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Building Effective Conservation-based Enterprises. Successes, Outstanding Challenges and Optimal Means for Scaling up Impact. Giles Davies, AWF John Elias, The Sanctuary at Ol Lentille Timothy Ole Mosiany, Kijabe Trust. African ownership / leadership as founding principle - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Building Effective Conservation-based
EnterprisesSuccesses, Outstanding Challenges and Optimal Means for Scaling up
Impact
Giles Davies, AWFJohn Elias, The Sanctuary at Ol Lentille
Timothy Ole Mosiany, Kijabe Trust
Evolution of AWF’s Conservation Enterprise
African ownership / leadership as founding principleCBNRM in 1980s, particularly Kenya and Tanzania
Large scaleTenure and process focusBenefits stream / benefit sharing
Enterprise building focus from mid-1990sCommunity rights, ownership and
participation in decisionsPrivate sector skills and partnershipPrivate sector financingValid role for NGO as intermediary, facilitatorBusiness success and social sustainability
AWF Conservation Enterprise Program
AWF’s Conservation Enterprise Today
Compelling business & conservation logic
Structure for success
Tourism, trade, agriculture
Social sustainability, including benefit sharing
Conservation Enterprise
• What’s Going Well?
• What are the outstanding Challenges?
• How do we address them?Giles Davies, Director Conservation Enterprise, AWF
Conservation Enterprise
A commercial activity that generates economic benefits in a way that supports
the attainment of a conservation objective
Conservation Enterprise GEOGRAPHICAL ENGAGEMENT
Conservation Enterprise PROJECT PIPELINE
Conservation Enterprise SECTORAL ENGAGEMENT
Conservation Enterprise INVESTMENT SCALE
Conservation Enterprise INVESTMENT DYNAMICS
US$ 9 million total investment in the 20 projects open for business
Conservation Enterprise INVESTMENT RETURNS
What’s Going Well: Developing Critical Mass…
What’s Going Well
Getting the Context Right
Conservation
Community
Commercial
Building a Critical Mass of Commercially Viable Businesses
Key Issue 1: Capacity
Practitioner Level
Customer Level
Financier Level
Key Issue 2: Historical Financing Dynamics
Supply- Led
Finance
Demand- Led
Finance
Key Issue 2: Historical Financing Dynamics
Debt must play a more prominent role
Risk = Rigour
Mitigates Market Distortions
Funding Completion
Enhances Local Ownership and Accountability
Leverage Efficiency
Tax Efficiency
Key Issue 2: Historical Financing Dynamics: Developing Solutions
Example: Linking Livestock Markets to ConservationNorthern Kenya, Arid Lands
Commercial Loan (US$ 350k) to private sector partner (repayable 10 years): seeds the development of a CE Loan Fund within AWF.Also seeds the organic development of a dedicated revolving conservation livestock fund of US$ 1 million housed within the private sector partner.Conditional livestock purchases = US$ 8 million into local communities in first 10 year period.Fully sustainable, highly scalable.
Key Issue 3: Benefits Management
Closed Conservancy Systems – no problem
Open Community Lands Systems – a challenge
Summary
Introducing Ol Lentille
Benefits
5000 >15,000 acres
4 luxury “villas”
Vegetation recovery
Wildlife return
Economy boost: EUR300,000 in 18 months
Asset ownership: EUR 1 million +
Return on community investment: 30 x
Issues
Governance & accountability
Killing the cow and milking it
Livestock & conservation
Size matters
Thank You