Multistakeholder processes in forest landscape restoration

Multi-Stakeholder Processes (MSPs) Herman Brouwer Webinar for Global Forest Landscape Restoration Network 17 november 2010 Centre for Development Innovation

1. Welcome!

2. Overview presentation
What are MSPs?
Why use MSPs in forest landscape restoration?
Characteristics of MSPs
Practical tips and insights on how to design and facilitate MSPs
Q&A, discussion

3. A working definition of MSPs
Terminology: Stakeholder vs. Actor; Processes vs. Platforms vs. Networks vs. Change Strategies…
Current thinking on MSPs is informed by system theory and insights about complexity
Multi-Stakeholder processes are: “a part of governance in which different stakeholders are identified, usually through representatives, invited and assisted to interact in a deliberative forum that focuses on:
Sharing knowledge and perspectives
Generating and examining options
Informing and shaping negotiations and decisions
(source: IUCN 2010)

4. Characteristics of an MSP
To be used for ‘complex’ problems – which one stakeholder alone cannot solve
Involves a diversity of sectors and scales
Importance of building a shared understanding of the issue – respecting different perspectives
Credible convenors are key to the legitimacy of the MSP
High quality process facilitation needed to have enough deliberation for learning, and creating new options
Power and conflict should be recognized and incorporated in MSP design
Final goal must always be: producing workable recommendations for action

5. What Multi-Stakeholder Processes do Source: Steve Waddell (2010) www.networkingaction.net Mobilizing voice and increasing pressure upon specific stakeholders who are blocking (actively or inactively) change Advocating Combining forces to aggregate their impact and create a more efficient funding vehicle than any one could on their own Financing Developing indices, assessments, and/or certification processes Measuring/certifying Developing and disseminating new knowledge and tools with research, piloting new approaches, and training Learning, research, capacity devt. Bringing together an emerging system of diverse stakeholders to generate coherence in strategies System organizing Creating events that generate shared understanding and vision Shared visioning Goal Function

6. Timeframe and sequence of hypothetical MSP Source: IUCN (2010) Negotiate

7. Example: Tool for mapping stakeholder interests in FLR Source: Natasha de Bats, Marcus Granz, Madelon Lohbeck, Lotty Nijhuis and Rinchen Yangzom - Wageningen UR, the Netherlands, 2010.

8. More resources on MSPs
Resource portal on MSPs of Wageningen CDI
http://portals.wi.wur.nl/msp
IUCN (2010) Negotiate: Reaching agreements over water. John Dore et al.
www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/water/resources/toolkits/?4912/Negotiate--reaching-agreements-over-water
FAO (2005) Negotiation and mediation techniques or natural resource management. Antonia Engel, Benedikt Korf.
www.fao.org/docrep/008/a0032e/a0032e00.HTM

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