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Public-Private Multi-Party Collaboration

Meetings, field visits and seminars to bring parties together

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Local government authorities and a few private parties are involved in the trade. Collaboration is greatly appreciated which is the key to the success of the stormwater trade.

Public and private parties have the willingness to collaborate for a common goal, which is to better utilize stormwater as a resource, save tap water usage, and reduce the costs such as landscape irrigation.

Conferences, seminars, and meetings were arranged to allow learning and discussions on building the stormwater trading platform.

Since this is something new in China, international experience and case studies were introduced by technical committee experts which help the parties understand the common goals and evenly reach the agreements.

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Stormwater Public Education and Outreach

Poster - Education near stormwater harvesting site

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Stormwater Harvesting Site with Educational Information

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At the early stage of the trading platform planning, public education and outreach were conducted to promote the Sponge City concept and to introduce trade.

Many local community residents come to visit and learn, which stimulated the residents' interest in the utilization of rainwater resources.

Public seminars and meetings near the site have also been arranged to meet the needs of different parties, from local residents to professionals. The community rainwater collection system has signs, posters, and billboards designed for local residences' and students' environmental education.

It takes time for the local residents to learn new things. Sponge City is a new concept in China, and so is the stormwater trade. Public education and outreach need to be planned before the design and construction of facilities, so the residents can be noted at the very beginning from the design, construction, and operations.

It is also important to have educational materials near some demonstration sites to introduce Sponge City and rainwater harvesting, etc.

In some communities in Changsha, this effort has been implemented at the very beginning of the Sponge City initiative, which greatly allows the stormwater trade being progressed smoothly.

Residents of the local community who participated in the transaction expressed their support for rainwater harvesting, reuse, and trades.

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Application of resilience strategies in Madidi

Madidi understands that tourism is a sustainable activity that generates social, economic, and natural benefits for the protected area. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to apply planning processes to resume these activities. After the COVID-19 pandemic, many of the activities in the tourism sector were impacted and this caused a slowdown in tourism activities.

The level of organization is maintained and meets the goals and establishes priorities to continue promoting tourism in the area. These activities maintain a high level of participation by the local population.
The government promotes a reorganization of tourism activities, promoting the participation of other productive sectors.
It reduces the high personnel turnover that generates gaps and creates uncertainty in management.

The pandemic was a fortuitous problem that generated diverse impacts at different scales in the area. Although Madidi is willing and able to deal with complex problems, this extraordinary situation taught us to have a Plan B as a recovery measure, which requires great efforts and regrouping capacity, and these actions are based on an adaptive model of territorial management that allows us to manage sensitive but also complex aspects.

Strategic alliances between the beneficiaries of tourism in Madidi

The Madidi National Park and Integrated Management Natural Area coordinates with the Vice-Ministry of Tourism, under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and local entities to prioritize this activity as a strategy for local and regional development, in addition to the recovery of the development vision and the use of natural, scenic and cultural values.

The institutions maintain a common vision based on nature conservation.
Institutional conditions are in place to promote tourism as a local development strategy.

Strategic alliances in the area have been strengthened with a vision of tourism-driven development; this process is implemented with the participation of various stakeholders from different sectors, which has allowed for the planning of activities at different scales and scopes.
The planning processes were established with a broad participation of the territorial actors, once they achieve a common objective, the context conditions were generated to work in a sectorial manner, in this case tourism, since with common objectives the search for different sources of funds is carried out and a common vision is established to have an impact in the medium and long term.
Conservation objectives are very important when supporting development processes such as tourism. The main criterion to achieve conservation can be tourism, seen as a means to obtain tools and conditions establishing a context to conserve the protected area.

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Monitoring

Documentation and dissemination of results

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Farmer managed natural regeneration management

A family managing a FMNR stand

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This is a landscape approach where farmers leave deliberately selected native tree species on their farm land either as tree stand or as co-exsisting with crops or both. The farmer manages the trees in such a way that they do not deprive crops of the growing factors. Otherwise the trees in the farm lands improve the soil fertility and structure, protect soil from erosion while supplies wood energy and livestock fodder to the farmer. The silvicultural practices include pruning, treaming, thinning and coppicing.

Availability of stumps in the farm land is an opportunity that hundreds of hactorage can be achieved within short period of time. Community involvement is almost obvious as the individual farmers become the primary beneficiaries of the technology unlike other solutions. The regenerants are independent of harsh conditions such as inadequate rains. The shoots start sprouting right in dry season as the mother stump has well established roots. Hence the technology never register unsuccessful results.

Farmer managed natural regeneration is a successful solution. As the regenerants originate from well established stumps which is native, the technology withstands unfavourable weather circumstances such just it is the promising, yielding and profiting project.

Partnerships

AREECA project officials and government interacting with Gomeza Community and pupils at Gomeza Primary School, Ntcheu, Central Malawipartners

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Although Gomeza Community used Self-drive to restore the forest reserve, the community attracted attention from government and non-governmental organisations. The partnerships led to provision of technical capacity building to the community on sivicultural aspects. Other insitutions also supported the community in their vision. This led to reduced resource need per institution to work with the community.

Accommodating
Cooperation
Joint planning

Prevent the duplication of efforts by close cooperation and joint planning

Building trust and improved networking are key elements of starting partnerships

Community Self-drive

The communities realised that they need to take actionin order achieve their dreams and support their ecosystem to retain its functions. They set up social structures and identified responsibilities in the form of positions and work plans. The community use volunteerism to carry out their duties nd drive the restoration efforts. They also formed their own by-laws to manage the Gomeza forest reserve, thereby adding not only social but also a regulatory framework set up to serve their needs.

Individual willingness
Working by-laws
Supportive local leadership (Traditional authority support)
Volunteering

Less financial inputs were needed to achieve great impacts

Community leading on conservation while government and other insitutions follow work well

Community-led initiatives more sustainable than a top-down approach

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Site selection

The species in focus was a demand for the conservationists, ecologists, biologists, etc. Thus, the importance of the target species and the habitat at the global level gave the interventions a global impact. The threatened species is a part of the global conservation action, therefore, took immediate attention.

The selection of the sites for nature-tourism was based on the type of species and habitat of global importance.

The site selected for the nature-tourism purpose plays a vital role. The site with the species and habitat of global relevance attract universal sectors.

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Replication

Another important aspect of the intervention was the ability of replication and site-specificity. These features made the interventions important for all such areas where there is a need of conservation of certain habitats and species.

The models are scalable and replicable.

The fact that the model is site-specific means there's no competition when replicated.

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Attitude of the Stakeholders

The energetic zeal and passion of the mentors and the local youth at every phase, from step one of planning to the last one of execution, could be treated as important feature in success of the interventions. The stakeholders learned about the scope of other attributes of tourism at Abu Hills. This triggered the interest of stakeholders to get involved with the tourism sector in anyway. Thus, nature tourism was popularized.

The motivation and inspirational leadership of the executing persons/ agencies.

The role and responsibility undertaken by the implementing agency or the people need to have the positive attitude with strong commitment.

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