Documentation and dissemination of results

Citizen monitoring

Reviewing data

Pronatura México, A.C

Collecting data on plots

Pronatura México, A.C

Data in citizen monitoring platform

Pronatura México, A.C

The SbN citizen monitoring exercise is a useful tool in the analysis of better solution alternatives for local communities, but also to promote good governance and transparency, since it allows citizens to learn about the problems and challenges of ecosystem-based adaptation actions and to propose complementary alternatives for improving social organization, diversifying economic activities, new governance practices, among others:

to know the problems and challenges of ecosystem-based adaptation actions and the proposal of complementary alternatives for the improvement of social organization, diversification of economic activities, new governance practices, among others.
Raise realistic expectations about collective action and better understand their role as contributors to local well-being.
Recognize the relationship between adaptation to climate change and local development that responds to the needs, demands and realities of vulnerable groups.

-The Peasant Learning Communities are groups of farmers organized by agricultural sectors, whose leaders are responsible for coordinating the collection of information on the implementation of the measure and monitoring its results.

Citizen monitoring of the solution should be oriented towards recognizing :

Changes in the institutional framework of the adaptation process.
Changes in the vulnerability conditions of agricultural livelihoods (biophysical, social and economic).
Changes in the resilience conditions of livelihoods (recovery in less time, reduction of losses and damages, better knowledge of the factors that exacerbate the impacts of floods, systematization of experience, innovation and adaptive management).

To obtain favorable results, farmer leaders should be trained to:

obtain quality local information
Carefully select data according to each monitoring component.
thoroughly validate the information with the support of field technicians
structure the information based on the Datlas Platform

Implementation

Monitoring

Documentation and dissemination of results

Local

Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) with a sustainable livelihoods approach

Reforesting

Pronatura México, A.C

One of the community nurseries

Pronatura México, A.C

Delivery of plants to AbE Squadron

Pronatura México, A.C

The block shows the actions taken to establish the relationship between livelihoods and ecosystems, with emphasis on the benefits they provide: services and functions that are the most important part of the natural capital of our communities.

Capacity building on Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA)

The EbA approach oriented the analysis of livelihood vulnerability, the choice of measures of biodiversity use and ecosystem services, showing how they help people and their livelihoods to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change and indicators for monitoring the solution.

Actions in the territory

Establishment of 2 community nurseries with a production of 9,226 native plants with which 67.5 ha. of riparian zones were reforested.
Participation in the benefits derived from the restoration of riparian zones.
Community reforestation in riparian zones contributing to the health, livelihoods and well-being of local communities, taking into account the needs of women and the poor and vulnerable.

Reinforced learning that the vulnerability of livelihoods and the fragility and degradation of local ecosystems and the services and functions they provide are strongly correlated, facilitated understanding of the importance of halting the loss of biodiversity and significantly reducing its degradation and fragmentation and ensuring that these ecosystems continue to provide essential services to contribute to the well-being of the municipality's farming communities.

Keep in mind that we work with social-ecological systems, that is, with people and livelihoods linked to goods and services that are necessary to sustain life.
Valuing ecosystem services as a tool for adaptation helps to recognize the contribution ecosystems make to human well-being and to understand how they contribute to reducing the consequences of climate change impacts.
Although the EbA solution favors communities, it is necessary to establish it as part of a broader adaptation strategy that takes into account that there are social, economic and institutional conditions that exert pressure on municipal social-ecological systems and must therefore be modified to have a real impact on reducing vulnerability.

Planning phase

Implementation

Monitoring

Documentation and dissemination of results

Local

Subnational

Reforestacion riparia

Reforestacion riparia2

Institutional strengthening and governance of natural assets

Workshops with Community Work Group

Pronatura México, A.C

The purpose of this block was to build an enabling environment for political advocacy in favor of the adaptation of municipal natural and social systems that are vulnerable to current and future climate impacts. To achieve this, two components were worked on:

Enabling conditions

Workshops to integrate biodiversity values into climate change adaptation strategies and municipal development planning processes and to reduce socioeconomic and environmental conditions that exacerbate climate impacts.
Establishment of agreements and synergies between ejido, municipal, state and federal authorities, as well as education and research centers to support the integration of ecosystem-based adaptation into municipal development planning and improve governance of natural assets.

