Step 7: Develop an enabling environment to implement a more coordinated approach
An IES package combines public programmes, private sector investment and civil society initiatives. Each finances activities that achieve their own objective, while working together, towards mutually beneficial landscape-level sustainable management.
e.g. A breed-improvement initiative working in an area where land is required to be set aside for water conservation purposes: The breed-improvement initiative reaches its goal by providing improved breeds to farmers and by targeting farmers who need to set aside land. This acts as an incentive for farmers to set aside land, while maintaining their farm productivity, and also works towards increasing water availability at a landscape level.
E.g. Rio Rural Partnership
The Rio Rural Partnership illustrates how multiple public programmes, private sector investments and civil society initiatives can provide both short- and long-term incentives to support farmers transition to and implement sustainable agricultural practices to support conservation.
Key questions to ask
- How can public programmes, private sector investment and civil society initiatives be better integrated?
- What are the policies or institutions that can facilitate, or block, the coordination of agri-envrionmental institutions?
- How can such blockages be overcome?
- What institutions or initiatives could be used as an umbrella initiative to facilitate a more coordinated approach?
- What policy or institutional changes are required to implement a more coordinated approach?
- How can private sector investment be integrated into the financing of an IES package?
- What is needed to enable/ encourage their engagement?
- What policy blockages may prevent this?
What institutions or regulations can facilitate and support this?
What are the financial mechanisms that IES can offer to facilitate the transfer of resources between differen administrative areas, public sector, private investment and civil society initiatives?
What policy or institutional changes are required to support greater integration of private sector investment?
Expertise needed
Expertise needed
- Capacity to see programmes, investments or initiatives could be linked beyond their own objectives
- Facilitator to lead policy- and decision-makers in discussions about improving the coordination and combination of public programmes, private sector investment and civil society initiatives
- Policy expert, with a particular focus on agro-environmental policies
- Communications expertise to raise awareness on policy issues and build the business case to increase private sector engagement