Operationalize National CSA Policies
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Announcing a new training curriculum to help sub-national decision makers operationalize national climate smart agriculture policies. Presented at 'GACSA: Catalyzing Action Toward Climate Smart Agriculture' September 27, 2018, New York City, Climate Week.
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Operationalize National CSA Policies
- 1. Putting Climate Smart Agriculture Policies to Work in Landscapes Training curriculum to help sub-national decision makers operationalize national climate smart agriculture policies Dr. Louise Buck Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University Director of Collaborative Management, EcoAgriculture Partners GACSA: Catalyzing Action Toward Climate Smart Agriculture – September 27, 2018 Climate Week NYC
- 2. Overview • Partners • Background/experience • Needs Assessment • Goals, Scope and Audience of the Curriculum • Approach • Structure/Outline • Timeline/Next Steps
- 3. Funding provided by USDA.
- 4. Background and History UC Davis and Cornell University World-leading agriculture and climate change research insts. EcoAgriculture Partners 15 years of creating tools for climate smart landscapes www.ecoagriculture.org
- 5. Needs Assessment • USAID, FAO, World Bank, CCAFS/CGIAR, DFID and GIZ • Gap = sub-national policy translation support
- 6. Goals, Scope & Audience • Sub-national CSA program and policy leaders • Integrated planning of CSA • Supports training courses provided by others
- 7. Approach • In-person or online training courses • Modular • Facilitator’s Guide
- 8. Structure/Outline Module 1: Introduction to CSA as an approach to integrated agriculture and climate change planning Module 2: Building a collaborative CSA plan and planning process for your landscape or jurisdiction Module 3: Linking climate knowledge and information with CSA decisions and planning
- 9. Structure/Outline Module 4: Building an enabling environment for CSA Module 5: On-farm adaptation planning and implementation Module 6: Monitoring and Evaluation
- 10. Next Steps • Pilot training • Partners for delivery/feedback
- 11. Contacts Louise Buck, EcoAgriculture Partners and Cornell University lbuck@ecoagriculture.org Steven Ostoja, UC Davis and USDA California Climate Hub smostoja@ucdavis.edu Jim Hill, UC Davis jehill@ucdavis.edu Caitlin Corner-Dolloff, USDA Foreign Agriculture Service Caitlin.Corner-Dolloff@fas.usda.gov
Editor's Notes
- I probably don’t need to tell the people in this room about the credentials or resident expertise to draw on at Cornell University or UC Davis, as it relates to CSA. In case you haven’t heard of EcoAgriculture Partners, we have more than 15 years of experience analyzing and supporting integrated landscape management: we’ve built training materials on climate smart landscapes for a variety of audiences, along with support tools, methods, and frameworks on related issues such as smallholder agricultural carbon projects, collaborative spatial planning, multi-objective landscape performance monitoring & evaluation, and integrated landscape investment and finance.
- We focused the needs assessment on six major international development organizations with CSA programs: USAID, FAO, World Bank, CCAFS/CGs, DFID and GIZ. Our needs assessment concluded that a curriculum designed explicitly to help sub-national decision-makers operationalize existing CSA policy at a landscape scale is not currently available from any of the organizations we reviewed. This audience in particular represents a gap in available training resources.
- The curriculum is intended to build the capacities of sub-national Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) program and policy leaders to plan CSA in ways that integrate farm and landscape level action and generate the policy support needed for effective planning and practice. Training specifically on Integrated CSA initiatives: Such integrated initiatives stand to positively impact agricultural productivity, ecological conservation, livelihood security and institutional capacity for cross-sectoral coordination, as well as climate change adaptation and mitigation. Through training courses built around the curriculum, [delivered by a network of partners] CSA leaders will gain knowledge, skills and values that enable them to facilitate CSA planning processes and develop plans that can bring about the multiple desired impacts of CSA.
- The curriculum and facilitator’s guide are organized in modules and lessons that enable the training team to select content they consider most relevant to the programs, audiences, training needs and learning objectives they seek to address in conducting a course on CSA planning. Course content and structure are conveyed in slide decks organized around the lessons in each module. Allows instructors to select the delivery model that works best for their audience – online, in-person, or a combination. Group learning activities, worksheets, handouts and case studies enrich the lessons. A detailed training facilitator’s guide supports qualified trainers to deliver high-quality courses.
- Module 1: Introduction to CSA as an approach to integrated agriculture and climate change planning Lesson 1.1: Climate Smart Agriculture: What, why, where? Lesson 1.2: Drivers of CSA Lesson 1.3: Farm Level CSA Lesson 1.4: Landscape scale CSA Module 2: Building a collaborative CSA plan and planning process for your landscape or jurisdiction Lesson 2.1: Introduction to Landscape Planning Cycle Lesson 2.2: Building the Multi-stakeholder Coalition Lesson 2.3: Developing a Shared Understanding of your Landscape Lesson 2.4: Designing a Collaborative Action Plan Lesson 2.5: Implementing Landscape Interventions Lesson 2.6: Monitoring and Evaluation Module 3: Linking climate knowledge and information with CSA decisions and planning Lesson 3.1: Understanding the effects of climate change on agriculture Lesson 3.2: Contextualizing climate data/information for specific places
- Module 4: Building an enabling environment for CSA Lesson 4.1: The characteristics for strong enabling environment Lesson 4.2.a: Public policy support for CSA Lesson 4.2.b: Promoting private investment in CSA Lesson 4.3: CSA policy institutions Lesson 4.4: Sources of finance for Climate Smart Agriculture Module 5: On-farm adaptation planning and implementation Lesson 5.1: Principles of adaptation and CSA Lesson 5.2: Introduction to farm-scale CSA strategies and approaches Lesson 5.3: Developing farm-scale CSA plans Module 6: Monitoring and Evaluation Lesson 6.1: Introduction to monitoring and evaluation for CSA Lesson 6.2: Identifying and measuring effective monitoring variables Lesson 6.3: Evaluating monitoring data and presenting results
- Describe the thinking about the current location of the pilot (Seth says TZ) our eagerness to work with others to run trainings with their organizations or train trainers to deliver this at training or research institutes. Describe the process for incorporating feedback/lessons from the pilot into the curriculum/modules. Translation opportunities?! USDA Foreign Agricultural Service does provide a nice global network of partners for potential delivery, but we don’t want to be limited to that, and so are happy to discuss training institution partnerships or other means of getting more trainers up and running giving the course.