First Regional Conference of the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100)
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__________________________________________________________________________________ First Regional Conference of the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100) 11-12 October, 2016 The ELILLY International Hotel, Addis Ababa Ethiopia WORKSHOP DOCUMENTATION Workshop Facilitation and documentation team: Jürgen Hagmann , Edward Chuma and Joe Ramaru (PICOTEAM) i Documentation for the AFR 100 Conference Addis Ababa Oct 11-12, 2016 This report attempts to document the proceedings of the First Regional Conference of the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100), held at The ELILLY International Hotel, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 11-12 October , 2016. The report is not a final synthesis, but tries to capture the conference outputs in a non-interpreted way. THIS DOCUMENTATION IS MEANT TO BE A REFERENCE DOCUMENT for all participants and is intended to provide details of what transpired during the conference. Almost all results of the working groups and plenary sessions are documented. Content of the report does not in any way reflect the position of PICOTEAM, but is a compilation of participants’ contributions. II Documentation for the AFR 100 Conference Addis Ababa Oct 11-12, 2016 TABLE OF CONTENT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...................................................................................................................................... VI FOREWORD BY THE WORKSHOP FACILITATORS .......................................................................................... IX ACRONYMS .......................................................................................................................................................... X 1. OPENING AND SETTING THE SCENE ......................................................................................................... 1 1.1. OPENING AND WELCOMING REMARKS........................................................................................................... 1 1.1.1 Opening remarks: NEPAD ....................................................................................................................... 1 1.1.2 Opening remarks: World Bank ............................................................................................................... 2 1.1.3 Opening remarks: BMZ ............................................................................................................................ 2 1.1.4 Opening remarks: BMUB ......................................................................................................................... 3 1.1.5 Opening remarks: WRI ............................................................................................................................ 4 1.1.6 Keynote address of the AFR100 conference ............................................................................................ 5 1.1.7 Official opening of the AFR100 conference ............................................................................................. 6 1.2. INTRODUCTION OF THE FACILITATION TEAM AND THEIR APPROACH ................................................................ 7 1.2.1 Facilitation principles ............................................................................................................................. 7 1.3. PARTICIPANT’S INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................... 9 1.4. PARTICIPANTS’ COMPOSITION AND STANDPOINTS .......................................................................................... 9 1.4.1 Participants’ composition- WHO IS IN THE ROOM ................................................................................ 9 1.4.2 Standpoints on provocative statements ............................................................................................... 11 1.5. UNDERSTANDING THE AGENDA OF THE CONFERENCE ................................................................................... 13 1.5.1 Anticipated outputs ............................................................................................................................... 13 1.5.2 Overall core questions for the conference to be answered ................................................................... 13 1.5.3 Programme overview ............................................................................................................................ 13 1.5.4 Open space session ................................................................................................................................ 14 2. COMMON UNDERSTANDING OF AFR 100 AND THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS .................................. 15 2.1. OVERVIEW OF AFR 100 BY NEPAD........................................................................................................... 15 2.2. EXPERIENCES WITH NATIONAL ASSESSMENTS OF RESTORATION OPPORTUNITIES AND SUPPORT FOR FLR IMPLEMENTATION ..................................................................................................................................... 18 2.2.1 Forest landscape restoration experiences in Ethiopia ......................................................................... 18 2.2.2 Restoring degraded landscapes and forest landscape restoration in Kenya. ...................................... 25 2.2.2.1 Restoring degraded landscapes ............................................................................................................... 25 2.2.2.2 Forest Landscape Restoration in Kenya ................................................................................................... 29 2.2.3 Forest landscape restoration (FLR) in Madagascar ............................................................................ 34 2.2.4 Restoration in Rwanda .......................................................................................................................... 37 2.2.5 Restoring Forest Landscapes in Niger .................................................................................................. 41 2.2.6 Update on the Malawi national forest landscape restoration assessment .......................................... 45 2.2.7 Experiences and potentials of Cameroon for the restoration of forests and forest landscapes .......... 49 3. ANALYSIS OF THE CRITICAL CHALLENGES FROM THE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES IN IMPLEMENTING FLR AT SCALE ............................................................................................................................................ 52 4. OPTIONS AND STRATEGIES TO ADDRESS CRITICAL CHALLENGES FOR IMPLEMENTATION AT SCALE IN COUNTRIES ............................................................................................................................... 54 III Documentation for the AFR 100 Conference Addis Ababa Oct 11-12, 2016 4.1. HOW TO MANAGE LAND TENURE AS AN INCENTIVE FOR EFFECTIVE RESTORATION? .......................................... 54 4.2. HOW CAN MARKETS AND VALUE CHAINS BECOME INCENTIVES AND DRIVERS FOR EFFECTIVE RESTORATION AT SCALE? ..................................................................................................................................................... 56 4.3. HOW TO CREATE INCENTIVES FOR COMMUNITY MOBILISATION IN RESTORATION? ............................................ 58 4.4. HOW TO REACH SUSTAINABLE FINANCING OF RESTORATION AT SCALE? .......................................................... 60 4.5. HOW TO MONITOR RESTORATION AT SCALE? ................................................................................................ 62 4.6. HOW TO ORGANISE AND COORDINATE EFFECTIVE RESTORATION AT SCALE AND AT DIFFERENT LEVELS? ............. 63 5. TRANSFORMATIVE ACTIONS TO ACHIEVE THE GREAT LEAP TO MILLIONS OF HA IN RESTORATION .......................................................................................................................................... 65 6. INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS: HOW IMPLEMENTATION CAN WORK EFFECTIVELY AT THE DIFFERENT LEVELS .................................................................................................................................. 66 6.1. COUNTRY LEVEL ....................................................................................................................................... 66 6.2. REGIONAL LEVEL ...................................................................................................................................... 68 6.3. GLOBAL LEVEL .......................................................................................................................................... 69 7. WRAP - UP / NEXT STEPS ........................................................................................................................ 70 8. WORKSHOP EVALUATION ....................................................................................................................... 71 9. CLOSING REMARKS .................................................................................................................................. 72 10. ANNEXES ................................................................................................................................................... 73 10.1. ANNEX 1: AFR100 CONFERENCE AGENDA AND OUTLINE .............................................................................. 73 10.2. ANNEX 2: DETAILS OF THE INPUT PRESENTATIONS AND SPEECHES/ KEY NOTES MADE DURING THE OPENING REMARKS .................................................................................................................................................