Presented by Kees Swaans (ILRI) at the National Platform Meeting on Land and Water Management in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, 19 December 2011.

1. National Platform on Land and Water Management:
Objectives, Functions and Structures
K. Swaans, ILRI
2nd National Platform on Land and Water management
ILRI, Addis Ababa, 19 December 2011

2. Vision and objectives
2. Create optimal conditions for
1. Improve sectoral integration,
(demand driven) capacity in
communication and cross-
research, development, academia
institutional learning
and policy development
“Ensure a healthy, sustainable, and equitable use
and management of natural resources for
improved productivity, livelihoods and ecosystem
services in Ethiopia” (8 April, 2011)
4. Provide an enabling environment
3. To improve access to knowledge
for sustainable and equitable value-
and resources
added production systems and
functional market links

3. Functions
• Information sharing – a place for dialogue
• Bring experiences together from different sectors
• Serving as a knowledge base by documenting experiences, lessons, best
practices
• Communicate experiences, lessons, best practices to other actors
• Link best practices to capacity building through training and education
• Improve co-ordination amongst organizations within and across sectors
through harmonized approaches
• Ensure institutional linkages between local, regional, national level (and
flows between them)
• Link ‘talking’ to action; bring experiences and lessons together into
integrated models that can be tested, replicated, scaled out and up
• Create interface between practitioners and policy makers; highlight issues
that are important to policy
• Serving as stepping stone for the formation of regional platforms and link
to other platforms in synergistic way (e.g. SLM platform)

4. Bringing actors together
National
International
Donors Policy makers
Research institutes
Universities
Water Private
Land sector
Regional
Government NRM
CBOs
NGOs
Other?
Local

5. Structure
Steering Committee Links to
policy
Support NBDC
National Platform meeting
Theme Theme Theme Theme Theme Theme Theme
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Members programs’, projects, activities

6. Learning Alliance
National
Learning
Scaling out
Regional
Local level
Other Districts Sites within Other sites within
district district