business engagement in integrated approaches to sustainable development
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Business Engagement in Integrated Landscape Approaches
Pan African Business and Biodiversity Forum
Louis WertzOctober 9, 2015
Integrated Landscape Initiatives (ILIs)
• Multi-Objective• Multi-
Stakeholder• Spatial Planning
of Land Use• Ecosystem-
service/Nat Cap driven
• Incl. Biodiversity
• Incl. Business• Beyond Farms
and Fences• Shared interest
in long-term sustainability
Needs AssessmentPrivate sector engagement by SLWM projects and other landscape initiatives was missing.
• What was preventing it from happening?
Only 8% of African ILIs report private sector partners.(Number is much higher among survey respondents)
Understand the Private Sector78% can easily describe the value proposition of integrated landscape management.
Yet only 25% could clearly communicate that value to potential private sector partners.
68% “understand the priorities of the private sector”
Missing Materials
DO YOU HAVE MATERIALS FOR COMMUNICATING THE VALUE OF YOUR WORK WITH THE PRIVATE SECTOR?
Business-focused Tools• Risk and
profitability assessment tools, were used by an average of only 20% of respondents.
only 20% use private sector related tools
Private Sector Value Addition• HAVE YOU
RECEIVED TRAINING FOR IMPLEMENTING TOOLS USED IN PROJECTS INVOLVING THE PRIVATE SECTOR?
Materials for Private Sector EngagementPartnerships needed to train landscape managers
Materials for Private Sector EngagementPartnerships needed to train landscape managers
THANK YOUTo continue the conversation contact me at [email protected]