TEEB Training Session 1: Stakeholder engagement

TEEB Training 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

TEEB Training 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

TEEB Training 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

TEEB Training The key principles of stakeholder engagement:  Information disclosure  Communication  Consultation and participation  Involvement  Cooperation and partnerships ©

TEEB Training 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. ©TEEB for Local and Regional Policy Makers Report

TEEB Training 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 ©T EEB Manual for Cities

TEEB Training 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. ©Teebtest.rog

TEEB Training 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. ©Teebtest.org