Join us vicariously to find out about the practical experiences gathered, the success factors identified, and the barriers explored when practitioners and donors funding and implementing integrated natural resource management initiatives in the SE Asian context met to learn and unlearn from eachother.
Agenda
Presentations were kept to a minimum! The workshop used a highly participatory methodology called ‘Liberating Structures’ that emphasises ideation. We designed a more engaging, multi-directional approach to showcase the landscape experiences of participants, and to share knowledge and reflections.
Day 1: Wednesday November 27
| Time | Session No. | Item | Description | |
| 8:30 | 1 | Workshop opening | Welcome, setting the scene. Introduction to LFF and workshop objectives | |
| 9:00 | 2 | The purpose of ILM | What do we think landscapes are? What does integration look like? Why do they matter? What are their benefits? | |
| 9:45 | 3 | Clarifying ILM | How would you explain ILM to a five year old? | |
| 10:30 | Refreshments and group photo | |||
| 11:00 | 4 | Landscape motivations | Lessons we’ve learned: Why do we think that ILM is a best-bet for the planet, its people and the environment? Why do we commit to the concept? How do we maintain our energy levels despite the frustrations? | |
| 12.00 | Lunch | |||
| 13.15 | 5 | Landscape challenges! | Lessons we’ve learned: What challenges have we encountered while implementing ILM? How did we overcome them? | |
| 15.00 | Refreshments | |||
| 15.30 | 6 | Attraction or distraction (Part 1): advancing the leveraging ILM thinking and practice | How can landscape approaches contribute to addressing climate change, the SDGs, and global agendas? What opportunities are there for us to advance ILM thinking and solutions? | |
| 17.00 | Welcome reception | |||
Day 2: Thursday November 28
| Time | Session No. | Item | Description | |
| 9.00 | 7 | Check-in | What did you learn or unlearn yesterday? | |
| 9:30 | 8 | Attraction or distraction (Part 2): advancing the leveraging ILM thinking and practice | The Summit for the Future, UNCBD COP16 and UNFCCC COP29 have happened. What do this mean for ILM, and what are they possibly missing? What opportunities are there for us to advance ILM thinking and solutions? | |
| 11.00 | Refreshments | |||
| 11.30 | 9 | Levers for landscapes | ILM Finance. What are our opportunities to advance or scale ILM thinking and practices? What levers can we pull? | |
| 12.15 | Lunch | |||
| 13.30 | 10 | Landscape success! | Lessons we’ve learned: What does ILM ‘success’ look like? From our experience, what has been a success? Why did it happen? How did we get there? How did we know we got there? | |
| 15.30-17:00 | 11 | The ingredients of ILM success | What do we need to achieve and scale ILM success? What skills do we need? What technical capabilities and governance? | |
Day 3: Friday November 29
| Time | Session No. | Item | Description | |
| 9.00 | 12 | Check-in | What did you learn or unlearn yesterday? What is your one key unanswered question? | |
| 9:30 | 13 | Now what? The power of systems | Participants consider the role of systems thinking in their work, and LFF shares some of its experience using this. | |
| 11.00 | Refreshments | |||
| 11.30-12:00 | 14 | Closing session | A brief reflection and feedback session to gather input from all participants | |
Background
Landscapes approaches are not new, and include variants such as river basin planning, ecosystems planning, conservation agriculture, and many others. Common to all of these approaches is the call for integration, emerging out of the recognition that silos are a major problem in Natural Resources Management (NRM) and governance.
The idea of Integrated Landscapes Management ( ILM) remains broad, and there is no single way to ‘do’ ILM. At its most basic, ILM calls for using landscapes as a conceptual unit around which integration can be achieved and management implemented. Nevertheless, operationalising ILM remains a challenge and robust evidence of the impact of ILM approaches scarce.
Many landscapes approaches have been attempted in SE Asia, and these efforts have generated a valuable body of knowledge and experience. These include several LFF projects that are now nearing completion.
Justification
Problems of silo formation are persistent in common NRM approaches and raise significant questions for traditional governance structures and institutions, with important implications for the accomplishment of the Sustainable Development Goals and climate change mitigation. It is important to consider and gather practical experience around integrated landscape approaches – successes, challenges and strategies – to add substance to the idea of ILM and how it can be achieved and implemented in practice, and how this approach can lead to more balanced and coherent outcomes and impact. This workshop sets out to derive practical experiences of implementing landscape approach across a variety of SEA contexts, to address the objectives stated below.
Objectives
- To identify success factors where ILM ambitions have been achieved.
- To explore the barriers to integration, and strategies to overcome these.
- To showcase Southeast Asian landscape experiences.
- To lend substance to the ILM concept as an effective planning and implementation framework given emerging local, regional and global geopolitical realities.
Guiding questions
- Why does integration matter?
- How can we integrate in a landscape context?
- How can different land use values be reconciled under a landscapes approach?
- How does ILM equip us to deal with complexity?
- What is ‘scale’ and what is its relevance to ILM implementation?
- In what ways can systems-based approaches inform landscape management?
- How can state vs community vs private sector interests be addressed in a landscape setting?
- How can landscape approaches contribute to climate change mitigation and/or accomplishing the SDGs and other relevant global and regional goals?
- What implications does the concept (and practice) of ILM have for natural resource governance and land and resource tenure?
Participant criteria
- Diverse stakeholder groups: participants should represent different sectors to ensure multi-disciplinary approach
- Should include representations from community-based organizations, government agencies, NGOs, private sector and academia.
- Participants should have experience in ILM or landscape management, be familiar with and willing to share key lessons and challenges of implementation during the forum.
- Diverse geographical representation will be considered to bring a uniquely regional perspective to the summit.
- LFF project teams will be the key target group, while other ILM practitioners are invited to send at maximum 2 persons per organization.
- We would want to ensure a balanced representation of women, men encouraging gender inclusive discussions.
- Participants should demonstrate strong collaboration and communication skills, and come to the summit with an open mind and be ready to engage in a highly interactive and participatory event, guided by the liberating structures methodology.
