Engaging Business at a Landscape Level Lessons from the Shared Resources, Joint Solutions (SRJS) Programme

Engaging business at a landscape level Lessons from the Shared Resources, Joint Solutions (SRJS) Programme

A BioBiz Exchange / PANORAMA webinar 24 September 2020

IUCN Business & Biodiversity Programme with:

Panorama Solution: Bringing business and conservation actors together in a convivial café space, Éco-Bénin Sharing and scaling upsolutions

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• PANORAMA is a partnership promoting examples of inspiring, replicable solutions across a range of conservation and development topics and challenges – to enable cross-sectoral learning and upscaling of successes. • To learn more or contribute your own solution on PANORAMA, please visit the business engagement thematic community here.

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Questions or comments? Send to us here and we can respond directly and/or respond to all. Agenda 1. Welcome and introduction with Nadine McCormick, IUCN’s Business and Biodiversity Programme 2. Presentation: Lessons learned from the Shared Resources, Joint Solutions programme with Romie Goedicke from the IUCN Netherlands Committee 3. Case study: Enhancing corporate biodiversity action in the Beninese landscape with Isdeen Omolere and Gautier Amoussou from Eco-Bénin, and Maximin Djondo from Benin Environment & Education Society 4. Case study: Engaging business for sustainable sugar production in Uganda with Pauline Nantongo from Ecotrust 5. Q&A with presenters and participants 6. Summary results of the IUCN survey on influencing business in the conservation community, with Nadine McCormick and Ella Diarra 7. Closing remarks and feedback

5 Our Speakers Pauline Nantongo Isdeen Omolere GautierAmoussou Maximin Djondo

Benin Environment and Eco-Bénin ECOTRUST Eco-Bénin Education Society @ecobenin @ECOTRUST_Ug @ecobenin @bees_ong

NadineMcCormick Romie Goedicke Ella Diarra

IUCN IUCN NL IUCN @IUCN_business @IUCNNL @IUCN_business 4 Poll #1: Which type of Poll #2: What is your experience on organisation are you with? engaging business? – Civil society/NGO –national level - No experience – NGO/IO – international level - A little experience – Government - Lots of experience – Business/consultancy – Other Poll #3: What is your biggest challenge right now? - Lack of opportunities - Designing a strategy - Lack of resources and capacity - Other (please specify using the chat function)

5 Questions or comments?

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29 Agenda 1. Welcome and introduction with Nadine McCormick, IUCN’s Business and Biodiversity Programme 2. Presentation: Lessons learned from the Shared Resources, Joint Solutions programme, with Romie Goedicke from the IUCN Netherlands Committee 3. Case study: Enhancing corporate biodiversity action in the Beninese landscape with Isdeen Omolere and Gautier Amoussou from Eco-Bénin, and Maximin Djondo from Benin Environment & Education Society 4. Case study: Engaging business for sustainable sugar production in Uganda, with Pauline Nantongo from Ecotrust 5. Q&A with presenters and participants 6. Presentation: Summary results of the IUCN survey on influencing business in the conservation community, with Nadine McCormick and Ella Diarra 7. Closing remarks and feedback

9 SHARED RESOURCES, JOINT SOLUTIONS

PARTNERSHIPS AND ADVOCACY FOR CLIMATE RESILIENCE, WATER AND FOOD SECURITY

A just world that values and conserves nature.

GEOGRAPHICAL SCOPE

LANDSCAPES IN WHICH WATER PROVISIONING, FOOD SECURITY, CLIMATE RESILIENCE AND BIODIVERSITY ARE UNDER PRESSURE 9 ecoregions in16 countries around the world

South-America Africa Asia • Paraguay • Uganda • Philippines • Bolivia • Tanzania • Indonesia • Guyana • Madagascar • Cambodia • Suriname • Zambia • Myanmar • Mozambique • Ghana • Benin • Burkina Faso BUSINESS ENGAGEMENT CAPACITY

150+ colleagues trained in 2-3 days capacity building course 350 desired changes in company, 50+ attended Advanced negotiations module financial institution and government policy. 25+ attended Online participation in extractives module 40+ attended financial safeguards partner meeting (with VBDO). 12 engagements are featured in the 75+ attended Capacity building on SEA/EIA process collection of top tips and case studies. (with Com. MER)

13 Get ready

• Understand the business context and situation • Consult with and gain mandate from the local communities • Join forces with organisations that have similar goals

• “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” – Sun Tzu, the Art of War Time to engage

• Identify a champion in the company • Use effective dialogue & good communications channels to build trust • Demonstrate the benefits to business

• “Trust comes on foot, but leaves on horseback”. - Johan Thorbecke, Dutch politician. Scaling up

• Institutionalize your agreement • Celebrate success to inspire further action • Capture & integrate best practices to ensure longevity

• “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African proverb Questions or comments?

