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Central America

South America

Supporting transboundary dialogue on Marine Spatial Planning towards a sustainable blue economy for the Southeast Pacific

MSPglobal

Initiative

Planning, reporting and monitoring stakeholder participation and communication

Strengthening stakeholders’ capacities

Analyzing current conditions of the marine environment and maritime uses

Building scenarios for MSP and sustainable blue economy

Showcasing key results through a simplified and interactive storytelling tool

Supporting the formulation of institutional recommendations at regional scale

B5: Implementation of EbA solutions with private sector financing

Líderes empresariales y organizaciones de la sociedad civil explorando sitios para la implementación de soluciones AbE.

GIZ-ADAPTUR

Cárcavas artesanales en Lomas Dimas como una solución AbE para reducir la vulnerabilidad de inundación en San Miguel de Allende.

Salvemos al Río Laja A.C.

Restauración de ecosistemas del semidesierto por mujeres del municipio de San Miguel de Allende.

Salvemos al Río Laja A.C.

Represas artesanales en Las Tinajas del municipio de San Miguel de Allende.

Salvemos al Río Laja A.C.

The implementation of EbA solutions is a result of a long process, where resources, knowledge, and leadership of different sectors are united by a common goal. Another crucial element is to have a financing mechanism that allowed the funding of proposed projects. To evaluate and prioritize different adaptation options in the three destinations, the project applied over 30 cost-benefit analyses and had several workshops with local technical experts.

As a result, in San Miguel de Allende for example, a new Green Fund was established by the Ministry of Environment that channeled private sector fees and contributions towards EbA measures. In addition, the money mobilized through the Green Fund was matched with money from an existing Program for Payments of Ecosystem Services (PES) run by the National Forestry Commission (CONAFOR).

Through this co-financing scheme, the city was able to implement five EbA solutions wich include handmade dams and forest restoration accordingly with level curves of the site to ensure sufficient drinking water in the future. All solutions were implemented with the cooperation of local NGOs (like Salvemos al Río Laja A.C.) and communities.

Because of the pandemic, the other proposed EbA solutions in the other sites were not implemented.

Trust and cooperation structures between several sectors: local municipalities, tourism industry leaders and civil society.
Existence of leaders from the public, private and civil society sector that acted as change agents and joined forces united by a common goal.
Presence of strong civil society organizations with a lot of technical experience in environmental projects.
Existence of a financial mechanism that allowed to mobilize public and private funding for EbA measures.

Technical information should be followed by a communication strategy oriented to sensitize the private sector and promote multi-sectoral dialogue for the financing process.
In addition to scientific data, it is helpful to create an emotional connection between decision makers and their natural capital. For ADAPTUR, one very successful strategy was to organize trips for business leaders to the countryside, where they could see negative climate effects to their homeland with their own eyes.
Invest time in building trust and cooperation structures between local actors from different sectors that are important for the development of your project´s EbA solutions.
Helping local actors to use successful EbA solutions to promote their work, organization or business creates another incentive for participation and may motivate other actors to join the project.

Implementation

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Fondo Verde de San Miguel de Allende

Video de las soluciones AbE

Programa de Pago por Servicios Ambientales (PSA)

Co-operative farming for sustainable livelihood

Brooms made by the beneficiaries

Bighnaharta Nepal

An institutional support is required for the beneficiaries to promote the products they make through this solution, in local, regional and national markets. Since a single farmer cannot meet the quantity demand of the market and the distributors look for bulk quantity, a functioning co-operative has to be formed at the local level. This cooperation serves the purpose of collecting the products, negotiating the price with the distributor, supervising the manufacturing and distributing the profits.

There is a high demand for brooms and associated products in the local, national and international market and distributors always buy in bulk. By applying cooperative farming methods, it will be easier for a single farmer to supply their product and get a reasonable rate for it. Instead of approaching single farmers, distributers negotiate prices with the cooperative committee, which also guarantees more stable and profitable prices for their members.

The leadership of the cooperative committee should be entrusted to persons in the community who are knowledgeable about the market.
The co-operative should be made bipartisan and fair to everyone.

