integrated landscape management in kenya - wb land and poverty conference
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Integrated Landscape
Management in Kenya
The state of the policy environment
KRISTA HEINER*, SETH SHAMES*, EMILY SPIEGEL**
*EcoAgriculture Partners, USA
**Duke Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, USA
2016 WORLD BANK CONFERENCE
ON LAND AND POVERTY
The World Bank
Washington, DC
March 15, 2016
Outline
• Background
• Policy assessment framework and
methodology
• Results
• Recommendations
2015 International Commitments
How do we implement these goals?
“Implementing integrated landscape
management as a part of sustainable
development strategies will be critical
to securing the future we want”
Achim Steiner
Director General
United Nations
Environment Programme
What is a landscape?
A complex mosaic, composed of…
Socio-cultural + economic systems Ecological systems
Rooted in its history
Varying in size from hundreds to tens of thousands of
hectares
Integrated Landscape
Management
Long-term collaboration among different groups
of land managers and stakeholders to realize
multiple objectives from the landscape
ILM in Africa and Kenya
Africa: 87 ILIs in 33 countries
Lari sub-county, Kenya
4 key enabling conditions
1. Stakeholder engagement and cooperation
2. Appropriate legal and regulatory
framework
3. Knowledge and capacity to plan and
manage at a landscape scale
4. Financing and/or incentives
Assessment methodology
15 laws12 policies &
strategies
8 draft policies 8 bills
Reviewed
21 Indicators
Analyzed
Interviewed
40 key informants
Results
Stakeholder cooperation and
coordination
• County Integrated
Development
Plans and
landscape-scale
initiatives promote
coordination, but
agencies
competitive
Appropriate legal and
regulatory framework
• Devolution of
power, but
some
overlapping
mandates and
incoherent laws
Knowledge and capacity
• Research and
extension in
sustainable
farming
practices, but
spatial
information
lacking
Investment and incentives
• Public
investment in
water
catchments,
but most
financing
remains
sectoral
Recommendations
• Improve inter-ministerial and interagency
cooperation
• Harmonize roles, laws across sectors and
levels of government
• Build capacity for intergovernmental
coordination at the county level
• Catalyze ILM-friendly investments