Integrated Landscape Initiatives in Africa and the Model Forests experience

Mariteuw Chimère DiawAfrican Model Forests Network

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What challenges and issues motivate and face ILIs?

One or two issues are paramount in shaping 2/3 (64 %) of the initiatives On avge, initiatives with one or two primary motivations had lower outcome scores even in their primary domain Multi-objective ILIs seem to be achieving a larger number of positive outcomes Pay off within just a few years of ILIs investments in landscape planning and coordination, institutional capacity and co-dependencies

African ILIs can:- bolster agriculture in ways that can be immediately effective and scaled up; - provide crucial ecosystem services, conserve biodiversity and increase resilience- demonstrate grounded alternatives to conventional Green revolution narratives

BUT

They don’t yet invest enough in critical livelihood and impact areas They are more top-down than in Latin America We don’t yet know enough of the design and effectiveness of landscape institutions and mechanisms to meet these challenges Shifting trends in foreign and climate finance can help move the process forward

A social map of landscapesInitiatives (beyond a single landscape)Great Green WallTerrAfrica

Model Forests Network African Heartland

GPFLRLandcare COMDEKS

Climate/REDD+Ecoregional

ConservationThe biophysical spaceMultiple ecosystemsAll Land uses

high

lowhigh

The socialscape : Inclusiveness & robustness of social organization & coordination

Local ownership

All actors & stakeholders

Need to discuss & share the design principles that can help getting there

African Model ForestsSearching for for ‘self-sustaining CBNRM systems’

In Africa, Model Forests came out of research

Adaptive Collaborative Management

CIFOR

~ background with

Devolution, ASB (ILM ‘trade-offs’), Social

Science Methods, Tenure, Social learning,

complexity and resilience ~

International Model Forests Network

Flat network of networks

Robust set of principles for building a change

vehicle of ‘7 generations’

What is a Model Forest?

A place, a partnership and a process. – The place is a landscape or

ecosystem scale area; – The partnership is voluntary and

inclusive, from policy makers, private companies, universities and enterprises to local farmers;

– The process is a journey of dialogue, experimentation, and innovation designed to understand what "sustainability" means in a given landscape and then use the partnership to work toward it.

Model Forests as hardware

A Long-lasting change vehicles that can:− outlive any single project− absorb the shocks of erratic funding fashions − invest in the long-term development of smallholders

and local value chains

Policy feedback loops: a deliberate process of making government the co-owner of a local platform innovating in transformational national policies

• Not a project but a life project, and a process owned by local actors• Not just forests, but also cities, farms, fisheries, concessions, parks and the

interconnected web of activities in a landscape• Not just communities, but an equal partnerships of all actors, big and small,

with their diverse sets of interests and values• A method of pluralist gouvernance and

territorial dialogue

A non-profit panafrican organization established in 2009 with support from the governments of Cameroon and Canada.

Secretariat based in Yaoundé, Cameroon

We develop of local economic value chains through social entrepreneurship, green innovations and participatory governance of African landscapes

The AMFN fosters public-private partnerships and works with governments research, indigenous and local people, the private sector, NGOs, as well as regional and international organizations

• Democratic Republic of Congo• Republic of Congo, • Central African Republic • Rwanda • Cameroon• Ethiopia, Senegal

Governments are our partners

9 Model Forests have been launched over 16 millions hectares in Central Africa – interest from 20 african countries

From structure to infrastructure

Spati

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idth

Social WidthTim

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Actions

Transfo

rmation

Social InfrastructureCritical mass + Critical connections = sustainability

Structure

The social landscape has structure and identity and is represented by a core group of supra local actors and platforms across land uses

Yet …

DepthDensityConnectivity

high

high

high

high

All Bio-social High

Emergence

in understanding and transforming African landscapes

Overview of An African Model

Forest journey

1o years of investing

AMFN’s One ProgrammeThe unified framework of economic intervention of the African Model Forest

Network in partnership with countries and organizations that support ILM

The AMFN’s vision is to see the african private sector emerge and valorises natural resources with the ability to undertake sustainable transformation that will give rise to a green and solid economy .

158 community leaders trained as LEFs and to create and conduct businesses

An educational and business tool that links local business ideas with markets integration in a sustainable environment, democratic governance and ethical values in Model Forests productions

2700 farmers trained

Innovative extension system

A business school for rural peoplethe Practical Itinerant School. Started in Dja and Mpomo and Campo

Ma'an Model Forests in Cameroon

Model Forest Focal Points

Local E

xpert F

acilitatorsState Extension Agents

Farm schools

microfinance

• Ecological agriculture• Agroforestry• African natural plants (oil,foods,

nutriceuticals)• Bio-fertilizer• Wood processing• NTFPs (collect, process, market)• Eco-museum, parks• Landscape restoration tree-planting

Our green innovations

Our Start up Social Entreprise

ALLModel Forests’ social business umbrella

for organic products

Never Die Moringa Center

ALL-Bio mycorrhizae

center

Our social business model

Create local wealth

Markets

Local

economy

Resources

Non profit(ASBL)

ASBL + AGR

Socially connected local enterprises

CSR

Business as usualmaximum profit

Network of enterprises

Socially responsible Business

The Model Forest Green Business label is developed to support quality production and facilitate access to local market

Our Green Social Business tools

A policy on access and benefit-sharing to protect traditional knowledge and intellectual property rights of stakeholders and indigenous people of Model Forest landscapes .

The Intellectual Property Program and Access to Benefit Sharing

Multi-stakeholder Participatory, Monitoring and Evaluation

An evaluation and self-correcting system based on indicators of changes

Facilitate the economic

empowerment of 120000

rural women in Africa on

Non timber forest

products

Support at least 200,000 producers

and entrepreneurs in eco-agriculture.

Facilitate access of 10,000 households to

• Advance wood processing

• Sustainable tourism businesses

Mentor and train at least 60,000 youth in new jobs

Restore landscapes through massive tree planting and integrated agroforest stands for food security and carbon markets

A transformation plan for 2024

Core $50M

$300 M ~ . 11% GD

2024Local output

2034$ 1-3 Billions

Projects

2034Local economic growth

& Investments

$ 100 M

Design, test & deploy Investment Ready – Climate Aware Landscapes with coalition of private-public partners

Thank you

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