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Getting Governance Right?

Getting Governance Right?. Landscape Governance Mapping a Tool for Social Resilience. SCAPES PROGRAM. S ustainable C onservation A pproaches in P riority E cosystems. $US 15 million over 5 years 8 transboundary landscapes and 1 policy Additional funds for cross- partner learning

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Getting Governance Right?

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  1. Getting Governance Right? Landscape Governance Mapping a Tool for Social Resilience

  2. SCAPES PROGRAM Sustainable Conservation Approaches in Priority Ecosystems • $US 15 million over 5 years • 8 transboundary landscapes and 1 policy • Additional funds for cross- partner learning • How to measure and monitor governance

  3. Why a governance tool? • Speed up learning about governance systems. • Most successful conservation comes about because of changes in governance. • Identify governance weaknesses that if strengthened could lead to improved conservation. • Assess governance at a landscape scale.

  4. Please offer feedback Andy Davis Wildlife Conservation Society adavis@mail.org

  5. Why a governance tool? What can happen when a governance system fails

  6. Why a governance tool? Train community ecoguards to counter poaching

  7. Why a governance tool? Ecoguards patrolling but wildlife increasing in the market

  8. Why a governance tool? Ecoguards patrolling but not as often as planned

  9. Why a governance tool? Community had legitimate authority but lacked the power

  10. Why a governance tool? What was the remedy?

  11. What we need • A basic understanding of governance systems at a landscape or seascape scale. • An easy to use tool to: • Identify how to strengthen governance • Monitor whether investments in governance are making a difference

  12. What is NR governance? The process by which stakeholder groups decide what is and is not acceptable in terms of natural resource use in a given area, as well as how rules will be enforced.

  13. Governance effectiveness “The ability of a natural resource governance group to make decisions, implement actions, and enforce rules that ensure the sustainability of the natural resources under their control.”

  14. A pathway to effectiveness Five objectives • Identify all governance groups in the landscape, • Map their jurisdictions, • Assess their strengths and weaknesses, • Analyze opportunities for improving governance, and • Invest in changing governance systems to improve conservation.

  15. How is this tool useful? • Helps a conservation group assess governance across a landscape and identify entry points to improve effectiveness • Helps governance groups better understand what influences their ability to govern effectively

  16. Steps in doing the assessment Expert knowledge focus groups • Map • Select most influential groups • Local definition of good governance • Assess governance strengths/weaknesses Information analysis and reporting • Narrative • Ranking legitimacy, capacity and power • Identify leverage points for improving governance of the landscape.

  17. Types of governance groups Multinat’l agency Private Sector Civil Society

  18. Governance inventory Oil palm plantation Logging Concession No-take zone Logging Concession Indigenous reserve Foraging Village National Park Farmland Different land and resource uses with different objectives and different management rules Who has the formal or customary rights to manage which land and resources?

  19. Overlapping jurisdiction Oil palm plantation Logging Concession No-take zone Logging Concession Indigenous reserve Foraging Village National Park Farmland National Wildlife Authority has jurisdiction over the use of wildlife in foraging, no-take zone, and logging concessions

  20. Overlapping jurisdiction Oil palm plantation Logging Concession No-take zone Logging Concession Indigenous reserve Foraging Village National Park Farmland Ministry of Minerals and Mining has jurisdiction over all subsurface resources

  21. Contested authority Oil palm plantation No-take zone Logging Concession Indigenous reserve Foraging Village National Park Farmland Indigenous group claims one of the logging concessions as part of their traditional territory

  22. Governance inventory Let’s Discuss

  23. Assessing Governance What are governance strengths & weaknesses

  24. Good governance attributes Three core attributes of long-term, effective, environmental governance • Legitimacy • Capacity • Power

  25. Good governance attributes Legitimacy - stakeholders perceive that the governance group is governing in their interests Let’s Discuss Authority Accountability Participation Fairness

  26. Good governance attributes Capacity – the ability to manage natural resources sustainably Let’s Discuss Knowledge and skills Resources Regulatory framework Motivation

  27. Good governance attributes Power – the level of influence a governance group has to effect sustainable natural resource management • How easily can another group or individual countermand the decisions and actions of a governance body? Let’s Discuss

  28. Doing the assessment (1) Governance knowledge focus groups • Governance inventory • Select most influential groups • Local definition of good governance • Assess governance strengths/weaknesses

  29. Doing the assessment (2) Information analysis and reporting • Narrative of strengths and weaknesses • Ranking groups’ legitimacy, capacity and power • Identify leverage points for improving governance of the landscape.

  30. Step 1: Governance inventory List all groups that are responsible for management of one or more types of natural resource within a defined space within the landscape or seascape

  31. Step 2: Influence assessment Identify those groups with the most influence over the largest area within the landscape or seascape

  32. Step 2: Influence assessment Identify those groups with the most influence over the largest area within the landscape or seascape • Maybe ask each focus group member to vote for their top 3 choices

  33. Step 3: Local perspective How well are the most influential groups governing? • What is working? • What is not? • Why?

  34. Step 4: Standardizing Map local perspective of governance strengths and weaknesses onto standard attributes • Legitimacy • Capacity • Power

  35. Step 5: Analysis and options • Write up a detailed narrative of the strengths and weaknesses of the most influential groups • You can also rank each group from -2 (weak) to +2 (strong)

  36. Step 5: Analysis and options • From the analysis brainstorm how the governance system might be improved

  37. Tracking changes over time Scoring each group allows you to easily see how their strengths and weaknesses might change over time and with your technical assistance

  38. When to use this tool? • Starting work in a new area • Working with a group to build their governance abilities • Understanding how a new actor influences the governance system Let’s Discuss

  39. Download and test the tool http://frameweb.org/CommunityBrowser.aspx?id=6151&view=k Any Questions?

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