Alliances

Various alliances had to be build to ensure the success of the programme. Collaboration was necessarry between the following stakeholders:

Local and provincial government and administrative authorities
Social groups like youth clubs, women groups, agriculture committees
Forest and land protection committes
Local, regional and national private sector businesses
Various experts, researchers and scholars in this sector

Since this solution involves multi-level activities from planning, implementation, conservation, monitoring, marketing and promoting, it becomes essential to bring all the stakeholders together and interlink them through common goals and their ascribed responsibilities by the state and the society.

- Stakeholders don't always have the same interests and goals

- Conflict between the stakeholders in the alliances are common because of their interests

- The thoroughness of legal aspects while dealing with the local bureaucracy is needed

- The awareness of greater good has to be evoked to all the stake holders, time and again

Planning phase

Implementation

Monitoring

Documentation and dissemination of results

Community participation

People of the community

Bighnaharta Nepal

The communities living in thes project landscapes are directly involved in all phases of this project: household selection, area(s) selection, plantation and supervision of all activities. The project promotes active participation and involvement in decision-making processes.

Community sensitization, to make them aware of the problem
Reliability on indigenous knowledge about nature based solutions
Understanding that the project is in the interest of national and global donors, but should ultimately be in-line with the local, regional and national priorities
Trust between the community and the organization had to be developed

During the inception of this project we relied heavily and in some cases solely on the local's knowlede and age old indegenious craft. But during the process we came to know that some of the componenets were irelevant and had to be balanced with some modern techniques and technologies too.

We also learned that, the interest of the community and the local political will doesnt always match.

Benefits generated to communities and livelihood improved

Community forestry in Nepal has brought a number of benefits including an increase in income. It has helped to fight against illegal logging by putting clear rules in place on timber access and a strong system of forest monitoring. Community livelihoods have also improved with easier access to firewood and fodder and better health care and energy access, for example through money from ecotourism and subsidies for renewable energy.

Community forestry shows traits of political, financial, and ecological sustainability, including emergence of a strong legal and regulatory framework, and robust civil society institutions and networks.

A continuing challenge is to ensure equitable distribution of benefits to women and marginalized groups.

The immediate livelihood benefits derived by rural households bolster strong collective action wherein local communities actively and sustainably manage forest resources. Community forests also became the source of diversified investment capital and raw material for new market-oriented livelihoods.

Documentation and dissemination of results

Communities empowered and trusted

Women in community forests

The Guardien

Conservation oriented community forestry is essentially a participatory process that requires strong technical assistance on both policy and implementation. Expanding the property rights of local communities over resources and empowering them with knowledge, information, resources, technologies, and required skills for forest management and institution building are basic building blocks for the community forestry. Gender and equity concerns are addressed from the program design so that the poor, women, and marginalized receive fair benefits from the program.

Legal rights over the resources, institutions, capacity, trust, and leadership,

It evolved from the community level, and is based on traditional uses of the forest by communities. This bottom-up approach is a great strength of the Nepalese model as it gives ownership and leadership to communities to decide both where to create a community forest and how to run it.

Documentation and dissemination of results

Forestry sector of Nepal

South Asia

Successfully conserving critical corridors and bottlenecks using the community-based management.

Ishwari Prasad

Poudel

Communities empowered and trusted

Benefits generated to communities and livelihood improved

South Asia

Successfully conserving critical corridors and bottlenecks using the community-based management.

Ishwari Prasad

Poudel

Communities empowered and trusted

Benefits generated to communities and livelihood improved

Coral Restoration

Coral measurements

Simon Dowling

Only govermentally approved people are allowed to conduct these activities, however we do involved non-approved divers and non divers to assist in Coral restoration to help with maintenance work that does not involve collection or transplantation of any coral fragments (like cleaning coral tags etc)

Coral fragments are collected around the reef edge. These "corals of opportunity" are broken fragments that will enventually die if we do not collect them. Once collected, they are transplanted to artificial structures to help increase the coral diversity and population.

Some corals are adopted as part of our Adopt A Coral Program.The adopted coral is transplanted and named, then monitored, photographed and measured every 3 months. The data is published online and is freely available for research into coral growth. This program also helps provide data into coral growth and health states.

Goverment approval
Social media
Environmentally minded individuals
Logistics (scuba diving, dive boats)

The actual process of transplantation is quite simple. The other factors that we did not take in to account initially is the time that is required to keep the areas clean of fouling organisms, collect measurement data and photography records of corals. All the post care maintenance is vitally important to secure a high survival rate of coral transplants.

Implementation

Monitoring

Documentation and dissemination of results

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