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29 Agenda 1. Welcome and introduction with Nadine McCormick, IUCN’s Business and Biodiversity Programme 2. Presentation: Lessons learned from the Shared Resources, Joint Solutions programme with Romie Goedicke from the IUCN Netherlands Committee 3. Case study: Enhancing corporate biodiversity action in the Beninese landscape, with Isdeen Omolere and Gautier Amoussou from Eco-Bénin, and Maximin Djondo from Benin Environment & Education Society 4. Case study: Engaging business for sustainable sugar production in Uganda, with Pauline Nantongo from Ecotrust 5. Q&A with presenters and participants 6. Presentation: Summary results of the IUCN survey on influencing business in the conservation community, with Nadine McCormick and Ella Diarra 7. Closing remarks and feedback 18 Enhancing corporate biodiversity action in the Beninese landscape

Isdeen Omolere (Environmental engineer and programme manager at Eco-Benin) Gautier Amoussou (Coordinator of Eco-Benin) Maximin Djondo (Director of Benin Environment and Education Society)

Panorama Solution: Engaging a cement multinational and its subsidiaries to enhance and broaden their biodiversity conservation efforts in Benin Context and Challenges

The Landscape • Mono river transboundary reserve important for nature and people • Challenges included land degradation linked to quarries

A potential champion? The challenge - Heidelberg Cement’s international existing commitment and experience on biodiversity not matched by the local subsidiaries, CIMBénin and SCANTogo Solution and impacts

• Quarry Life Awards in 2018 as a catalyst for the change • Create opportunities for in-depth and informative discussions on conservation issues and opportunities for action, and organize work shops and site visits.

IMPACTS • Collaboration for the conservation and protection of endangered wildlife species • Collaboration on future biodiversity conservation actions. Working with Heidelberg to implement the state-adopted CSR Charter. • BEES and Eco-Benin have also signed an agreement with ScanTogo and CIMBénin, for the planting of 20,000 plants in the Bouche du Roy reserve by Eco-Bénin (photo). • Other companies are inspired to also know more about biodiversity issues and how they can contribute Success factors

• Participatory dialogues • Coaching from the IUCN partner • E.g. Business impacts and dependencies on nature • Use existing contacts and networks. • In-company champion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvyu0 onehhQ&feature=emb_title Agenda 1. Welcome and introduction with Nadine McCormick, IUCN’s Business and Biodiversity Programme 2. Presentation: Lessons learned from the Shared Resources, Joint Solutions programme with Romie Goedicke from the IUCN Netherlands Committee 3. Case study: Enhancing corporate biodiversity action in the Beninese landscape, with Isdeen Omolere and Gautier Amoussou from Eco-Bénin, and Maximin Djondo from Benin Environment & Education Society 4. Case study: Engaging business for sustainable sugar production in Uganda, with Pauline Nantongo from Ecotrust 5. Q&A with presenters and participants 6. Summary results of the IUCN survey on influencing business in the conservation community, with Nadine McCormick and Ella Diarra 7. Closing remarks and feedback

