integrated landscape management in kenya - wb land and poverty conference

Integrated Landscape

Management in Kenya

The state of the policy environment

KRISTA HEINER*, SETH SHAMES*, EMILY SPIEGEL**

*EcoAgriculture Partners, USA

**Duke Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, USA

kheiner@ecoagriculture.org

2016 WORLD BANK CONFERENCE

ON LAND AND POVERTY

The World Bank

Washington, DC

March 15, 2016

Outline

• Background

• Policy assessment framework and

methodology

• Results

• Recommendations

2015 International Commitments

How do we implement these goals?

“Implementing integrated landscape

management as a part of sustainable

development strategies will be critical

to securing the future we want”

Achim Steiner

Director General

United Nations

Environment Programme

What is a landscape?

A complex mosaic, composed of…

Socio-cultural + economic systems Ecological systems

Rooted in its history

Varying in size from hundreds to tens of thousands of

hectares

Integrated Landscape

Management

Long-term collaboration among different groups

of land managers and stakeholders to realize

multiple objectives from the landscape

ILM in Africa and Kenya

Africa: 87 ILIs in 33 countries

Lari sub-county, Kenya

4 key enabling conditions

1. Stakeholder engagement and cooperation

2. Appropriate legal and regulatory

framework

3. Knowledge and capacity to plan and

manage at a landscape scale

4. Financing and/or incentives

Assessment methodology

15 laws12 policies &

strategies

8 draft policies 8 bills

Reviewed

21 Indicators

Analyzed

Interviewed

40 key informants

Results

Stakeholder cooperation and

coordination

• County Integrated

Development

Plans and

landscape-scale

initiatives promote

coordination, but

agencies

competitive

Appropriate legal and

regulatory framework

• Devolution of

power, but

some

overlapping

mandates and

incoherent laws

Knowledge and capacity

• Research and

extension in

sustainable

farming

practices, but

spatial

information

lacking

Investment and incentives

• Public

investment in

water

catchments,

but most

financing

remains

sectoral

Recommendations

• Improve inter-ministerial and interagency

cooperation

• Harmonize roles, laws across sectors and

levels of government

• Build capacity for intergovernmental

coordination at the county level

• Catalyze ILM-friendly investments

Thank you!

Krista Heiner, EcoAgriculture Partners

krheiner@ecoagriculture.org

www.ecoagriculture.org