1.
BIODIVERSITY MAINSTREAMING
SUCCESS
Lessons Learnt from the African
Leadership Group
Monipher Musasa
Environmental Affairs Department, Malawi

2.
University of Cambridge Mphil in Conservation
Leadership

3.
Leadership in Biodiversity Mainstreaming
• Cooperation, communication and leadership is important for effective
mainstreaming

4.
LESSONS LEARNT FROM ALG
Shared effort, shared vision
A type of leadership where relationships other than those built from
hierarchy can be nurtured and still constitute leadership

5.
Lessons Learnt
• Social learning
enhances common
knowledge, awareness
and skills
• Learning and leadership
groups at country level

6.
Lessons Learnt
• Tools and guidance produced
influence processes at
international level
• Ability to relate biodiversity-
development linkages to a range
of stakeholders

7.
Lessons Learnt…..
windows of opportunity provide avenues for making
business cases for biodiversity
Knowing when to connect and mobilize stakeholders, creating the right links at
the right time around the right issues is important for conservation

8.
Lessons Learnt…..
• Making the case for
mainstreaming requires
information in different
forms depending on the
target audience
• Continuous stakeholder
engagement to understand
sources of influence
• Lack of active
communication amongst
members
• Leadership within ALG

9.
“The key to successful leadership is influence…
not authority”....Kenneth H. Blanchard

10.
“The key to successful leadership is influence…
not authority”....Kenneth H. Blanchard