Coordination mechanisms

Consolidation of horizontal and vertical networks through consultation and working groups that facilitated the development of the adaptation process:

The Expert Working Group.
The Municipal Adaptation Council
The Community Working Group
The Peasant Learning Communities

This component is fundamental because it provides legal, technical and programmatic support to the solution, which allows it to be incorporated into municipal planning, to address an area that has not been worked on in the Municipality of Armería: the development of climate action plans, which has allowed the municipal authorities to resume their responsibilities in the area of climate change.

Building an enabling environment for the implementation of climate change adaptation measures requires several components:

using scientific knowledge to conduct vulnerability analyses of agriculture to flooding, direct pressures on riparian ecosystems, and providing advice for the development of environmental, social and gender safeguards
targeting municipal development goals that may be affected by flooding, integrating adaptation objectives and criteria into municipal planning and budgeting to provide necessary inputs for implementation of the solution
Consider ejido and community leaders as key actors in the mediation between municipal authorities and farmers' collectives that contribute to the implementation of the solution.
Including the citizen monitoring component allows for the sustainability of the measure and the empathetic and proactive involvement of the communities involved.

Documentation and dissemination of results

Local

Systematization of the information gathered

Example of risk chains constructed on the basis of participatory analysis

Resilientes :: INTA Argentina

This stage is rather a stage between the technical teams with the objective of ordering and systematizing all the information.

First, the reports are prepared, the documentation for each workshop, with a list of participants (disaggregated by age and gender), the step-by-step development of the workshop and the results recorded.
Then the components (of the climate risk concept) with their respective factors are systematized in an excel table. A review of coherence and cause-effect logic is made at the technical team level.
Then, cause-effect chains are built on the identified climate risks and based on the qualitative, descriptive analysis that was worked on with the producer families for their different production systems.

Ideally, this systematization and the chains are then taken to the communities and validated together. If this is not possible, it also helps to work with the technicians who know the territory and the situation on the ground.

Agree on common criteria for analysis and systematization among the different technical teams to arrive at comparable results.
To count on the time and motivation of the technical teams to do this post-workshop analysis.

Incorporate cause-effect chain diagrams from the first workshops and record all results and responses with this logic.
Seek a second instance for the validation of climate risks with producer families and work on their sensitization and awareness of the different components and factors.

Implementation

Documentation and dissemination of results

Review phase

Local

Institutional coordination for scaling up technological processes in family livestock farming.

The launching event of Resilient Family Farming was attended by Ministers of State and the Ambassador of the European Union in Uruguay.

Ganadería Familiar Resiliente

Researchers from INIA's Family Production Program supported the training of field technicians in the implementation of the co-innovation approach.

Ganadería Familiar Resiliente

INIA supported the systematization of the action and the creation of audiovisual products.

Ganadería Familiar Resiliente

Resilient Family Livestock was presented at events organized by the Delegation of the European Union in Uruguay.

Ganadería Familiar Resiliente

The Resilient Family Livestock project is the result of an inter-institutional articulation process that includes:

First degree family producer organizations (6 Rural Development Societies), second degree (National Commission for Rural Development - CNFR), and third degree of regional coverage (Confederation of Family Producer Organizations of MERCOSUR - COPROFAM).
The National Agricultural Research Institute (INIA), a public entity under private law.
The Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries (MGAP), a government agency that provided political backing for the development of the action.

This network interacted with other institutions such as the University of the Republic (UDELAR), the Ministry of the Environment (MA), the Uruguayan Agency for International Cooperation (AUCI), IICA and the Delegation of the European Union in Uruguay.

Previous CNFR projects with INIA and UDELAR (co-innovation in family production).
Existence of validated good livestock practices for family livestock production.
Alignment with NDCs (2017): GHG mitigation, adaptation and resilience of livestock systems to climate change.
CNFR membership in COPROFAM for scalability of co-innovation and inter-institutional articulation processes in the region.
Access to funding sources such as EUROCLIMA+.

