Key messages
If the impact of a landscape intervention is to endure, effective ‘institutionalization’ is needed.
- This can be achieved by embedding participatory, adaptive and cross-sectoral planning and decision-making processes in existing institutions and systems.
- Institutionalization can strengthen a landscape initiative’s viability, continuity and resilience to disruption and political shifts. Plus it can open new avenues for influencing sustainable development policy and programming.
- Too little capacity, too few resources and too much emphasis on delivering short term, quantifiable impacts deter ‘landscape champions’ from effectively investing in institutionalization. As a result, there is a higher risk of their landscape initiatives losing momentum, especially when thought of only as ‘projects’.
- Based on experience gained monitoring and implementing landscapes initiatives, we propose an eight-step strategy that can landscape champions to more effectively institutionalize a landscape approach.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17528/cifor-icraf/009181Altmetric score:
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Publication year
2024
Authors
Schoneveld, G.C.; Robiglio, V.; van Oosten, C.; Gallagher, E.
Language
English
Keywords
landscape conservation, sustainability, natural resource management, integration
