This presentation by Louise Buck outlines the points covered in the parallel session on Strengthening Capacities for Collaborative Landscape Management in Africa at the LPFN in Africa Conference #LPFNinAfrica on July 2, 2014. (Photos in this presentation are courtesy of Neil Palmer, CIAT, CIMMYT, Lee Gross, EcoAgriculture Partners, Bernand Gagnon, Eileen Delhi and John Picken)

1. Strengthening Capacities for
Collaborative Landscape
Management in Africa
Louise Buck, EcoAgriculture
Partners and Cornell University

2. Introduction
• Integrated management of rural landscapes is a
preferred way to satisfy human demands for
resources in ways that sustain ecosystems and
improve livelihood security and equity.
Working from a landscape
perspective requires a broad
spectrum of capacities.

3. Capacities, Landscape Capacities
and Capacity Development
Capacities
• Knowledge:
understanding from a
theoretical perspective
• Skill: applying knowledge
in real life
• Attitude: shapes
decisions, actions and
behavior based on
values, beliefs and
paradigms that drive
them
Photo: CIMMYT

4. Landscape Capacities
• Technical know-how
• Ability to consider landscapes as elements of
food, livelihood and ecosystem service
systems
• Feeling for spatial processes, inter-disciplinary
team work, complex stakeholder learning and
decision-making and local circumstances

5. Landscape Capacity Development
• Training
• Long term engagement in landscapes
• On the job facilitated collaborative learning
• Landscape experience elsewhere to help
think “outside the box”
Photo: Neil Palmer, CIAT

6. Landscape Capacity Development Activities
Design, support,
facilitation of multi-
stakeholder
learning
Organizational and
institutional
support
Training Mentoring
Training of trainersAdvisory supportCoaching
Action research
and action learning
Farmer field
schools
Other vehicles for
learning

7. Cross-Landscape Learning Activities
• Study tours
• Dialogues and learning exchanges
• Web-based resource portals
• E-groups
• International training and encounters
offered by global knowledge providers
such as universities and knowledge
institutes
Photo: Neil Palmer, CIAT

8. Landscape Capacity Development:
Findings from Recent Studies
• Integrated landscape initiatives for African
agriculture, development and conservation: a
region-wide assessment examines 87 ILIs in 33
African countries
• Provides insight into contexts and challenges
of diverse ILIs and lessons learned regarding
capacity development

9. Region-Wide Assessment of ILIs
• Producer groups and NGOs drive most ILIs.
• Most ILIs invest in improving landscape
planning, coordination and governance.
• Many ILIs invest in developing capacities in
agriculture production and conservation
management practices.
Photo: John Picken

10. NACOMA Investment in Capacity
Development
• Integrated coastal management (ICM) strategy
called for large scale capacity development
• Awareness raising on influence of different
stakeholder groups
• Educating stakeholders on principles of ICM
• Building neutral platform
• Developing skills in coordination and rapport
building

11. Capacity Development Challenges
• Coordinating stakeholders
• Building trust
• Reducing conflict
• Working in unsupportive policy frameworks
Photo: Lee Gross, EcoAgriculture Partners

12. Capacity Development Needs
• Improve private sector
engagement
• Improve government
support and leadership
• Improve knowledge
sharing and exchange
• Improve multi-
stakeholder
mechanisms and
governance
Photo: Neil Palmer, CIAT

13. Conclusions from ILI Assessment and
Other Studies
• Technical management capacities relatively
easy to develop
• Cross-cutting capacities related to
stakeholder management, leadership and
governance highly in demand
Photo: Bernard Gagnon

14. Key Action Areas for Landscape
Capacity Development
• Curriculum development for
new breed of landscape
professionals
• Government support and
leadership
• Multi-stakeholder
mechanisms & governance
• Farmer engagement
• Private sector engagement
Photo: Neil Palmer, CIAT

15. Potential Action Steps
• Analyze approaches, methods and results of
current capacity development initiatives.
• Assess potential for building entrepreneurial
landscapes.
• Form a “global landscape academy.”
Photo: Eileen Delhi

16. Springboards for Action
• Draw from the many groups across Africa who are
developing tools and programs to enhance
capacity for landscape management
• Participate in Wageningen UR Center for
Development Innovation l/s learning events
• Engage with LPFN Working Group on Landscape
Strengthening

17. Further Springboards for Action
Photo: Neil Palmer, CIAT
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