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Session 1: Stakeholder engagement
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Stakeholder Engagement; An introduction
What is stakeholder engagement?
Series of activities that seek to inform, consult and ensure the participation of stakeholders.
Allows stakeholders to have an influence on the outcome on plans and projects.
Ranges from informing stakeholders to actively consulting them in cooperative decision making. ©UNEP/GRID-Arendal
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Why engage and what are the benefits?
Effective and strategically aligned stakeholder engagement can:
Lead to more equitable and sustainable social development
Give those who have a right to be heard Allow for the pooling of resources to solve problems Inform, educate, and influence stakeholders
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Why engage and what are the benefits?
Continued…
Build trust among and between stakeholders
Enhances cooperation and provides the potential to build consensus and avoid conflict among stakeholders
Increases transparency in project activities and legitimacy of decisions
Enhances accountability in decision-making related to the issues in stake
Creates a greater sense of empowerment and social responsibility
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The key principles of stakeholder engagement:
Information disclosure
Communication
Consultation and participation
Involvement
Cooperation and partnerships
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Why is stakeholder engagement important for the implementation of national TEEB studies?
Helps to determine and prioritise the policy questions at stake
Assists in the framing of the TEEB study
Facilitates the identification of which stakeholders should participate and how in a TEEB study
Avoid conflicts between those making and those being affected by decisions concerning ecosystems.
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Why is stakeholder engagement important for the implementation of national TEEB studies?
Continued…..
Makes use of local knowledge of ecosystems
Promotes and encourages effective implementation
Ensures for continual engagement throughout the whole process
Cultivates good governance ethics from the outset
Encourages fairness and equity when making decisions linked to ecosystem and their services
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Examples of Success; Collaborative management of The Kipsaina wetlands in
Kenya
Formed in 1990 as a partnership of local communities to conserve and restore the Saiwa swamp in national park in Kenya.
With group effort, neighbouring communities have a reliable and clean water source all year round
Increase in the grey-crowned crane population as well as increased income from fish and produce sales.
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Examples of Success cont…
“A fund for water” in Quito, Ecuador Established in the 90’s to help prevent
illegal logging and deforestation within the protected areas that were putting Quito’s water supply at risk.
The Nature Conservancy partnered together to establish a water fund, to maintain forests for providing fresh water and prevent soil erosion
The Quito Water Conservation Fund (FONAG) pays for activities for watershed protection.
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