23 Engaging business for sustainable sugar production in Uganda

ECOTRUST Working with Kinyara Sugar

Panorama Solution: Engaging business for sustainable sugar production in Uganda Context Location: Forest & Wetlands of the Northern Albertine Rift; 52% of Africa’s bird species; 39% of its mammal species; 19% of its amphibians; 14% of its reptiles; and 14% of its plants (Plumptre et al., 2007). Threats : Insufficient water resources, wetland degradation, deforestation, Fires & Encroachment on company resources Challenges: • Balancing competing needs for sugarcane expansion and provision of Environmental Services (Water Resources risks and Opportunities, Biodiversity conservation, Large scale commercial farming & Subsistence farming • A strategy that reconciles nature, community well-being, and profits both on and beyond the business-owned farm. Solution Impacts The Kiiha partnership: a platform • Re-focus Kinyara’s strategy DWRM, GIZ, Kinyara and Ecotrust • from expansion of land for production, to • To discuss sustainability risks and gaps production efficiency in sugarcane development • Improve engagement with their value chains • Use recommendations to address • Adoption of the Kiiha Catchment identified gaps and attain socio- Management Plan regulation as a tool to economic and environmental guide their investments in that landscape standards of sugarcane production • Supporting actions to safeguard biodiversity Building blocks

• Partnerships Development • Stakeholder Engagement • Various platforms • Research • Analysis of Risks, Gaps & Opportunities • Baseline Establishment • Business Case Development • Skills development in business engagement strategy • positioning, negotiation and dialogue. Questions or comments?

Please ask your questions using the question box in the control panelon the right hand side of thescreen.

29 See other SRJS case studies on Panorama solutions • Inspiring Guinness Ghana to invest in water resources • Decreasing pesticide use for sustainable fruit processing in Ghana • Ensuring responsible natural resource extraction through community participation and business engagement at Peusangan watershed

Submit your solutions: especially where your organisation has helped transform business practice

Get in touch for support: [email protected] 31 2831 Agenda 1. Welcome and introduction with Nadine McCormick, IUCN’s Business and Biodiversity Programme 2. Presentation: Lessons learned from the Shared Resources, Joint Solutions programme with Romie Goedicke from the IUCN Netherlands Committee 3. Q&A 4. Case study: Enhancing corporate biodiversity action in the Beninese landscape with Isdeen Omolere and Gautier Amoussou from Eco-Bénin, and Maximin Djondo from Benin Environment & Education Society 5. Case study: Engaging business for sustainable sugar production in Uganda with Pauline Nantongo from Ecotrust 6. Q&A with presenters and participants 7. Presentation: Summary results of the IUCN survey on influencing business in the conservation community, with Nadine McCormick and Ella Diarra 8. Q&A 9. Closing remarks and feedback

30 IUCN survey on influencing business in the conservation community Initial results Poll #4: Did you, or someone in your organisation complete the survey on influencing business? - Yes - No - I don’t know Rationale

• Business needs to be supported to have a positive impact on nature conservation • Recognition for civil society’s potential to scale up influence on business practices

Objectives:

1. Shape need-based capacity building 2. Identify successful and replicable best practices 3. Create a community of practice 4. Fundraise for future activities Methodology

12 Questions: - Current business engagement practices - Enabling environment - Examples of successful engagements - Interest in joining the BioBiz Workplace group - About the individual responder and their organisation

Survey Monkey 3 languages (English, French and Spanish)

Dates and promotion • April 25th – June 30th • Business focal points in the regions • IUCN Commission Chairs Summary Data 392 responses

REGION Europe ECARO 3% Total no. North 31 7 responses America Med 6% % member 8% ARO 46 11 responses 28 ROWA % 80 PACO 9 ORMACC 10 22 38 % 40 24 % 23 % % ESARO ORO Top 3 countries: 32 SUR 9 USA: 42 63 20 13 % % India: 19 50 % Pakistan: 18 Unknown 26

ECARO: Eastern & Central Europe ARO: Asia ROWA: West & Central Asia Med: Mediterranean ORO: Oceania ESARO: East & Central Africa PACO: West & Central Africa ORMACC: Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean SUR: South America Who responded

Type of Organisation State/ Government Are you an IUCN Commission member? If yes, please agency NGO/ INGO indicate which one(s)

IUCN WORLD COMMISSION ON PROTECTED AREAS 71 Indigenous (WCPA) 12% Peoples’ IUCN WORLD COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL 20% Organisations LAW (WCEL) 13 Other (please 1% specify) IUCN SPECIES SURVIVAL COMMISSION (SSC) 41