The development of extension actions with family livestock requires an integral methodological approach such as Co-innovation.
The role of producers' organizations is key for the implementation of effective public policies in rural areas.
Good livestock practices require long terms to generate results and impacts on family systems.

Implementation

Monitoring

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National

Multi-national

Nota conceptual Webinar: El cambio climático, la innovación y la producción resiliente de alimentos en la agricultura familiar

Programa del Webinar: El cambio climático, la innovación y la producción resiliente de alimentos en la agricultura familiar

Audiovisual: Presentación del proyecto Ganadería Familiar Resiliente a la Junta…

Audiovisual: Entrevistas del Evento de Lanzamiento del proyecto Ganadería Famil…

Transmisión del Evento de lanzamiento del Proyecto Ganadería Familiar Resiliente

Transmisión del evento: El cambio climático, la innovación y la producción res…

Co-innovation as a technical assistance approach for family production

The launching event of Resilient Family Livestock Farming was attended by Ministers of the National Government and the Ambassador of the European Union in Uruguay.

Ganadería Familiar Resiliente

Researchers from INIA's Family Production Program supported the training of field technicians in the co-innovation approach.

Ganadería Familiar Resiliente

A Motor Group was formed, made up of the coordination team, leaders of the organizations, field technicians and INIA researchers, which combined face-to-face meetings with the use of virtual media.

Ganadería Familiar Resiliente

The technical team, composed of agronomists and veterinarians, made frequent visits to livestock farming families to support the implementation of good livestock practices.

Ganadería Familiar Resiliente

One of the main practices promoted was aimed at improving grazing management to promote growth and productive stability of the natural range in family livestock systems.

Ganadería Familiar Resiliente

The farm diagnostics and the discussion of the best practices to be implemented on the farms is a joint construction between the producer families and the field technicians.

Ganadería Familiar Resiliente

The technical team visited livestock farming families to systematize the process of implementing the co-innovation approach.

Ganadería Familiar Resiliente

Local organizations (Sociedades de Fomento Rural) play a key role in the discussion and dissemination of the results of good farming practices and the co-innovation approach.

Ganadería Familiar Resiliente

Virtual means were used to develop activities at the regional level with COPROFAM.

Ganadería Familiar Resiliente

A new vision of innovation must recognize farmers as agents capable of observing, discovering new ways of doing through experimentation and learning (Van der Ploeg, J.D. 1990). Instead of 'technology transfer' processes, thought should be given to improving farmers' ability to learn and experiment (Leeuwis, C. 1999). Therefore, innovations at the level of complex systems, in which the human being is an integral part, are no longer conceived as external but are developed and designed in their context of application and with the participation of those who manage the systems and make decisions (Gibbons, M. et al., 1997; Leeuwis, C. 1999). This ensures the relevance, applicability and adoption of potential solutions to the problems detected. The Resilient Family Farming project, based on previous experiences developed by INIA and CNFR, promoted joint work between producers, technicians, organizations and researchers, using the co-innovation approach, to generate a cyclical process of characterization and diagnosis, implementation, monitoring and evaluation that would allow innovation to emerge from interactive learning among the actors involved.

Background of CNFR - INIA articulation in the implementation of the co-innovation approach.

The willingness of the stakeholders (producer families, leaders of local organizations, field technicians, CNFR coordinating team and INIA researchers) to implement the plan of activities in the context of a sanitary emergency.

Good national Internet connectivity, the chain of local - national - regional and institutional links, and strict compliance with sanitary protocols.

The articulation between producers' organizations (CNFR and its local grassroots entities), INIA and the University of the Republic, demonstrated sufficient capacities to implement Co-innovation as an appropriate approach for technical assistance to family farmers, facilitating the implementation of good livestock practices that improve their climate resilience and are aligned with public policies aimed at adaptation and mitigation of climate change in livestock farming in Uruguay.

Virtual modalities proved to be a valid and effective tool for communication between the parties, even with some existing limitations in rural territories.

