Step 6: Institutional mapping of existing public, private and civil society financed inventives
To identify:
- Short- and long-term incentives currently provided by existing public programmes and private sector investment
- Synergies and gaps for financing incentives
- Opportunities to engage with public programmes and private sector investments that have the potential to provide incentives
- Potential sources of finance to support best practices (Click to enlarge)
Key questions to ask
Existing incentives:
- Which of the short- and long-term incentives are needed for:
- Readiness?
- Implementation?
- Self-sustaining financing?
- How are these incentives currently financed?
- From existing:
- Public programmes
- Private sector investment
- Civil society initiatives
- What type of incentives do they provide and which practices do they support?
- Who can access these incentives?
What is the process for farmers to access the incentives offered?
- From existing:
- Are there perverse incentives that conflict with conservation and sustainable production objectives?
- What is the conditionality, if any, for farmers to receive incentives?
- Mode: input/ output based
- Frequency of reward: upon compliance/ periodically/ once
- Enforcement of conditionality, if any?
Additional incentives:
- What additional incentives are needed:
- Where can incentives be used together to support a wider sustainable landscape approach? For different stages:
- Readiness: Restoration and conservation of degraded ecosystems, e.g. reforestation, terracing, etc.
- Implementation: Sustainable agricultural practices, e.g. organic fertilizer use, improved crop varieties, etc.
- Self-sustained financing: Access to higher-value markets, development of value chain, diversification of livelihoods, etc.
- Is there a trusted institution that could coordinate multiple incentives and enforce their conditionality?
- What opportunities are there for potential financing of incentives from additional public programme and private sector engagement?