Tag: partnerships
Modalities of scaling-up landcare and NRM in the Philippines: creating space for public-private partnerships at the local level: case study presented to the Technical Workshop on Methodologies, Organization and Management of Global Partnership Programmes,
The debate about sustainable development brought profound challenges in bridging the gaps between science and development. While technological advancement has been successfully generated from scientific research, it continues to face the great diversity of circumstances constraining the delivery of potential benefits. This constraint requires institutional and methodological innovations where development-oriented research can be anchored. Moreover, this debate is constructed from a combination of participants, structures, cultures and processes— hence, it has become more contestable, dynamic and complex. The complex nature of this debate necessitates the construction of social systems, capable of strengthening the orientation by which research and development have to be implemented. This experience is supported by the theories of Funtowicz and Ravetz in their propositions to develop a new “post-normal” science based on extended peer communities and extended facts (Funtowicz and Ravetz, 1993). ICRAF’s Research and Development Programme is now focused at developing technical, institutional and policy innovations, in an Integrated Natural Resource Management Research (INRM) Framework. The scale of analysis of our work begins at the farm and household level—to the village and municipal levels—and, to the provincial and national levels (annex 1). The links at various levels are clearly defined along with the strategic interplay of technical and social researches at each level. This Research and Development Framework illustrates a multi-tiered stakeholder interaction in building relationships and partnerships, in project implementation, and in project evaluation. The Landcare Program is a specific example of a partnership initiative at the local level, and is the subject of this case study.
Company–community partnership outgrower schemes in forestry plantations in Indonesia: an alternative to conventional rehabilitation programmes
Indonesia has a considerable area of degraded land requiring rehabilitation. However, most rehabilitation projects in the past have been government driven, depending on public funding (ndonesian government and international donors), and have focused mainly on technical aspects. As a result people living in surrounding targeted areas are not adopting rehabilitation techniques. Innovative approcahes are necessary if the objectives of a rehabilitation programme are to be met while providing benefits to private companies and local people. The findings of a study of outgrower schemes in Indonesian timber plantations suggested that company–community partnerships could be an alternative for implementing rehabilitation programmes. The partnership arrangement over a 10- to 45- year period is based on a contract. It states the rights and duties of each party in establishing a forestry plantation and the benefit-sharing agreement at the time of harvest. The schemes take place on logged-over forests and idle lands, mostly Imperata grasslands. The partnership provides opportunities for forestry plantation companies to play a social role and rehabilitate degraded resources. It also provides job opportunities to local people and incomes from harvested timber at the end of each rotation under a long-term contract.
Partnership in the tropical forest margins: a 20-year journey in search of Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn
This book aims to: Summarize policy relevant concepts and synthesize data developed from research work in the tropics over the last 20 years, Provide a linkage of the brief`s contents with national and/or international events that have characterized the global policy landscape during ASB’s existence, Assess the nature of policy decisions made and outcomes relating to the themes covered by the ASB briefs, Provide a pattern of approaches that have/ have not worked and can be applied to current and future policy frameworks and Highlight impact of the briefs at science, policy and donor levels.
Third Cross Border Stakeholder Dialogue Platform
Under the Auspices of the IGAD BMP project, ICRAF holds annual cross border meeting to foster cross border collaboration on biodiversity conservation. This year, ICRAF held the third cross border stakeholder dialogue platform which was well attended by the cross border participants and yielded insightful recommendation to the project steering committee.
A Report of KLISC Monitoring and Evaluation Workshop
Through the Strategic Grant awarded by INASP to the Kenya Libraries & Information Services Consortium (KLISC), the KLISC Strategic Grant Committee was mandated by KLISC to organize a three-day Workshop on Monitoring and Evaluation of E-resources as part of the activities aimed at strengthening KLISC. This is in line with the Consortium’s strategic objectives contained in its five-year Strategic Plan (2014-2019).
A Report of KLISC Strategic Management / Leadership Workshop
The Kenya Libraries & Information Services Consortium Strategic Grants Committee was mandated by KLISC and the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) to organize a two-day Workshop aimed at strengthening the capacity of KLISC leadership. This is in line with the Consortium’s strategic objectives contained in its five-year Strategic Plan (2014-2019). Consequently, the Committee held a couple of meetings between January 2016 when a Proposal was drafted and submitted to INASP, and 22nd – 23rd October 3, 2016 when the Workshop was held at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA), Nairobi (Kenya).
AHI program brief
he African Highlands Initiative (AHI) is a regional research program that brings together national and international researchexpertise, local government representatives, and developmentpartners that strongly share a commitment to work with localcommunities to improve their liveli-hoods while revers-ing natural resource degradation.AHI, a program of the Association forStrengthening Agricultural Re-search in East and Central Africa(ASARECA), was initiated in 1995 and is hosted by ICRAFas one of the CGIAR’s ecoregional programs.
Alternatives to slash and burn
Tropical forests in Asia, Africa and Latin America are being rapidly transformed through slash-and-burn. Traditionally, slash-and-burn is a system for land use — shifting cultiva-tion — based on alternating food cropping periods with periods of regrowth of vegetation (fallow). Increasing population pressure has shortened the fallow periods dramatically, making the system unsustainable in many areas. Slash-and-burn is also a technique to convert forests into permanent agricultural land, or into other land use practices, including large-scale tree crops (rubber, oil palm, timber). In Asia, shifting cultivation is becoming less common and much of the slash-and-burn is related to permanent conversion of forests by smallholders, large operators and government-sponsored resettlement projects. The consequences of this are devastating, in terms of climate change, soil erosion and degradation, watershed degradation and loss of biodiversity. The Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Programme is built around two issues — the global environ-mental effects of slash-and-burn and the technological and policy options to alleviate those effects. The programme assumes that the development of agroforestry-based forms of intensified landuse as an alternative to slash-and-burn can help to alleviate poverty and improve human welfare. By identifying alternatives to slash-and-burn and providing options from which farmers can choose, the ASB programme aims to provide benefits at a range of scales, from household to global. ASB is a system-wide initiative of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. Since it began in 1992, the programme has developed into a consortium of nine inter-national research centres and 62 national research institutes, universities and other government and non-government organizations. ICRAF is the convening centre for ASB because there is a close link between agroforestry options and alternatives to unsustainable slash-and-burn practices. ICRAF’s contributes to the ASB Programme in its research in the three humid ecoregions of Latin America, Southeast Asia and the humid lowlands of west Africa.
Scoping Study Report on Potential Value Chains and Institutional Arrangements in Solwezi, Zambia
The scoping study was conducted in Solwezi district in Northwestern Zambia. The aim of the scoping study was to provide an overview of i) the institutional arrangements in terms of partnerships at the local, national and regional level that will enable value chain innovation platform development and ii) to identify and characterize potential value chains and market information delivery systems that could be developed through innovation platforms that would work best for smallholder farmers including women and young people.