IUCN COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL, Other: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLICY (CEESP) 34 Academia; 67% City organisation IUCN COMMISSION ON ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT Government operated park (CEM) 45 Consultancy IUCN COMMISSION ON EDUCATION AND Foundation 45 Trust Fund COMMUNICATION (CEC) Cooperative Media press 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 Overwhelming agreement on the need to engage business Does your organisation agree with this “…If we don't engage with business it would statement? “The conservation community be like telling a child off when they are not in should directly engage with business to achieve the room.” conservation outcomes.” - NGO member from Malaysia *317 0% “…The degree may vary by sector, but all businesses are affected by biodiversity loss Strongly agree 2% and all can do more to tackle it. There is a beginning of awareness, but a more 6% Agree systematic approach should be adopted” - NGO from Lebanon 30% Neither agree nor disagree 62% “We need to collaborate with private sector Disagree to make it value the direct contribution of natural capital to their financial performance. Strongly disagree - IUCN Secretariat from Costa Rica Strong foundations exist for business engagement Does your organisation have a strategy To what extent do you feel that your or a plan to engage businesses? organisation has opportunities to *317 influence businesses? Yes Many opportunities No A Few opportunities 6% I don't 4% know No opportunities 35% 47% 49% 59% Diverse direct and indirect engagement experiences How often has your organisation influenced How often has your organisation influenced business in the following ways? [Direct] business in the following ways? [Indirect] Delivering joint conservation/development Consumer or citizen campaign projects *317 *317

Never Never Rarely 6% Rarely 4% 18% 16% 26% 19% Frequently Frequently Very Often Very Often I don't know 21% 24% 35% 31% I don't know

Rarely: (1-3 past and/or current experiences) Frequently (4-9 past and/or current experiences) Very Often (10+ past and/or current experiences) Public policy implementation gap for sustainable business practices POLICY AND POLICY EFFECTIVENESS Public policy for sustainable business practices exist Existing public policy for sustainable business practice are (N=290) effective (N=290) 38% 45% 60% 63% 40% 50% 35%

30% 40%

25% 30% 20% 17% 15% 20%

10% 10% 5%

0% 0% Strongly Somewhat Neither agree Somewhat Strongly I don't know Strongly agree Somewhat Neither agree Somewhat Strongly I don't know agree agree nor disagree disagree disagree agree nor disagree disagree disagree

NGOs GOV OTHERS NGOs GOV OTHERS Needs for support on business engagement confirmed

Needs expressed per category of stakholders (N=281) Difference in terms needs expressed by respondents working for organisations that have a plan to influence business, that don't have one and those who don't know Learn how to set up effective multi-party coalitions (N=268) and/or collaborative platforms

Learn how to set up effective multi-party coalitions Learn about how different types of sectors and and/or collaborative platforms businesses operate Learn about how different types of sectors and businesses operate How to maintain an effective relationship with business How to maintain an effective relationship with business

Finding out how to go beyond initial discussions Finding out how to go beyond initial discussions with a company with a company

Help in creating contacts with business operating in Help in creating contacts with business operating our country

in our country needed support of Type Learning to craft more impactful pitches and messages for influencing business Learning to craft more impactful pitches and messages for influencing business Support in determining the right approach/strategy for the issues you’re facing with business Support in determining the right approach/strategy for the issues you’re facing with 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% business % of respondents

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% Don't Know No Plan With Plan Other NGO Gov Additional needs General comments about direct business engagement: -“…method for evaluating a company's biodiversity objectives; development of a Biodiversity Action Plan for a company; impact indicators.” “Monitoring of engagements through evaluation mechanisms” General comments about indirect business engagement: - “More civil society participation in formation of laws, regulations and not decided only by elected politicians (once in 5 years)…“ Stronger alliances for greater impact: -“Strengthening civil society activities through alliances. “ “Coordination with other IUCN members on advocacy toward international financial institutions. “ “International pressure and exposure and comment from international organisations..” Next steps

Analysis: Cross tabulations to compare varying perspectives and needs of various stakeholders and further analysis Dissemination: Survey report Action: Support others to scale up; Panorama Solutions; fundraising Questions or comments?

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29 Next steps For you… For us… • Please complete the post- • Share recording and SRJS webinar survey collection of top tips • Consider submitting a solution • Share survey discussion paper on PANORAMA • Share more resources and • Join our BioBiz Workplace advice through BioBiz group here Exchange resources pages • Join us for the next BioBiz webinar focusing on multi- stakeholder partnerships (Thursday 15 December -TBC)