Multi-stakeholder partnerships are most effective at landscape scale, where land use decisions clearly have interrelated impacts on the performance of ecosystems and economies. One example of a multi-stakeholder partnership at the landscape level that will support an integrated and coordinated approach to achieving multiple SDGs is called Integrated Landscape Initiatives. These initiatives are defined by inclusive, participatory, and collaborative resource governance.
Integrated Landscape Management (ILM) offers a promising means of implementation of the SDGs.
They ensure that local priorities guide project selection, that there are clear mechanisms for resolving resource conflicts, and that investors and landscape stakeholders can capture synergies from coordination. Investing in multi-stakeholder integrated landscape initiatives is relatively inexpensive when one considers the long-term impacts that sound policies and strategies to implement sustainable agriculture and food systems, achieve food security, and improve nutrition can have not only on poverty eradication and ending hunger, but also on rural development, climate change, biodiversity, natural resource management, and gender equality.
These kinds of landscape partnerships are on the rise. A series of surveys by the LPFN to locate and survey these landscape initiatives in Africa, Latin America and Asia identified 365 such partnerships. Meanwhile, a growing number of public and private funds are now seeking to invest in integrated landscapes. The tools and strategies evolving for ILM explicitly focus on realizing synergies among different landscape objectives, and identifying and managing trade-offs, in the context of democratic and inclusive governance.
This meeting will provide an opportunity for Member State representatives and other stakeholders to learn more about, exchange views on, and ask questions about investing in Integrated Landscape Initiatives, and to explore how these initiatives might be used as a means of implementation for the SDGs in the post-2015 development agenda.
The Ethiopian experience developing an integrated land use investment program.
Mechanisms for investment in integrated landscapes.
The Global Environmental Facility (GEF) Integrated Approach Pilot (IAP) program on Resilience and Climate Change.
Key question: How can national and international financing sources better support integrated landscape approaches that support the achievement of multiple SDGs?
