www.ecoagriculture.org www.peoplefoodandnature.org Investment in Integrated Landscape Management: Lessons learned from recent research Sara J. Scherr, President, EcoAgriculture Partners Chair, Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative World Agroforestry Centre Nairobi, Kenya March 15, 2017
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www.ecoagriculture.org
www.peoplefoodandnature.org
Investment in Integrated Landscape Management:Lessons learned from recent research
Sara J. Scherr, President, EcoAgriculture Partners
Chair, Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative
1) Scope existing sources of finance and financial flows
2) Develop a Financing Plan for the agreed Landscape Action Plan that identifies priority investments and roles appropriate for different types of investors
3) Foster new partnerships between finance institutions and landscape stakeholders
4) Design enabling investments to leverage, shape and complement private investment
5) Assist stakeholders to develop bankable investment proposals that contribute to landscape goals and demonstrate a clear ‘investment case’
6) Develop institutions to aggregate funding from multiple sources, and disburse large-scale funds to diverse land managers
Challenges for finance
institutions of ILM investments
Incorporating landscape criteria into financial decisions
Mitigating investment risks
Effective engagement in landscape partnerships
Linking/coordinating with other financial flows within the landscape
Monitoring multiple outcomes
Shames, et al. 2015
Business for Sustainable
Landscapes
Business for Sustainable
Landscapes Action Agenda
Businesses: Prepare your business for landscape partnerships
Financiers: Accelerate innovations in financing for coordinated landscape investments
Governments: Incorporate landscape strategies into national and sub-national policies
Landscape programs: Enhance tools, services and processes to address business challenges in landscape partnerships
Action Plan for ILM Finance
Strengthen financing strategies of landscape partnerships.
Step up efforts with financial institutions to test innovative mechanisms for blended finance in landscape partnerships.
Create national and international platforms brokering between credible and bankable landscape partnership investments and finance institutions.
Develop centers of expertise to advise and facilitate landscape partnerships to sustainably finance projects.
African Landscapes Action
Plan (ALAP) for Finance
Strengthen financing capacities of platforms
Develop a tool for scoping landscape finance opportunities (flows, actors, scorecard)
Coordinate investment among government, NGO and private actors
Develop training modules on landscape finance (Landscape Academy) to increase financial literacy
Undertake outreach to financial institutions in Africa