Water Land and Ecosystems (WLE): Building upon the success of the CPWF

Uniting Agriculture and Nature for Poverty Reduction

What WLE believes can be achieved working together

§  Sustainable intensification provides a pathway for agriculture productivity, human development and resilient landscapes.

Why

§  Increasing environmental degradation.

§  Rising risks associated with the current growth agenda.

§  Rapidly rising human demands and inequity – we need to meet the human agenda •  We are consuming natural capital

in a way that is not sustainable and equitable.

§  Recognition that sustainability agenda is at the heart of development.

How

§  Influencing development choices to improve sustainable agricultural intensification through nature based solutions by providing: •  Evidence-base knowledge that

sustainable intensification provides improved food security, equity, livelihoods and healthy landscapes.

•  Integrated solutions to better manage risk related to rising shocks.

•  Models and scenarios to understand trade-offs and synergies.

•  Institutional innovations to address inequity and gender imbalances, while promoting inclusive and sustainable growth.

WLEs uniqueness

§  We are not about protecting ecosystem for the sake of ecosystem. §  We support human development by working with ecosystems and

people. §  Ecosystems as the foundation for agriculture productivity, equity,

livelihoods and prosperity. §  We go beyond the paradigm of minimizing the impacts of

agriculture. §  We are exploring the interface between rural and urban systems. §  Working across sectors to provide integrated solutions to reverse

land and water degradation. §  Combining an ecological approach with a natural resource

management approach to build resilience.

Focal Region Flagships.

Focal Region (FR) Flagship: Integrating ecosystem solutions into policy and investments. §  Builds on the CPWF model in the priority four focal regions i.e.

Niger/Volta, Nile/East Africa corridor, Ganges and the Greater Mekong.

§  Calls for EOI have gone out – completely open and competitive – over 300 EOI received. Writeshops to be convened in each FR.

§  Minimum of 40% of all funding to go to National and Regional Partners.

§  20% of funding to go to equity (gender, youth, marginalized groups) research.

§  Key integrating factor within and across regions is a focus on ecosystem services within agricultural landscapes.

§  New model in the Mekong where WLE and a donor (DFAT) are combining their resources to build a significant investment over three years.

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