Low Emission Land Use Planning (LELUP)

At the end of this module, learners will be able to:  Develop an adaptive management framework;  Develop approaches to quantify drivers of historical land use change;  Develop future land use scenarios;  Describe a process that leads to a negotiated agreement;  Construct an M&E plan  Integrate information from multiple sources.

Structured Framework Lectures Case StudyExercises Role Play LELUP Guidelines

Enabling Environment Assessment of Current Condition Analysis of Future Options Negotiate and Prioritize Implementatio n Plan Monitor and Evaluation Low Emission LUP

 Land use planning context  Stakeholders and participation  Objectives and Goals are Achieved Enabling Environment

Assessment of Current Condition “Defining and Assessing Drivers”

Analysis of Future Options

Negotiate and Prioritize Implementation Plan Multiple stakeholders Negotiate Agreement on land use Competing Interest

Monitoring & Evaluation

Land Use Planning & Climate Change 1.1 Regulatory Assessments 1.2 Stakeholder Engagement 1.3 Planning & Development Goals & Objectives 2.1 Environment, Social, & Economic Data Needs 2.2 Understanding Historic Land Use Change 2.3 Data & Capacity Gap Assessment 3.1 Modeling Future Trends 3.2 Business as Usual Baseline Construction 3.3 Scenario Assessment 4.3 Implementation Needs 4.2 Priorities & Sequence Implementation Activities 4.1 Negotiate Agreement on Options 5.1 Establish M&E Framework 5.2 Monitor & Measure Progress 5.3 Evaluate, report & adapt

Structured Framework Lectures Case StudyExercises Role Play LELUP Guidelines

 To provide students with a realistic set of circumstances (e.g. tension, debate and conflict) that are common to the development of LELU plan  Students will be able to place themselves in the shoes of one or more stakeholders to try to appreciate a set of perspectives from that stakeholder’s function and position.

 Each of the five role play activities are stand-alone sessions.  Each of activities take two to three hours in length.  The Case Study Brief and the Stakeholder Biographies are meant to be copied and shared with every participant and observer in the role play.  The individual stakeholder notes and character briefings are designed to be seen only by that individual.  The case study briefing is fictitious as well as the stakeholder characters.

If you have only 7 stakeholders it’s suggested to select the following: 1. Chief Planning Officer, Department of Lands Planning Agency (DOLPA) 2. Deputy Director, Provincial Forestry Department 3. Academic Lecturer from the National University of Cardia 4. Secretary to the Women’s Education Living and Learning Program 5. Manager of the Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) Farming Network 6. Director for New Investments for FoodCo (private agricultural investor) 7. Senior Policy Adviser for the NGO ‘Forests for Everyone’ + Observers

The Enabling Environment (Role Play 1) This is the first time the stakeholders have come together before as the LELUP committee, though they each know that this is the reason for the meeting, via their invitations to attend, they all have to read the case study brief and introduction to the province as well as the short bios of the other stakeholders.

Assessment of Historical and Current Conditions (Role Play 2) Don Lig Province will be a leader in implementation of a Low Emission Land Use Plan encompassing National and Provincial targets, including those specifically set in the Environment, Social, Economic and Emission Reduction thematic areas. The overall objective of this second meeting is for the LELUP planning committee to review the available data and based on this determine historical trends, reasons for these trends (e.g. ‘drivers’ of change) and decide if the data sets are good enough to measure the LELUP indicators and targets.

Analysis of Future Options (Role Play 3) The objective of this meeting is for the stakeholders to jointly develop a series of Low Emission Land Use Planning scenarios and described their positive and negative impacts against the LELUP indicators.

Negotiation and Prioritization Implementation Plan (Role Play 4) Negotiation Stage During the development of a low emission plan, a series of negotiations and trade offs would occur across an extended period of time to seek agreement between stakeholders on an acceptable low emission development pathway. Policy Development Stage As second stage of the role play will be a discussion on various policies and mitigation actions that would need to be implemented to achieve the LELUP goal and objectives.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Adaptive Management (Role Play 5) The role play will allow participants/students to discuss and review progress as documented in a series of monitoring and evaluation reports and come to some decisions about what to do. Reviewing the monitoring and evaluation reports are aimed at participant learning how to analyse progress reports and based upon the reports, make informed decisions and recommendations. The decision making process is aimed at creating an environment where adaptive management is encouraged and participants/students engage in this process.

Brett Shields David Saah Perter Stephen Jason Moghaddas Phuong Chi Pham