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 [email protected] 2016 WORLD BANK CONFERENCE ON LAND AND POVERTY The World Bank Washington, DC March 15, 2016

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Page 1: Integrated landscape management in Kenya - WB Land and Poverty Conference

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

[email protected]

2016 WORLD BANK CONFERENCE

ON LAND AND POVERTY

The World Bank

Washington, DC

March 15, 2016

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Outline

• Background

• Policy assessment framework and

methodology

• Results

• Recommendations

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2015 International Commitments

How do we implement these goals?

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“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

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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

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Integrated Landscape

Management

Long-term collaboration among different groups

of land managers and stakeholders to realize

multiple objectives from the landscape

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ILM in Africa and Kenya

Africa: 87 ILIs in 33 countries

Lari sub-county, Kenya

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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

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Assessment methodology

15 laws12 policies &

strategies

8 draft policies 8 bills

Reviewed

21 Indicators

Analyzed

Interviewed

40 key informants

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Results

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Stakeholder cooperation and

coordination

• County Integrated

Development

Plans and

landscape-scale

initiatives promote

coordination, but

agencies

competitive

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Appropriate legal and

regulatory framework

• Devolution of

power, but

some

overlapping

mandates and

incoherent laws

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Knowledge and capacity

• Research and

extension in

sustainable

farming

practices, but

spatial

information

lacking

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Investment and incentives

• Public

investment in

water

catchments,

but most

financing

remains

sectoral

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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

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Thank you!

Krista Heiner, EcoAgriculture Partners

[email protected]

www.ecoagriculture.org