FARMS4Biodiversity WP4: Innovative Platforms and Stakeholder Engagement
Leads: Sekhar Nagothu (Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research)
Concept: Multi-Actor Platforms bring diverse stakeholders together in a formal process of interactive learning, sharing, empowerment, and collaborative governance to discuss opportunities and obstacles to a desired set of goals. Emerging research suggests that by building trust and dialogue among diverse stakeholders with interconnected but potentially divergent interests or viewpoints, Multi-Actor Platforms promote resilience and innovation in the face of risk, complexity, and uncertainty.
Objective: To explore new, innovative institutional and policy frameworks to enable use of agroecological practices to reduce biodiversity loss, sustain ecosystem services and improve climate change adaptation.
Methodology/Approach:
Convene a Multi-Actor Platform including
representatives from Malawi’s National Biodiversity Steering Committee,
National Council on Environment, Technical Committee on the Environment,
Agriculture Department Divisions, District Agriculture Committee, District
Agriculture Development Offices, and other relevant committees as well as local
farmers and traditional authorities.
Conduct multi-actor analysis at the early stage
of the project to design an operational structure, to characterize and/or
classify the actors, their roles, and the institutional opportunities and
constraints they will bring to the Multi-Actor Platform.
Organize bi-annual Multi-Actor Platform dialogue
meetings, where we will share results, solicit feedback, and devise strategies
to further disseminate project findings.
Expected Results and Use:
One established and operational Multi-Actor
Platform
Institutional and policy frameworks on the use
of agroecological practices to reduce biodiversity loss and sustain ecosystem
services.
A police brief with inputs from WP3 and
Multi-Actor Platform members.
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FARMS4Biodiversity WP4: Innovative Platforms and Stakeholder Engagement
Leads: Sekhar Nagothu (Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research)
Concept: Multi-Actor Platforms bring diverse stakeholders together in a formal process of interactive learning, sharing, empowerment, and collaborative governance to discuss opportunities and obstacles to a desired set of goals. Emerging research suggests that by building trust and dialogue among diverse stakeholders with interconnected but potentially divergent interests or viewpoints, Multi-Actor Platforms promote resilience and innovation in the face of risk, complexity, and uncertainty.
Objective: To explore new, innovative institutional and policy frameworks to enable use of agroecological practices to reduce biodiversity loss, sustain ecosystem services and improve climate change adaptation.
Methodology/Approach:
Expected Results and Use:
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