Organizations can facilitate effective communication processes with rural families, using locally available capacities and tools. Although face-to-face activities generate unique and non-transferable experiential processes, the strategies implemented in the project have been effective in an adverse context such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Infografía del proyecto Ganadería Familiar Resiliente

Audiovisual: Fase de Diagnósticos de campo en predios ganaderos del proyecto "G…

Audiovisual: Fase de Rediseño predial e implementación de buenas prácticas gana…

Project oversight, evaluation and future planning

Project oversight plays an important role in implementing lessons learned, and there is a constant flow of information between our team in Congo and the UK office. Beyond the core team access to other key professionals is also continuously available, such as our UK veterinary team, should their advice be needed. Setting effective baselines at the start of the project is an effective tool when evaluating progress. The project has no defined end date, and future planning is always under review. Information and data gained through oversight and evaluation are key elements of future planning.

Good attention to detail and disciplined approach to record keeping. Good communication. The ability to be innovative and adapt to new, or changing, situations.

Well trained and motivated staff ensure accurate data collection. Knowledge of local people is a valuable resource. It is important to build on successful elements of the project and equally important to analyse and adjust for the less successful so that future planning can benefit from both.

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Review phase

Local

Access to technology

Placing camera traps in the reserve

The Aspinall Foundation

SMART training session for the team

The Aspinall Foundation

Camera traps are an important tool for monitoring and gathering information, and have been used by the team for a number of years. More recently we have been able to train, and equip patrol teams in using the Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART).

Patrol team members that are willing to learn and want to advance their skills, combined with an effective training programme for the use of different types of technology.

Having access to the right technological tools increases efficiency of data collection and allows for more time efficient analysis. To take full advantage of the more advanced technology, such as SMART patrols which require a learning curve, effective training is required to ensure each patrol has a minimum of one fully-trained team member.

Implementation

Monitoring

Documentation and dissemination of results

Review phase

Local

Call for Guides and Captains

Authorized credential

Irma Gonzalez Lopez

Call issued by the authorities to accredit guides and captains to work in Protected Areas.

Guides and Captains who will obtain a certification.

Obtaining fundamental knowledge of the PA, as well as legislation and tourism standards.

Tourism service providers interested in learning.

Change in the behavior of guides and captains by acquiring knowledge about the PA, its zoning, legislation, biological importance of the species and their behavior.

Appropriation of the PA as their own.

Implementation

Documentation and dissemination of results

Global

Convocatoria

Strategic alliances with different partners

High-level meeting in Panama with strategic allies to minimize human-jaguar conflict

Fundación Yaguará Panamá

The regent in Ambiente is the Ministry of Environment and we have been working with them since 1998, but in 2017 we signed a cooperation agreement to minimize the jaguar-human conflict through a preventive management project to seek solutions. We have also achieved an alliance with USFWS to work farm management plans, anti-predation measures, monitoring with cameras and collars with the jaguar. We work with the Small Grants Program/UNDP/GEF and are working on a camera trap monitoring project in Darien and support/advice to community-based organizations, so that communities know how to solve and take to another level what is happening in their areas. Nat Geo supports us in the most extensive camera trap monitoring project in Panama in Darien, in addition to helping us in outreach and communications at the international level. With the Howard Huge Medical Institute (HHMI) we work in scientific research with camera traps, in addition to disseminating, communicating and educating through their digital platforms what we find in the Darien National Park. Other important alliances are the Ministry of Tourism, ANAGAN, ISA, University of Panama, UNEP. We work with some indigenous groups and more than 10 community-based organizations distributed throughout the country.

Each and every one of the alliances are important, since some of them work on similar but not the same topics, and all of them are intertwined so that these projects are medium and long term, and those that involve the communities can be very long term projects, and we are talking about a minimum of 6 years. And for this to happen, the alliances with people, communities, decision makers and the executing agency, donors, there must be trust and be able to work as a team and we have achieved this with everyone. Never belittle a person who wants to help.

Each and every one of the alliances are important, since some of them work on similar but not the same topics, and all of them are intertwined so that these projects are medium and long term, and those that involve the communities can be very long term projects, and we are talking about a minimum of 6 to 10 years of duration. And for this to happen, the alliances with the people, communities, decision-makers and executing agency, donors, must have trust and be able to work as a team, and we have achieved this with everyone. Never underestimate a person in the community who wants to help and always listen and then look for ways to move forward.

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National

Global