31 August 2006 Capetown, South Africa

1. Overview Part one: What is it Part two: Engaging in a CSIF The Country SLM Investment Framework (CSIF) An operational tool for programmatic engagement 31 August 2006 Capetown, South Africa

2. Overview: What is the CSIF? The CSIF is a tool for implementing the TerrAfrica Country Engagement Strategy The CES is not a step-by-step prescription for engagement at the country level. Rather, it is a broad guide on how the engagement process should be conducted. The CSIF will deal with and adapt to country-specific situations. It is a tool for countries to align sectors, stakeholders, and donors around an operational roadmap. This will be elaborated in Part One: What is CSIF

3. Overview: Engaging in a CSIF • Countries engage in a CSIF along a continuum between two poles: • 1. Full CSIF – full programmatic approach (corresponds with Country Program) • Preliminary CSIF – puts countries on the track toward more programmatic approach (corresponds with Targeted Investments) • This will be elaborated in Part Two: • Engaging in a CSIF

4. Overview Part one: What is it Part two: Engaging in a CSIF The Country SLM Investment Framework (CSIF) Part One: What is it? A tool for countries to align sectors, stakeholders, and donors around an operational roadmap.

5. Goal: establish a country-owned operational roadmap for aligning sectors and donors around programmatic investment, in line with the CES Objective: mainstream and scale-up SLM to secure ecosystem services and enhance rural livelihoods Value added: Improve investment quality, targeting, and sequencing Lower transaction costs Leverage co-financing that is more catalytic, strategic, and cost-effective Promote use of accurate and comparable M&E indicators Assist climate-proofing of SLM CSIF: Goal & Value Added

6. CSIF is a tool, not a condition, and follows CES principles CSIF is owned, produced, and led by countries CSIF is multi-sector, multi-stakeholder and multi-financier CSIF builds upon and helps implement existing priorities found in: PRSPs, CAADP and EAP processes, NAPs, sector strategies, adaptation studies/strategies, basin action programs, etc. CSIF is living document: regular updating, and keyed to national development planning CSIF: Characteristics

7. Not only physical investment (ie, the hardware): civil works, equipment, goods, inputs But also the software: Invest in human capital (e.g. training) strengthen the knowledge base (e.g. filling key research gaps and linking to investment decisions) Strengthen institutions and governance improve financial, policy, and economic incentives What is investment in the CSIF context

8. CSIF Intervention Levels National • Sub-National • - administrative • - ecosystem/watershed • Local • -local government • - community level Farm/Forest/Rangeland This is where it happens! CSIF will identify priority areas for SLM investments

9. Land users/ managers men and women Civil Society CBOs, NGOs Scaling up SLM Government national local (incl. traditional) • Service providers • inputs, outputs, • research, advice CSIF – Main Actors • Main sectors: • agriculture/ grazing • forestry • but also: • inland fisheries/ aquaculture • tourism • wildlife • energy CSIF will continuously build stakeholder ownership through preparation, and partnerships in implementation, M&E and updating/revision

10. Supporting on the ground activities for scaling up SLM Creating a conducive enabling environment for SLM Strengthening commercial and advisory services for SLM Developing effective SLM knowledge management, M&E and information dissemination systems CSIF: Components

11. Activities: 1.1 Identification of best entry points for scaling up SLM to achieve ecosystem integrity. 1.2 Capacity building for SLM implementers (farmers, forest users, rural community members, etc.) to support integrated approaches to natural resources management. 1.3 SLM investment pilots/demonstration sites with embedded scale-up strategy. 1.4 Strengthening farmer/producer organizations for adoption and up-scaling of SLM practices 1.5 Providing incentives for SLM adoption (including support to design of environmental services payments, targeted matching grants or credit programmes). 1. Supporting on-the-ground activities for scaling up SLM

12. Activities: 2.1 Integrating SLM into national and sectoral development frameworks at national and decentralised levels. 2.2 Integrating SLM objectives and requirements into institutional and legal reform processes 2.3 Capacity building for SLM at all levels, to support awareness, coalition building and advocacy. 2.4 Strengthening cross-sectoral spatial planning systems at the national and decentralised level to prioritize investments between agro-ecosystems and types of intervention. 2.5 Reviewing country investment programmes and public expenditure frameworks to identify constraints and entry points for SLM and to increase predictability of financial flows to SLM. 2.6 Analysing and rectifying incentive frameworks for SLM. 2.7 Building or strengthening early warning systems, contingency and response capacity. 2.8 Strengthening traditional and innovative conflict resolution mechanisms to avoid, mitigate and resolve conflicts over NR 2. Creating a conducive enabling environment for SLM

13. Activities: 3.1 Identify non-policy constraints/bottlenecks to SLM adoption. 3.2 Capacity building for SLM service providers. 3.3 Strengthening input suppliers (seeds, tools, seedlings, etc.). 3.4 Marketing support for outputs from SLM, including certification systems to strengthen fair trade and eco-labelling schemes. 3.5 Strengthening providers of financial services to offer financial products to support SLM adoption. 3. Strengthening commercial and advisory services for SLM

14. Activities: 4.1 Supporting targeted and applied SLM research (technical, economic, social), including long-term ecological research and monitoring, directly linked to scale-up agenda. 4.2 Support knowledge sharing and innovation networks based upon participatory/community-driven and iterative approaches. 4.3. Strengthen capacity of SLM stakeholders for innovation 4.4 Developing M&E MIS for SLM for CSIF implementation and evaluation 4.5 Developing effective national dissemination strategies for lessons and best practices (to complement regional TerrAfrica efforts). 4. Developing effective SLM knowledge management, M&E and information ‘dissemination systems

15. Selecting priority interventions – various options: thematic: between or within CSIF Components geographic: high-potential vs. low-potential areas, hotspots/brightspots, priority ecosystems, technical: prevention versus rehabilitation Creating early momentum with quick wins: identify and dismantle perverse incentives build upon successes use and strengthen existing SLM institutions bring SLM into existing programs start with low cost and low risk investments Harmonization & Alignment horizontal and vertical, between stakeholders and donors Prioritization and harmonization

16. Sector-wide programs incl. SWAPs NRM, Agriculture, or Forestry Operations such as: watershed management and irrigation community-driven development research and extension commercialization/supply chain development SLM Delivery mechanisms

17. CSIF Sources of Financing: land users or managers users of environmental services provided by SLM service providers and civil society government Donors Financing Modalities - donors budget support programme approach/basket funding operations Financing and its modalities

19. Overview Part one: What is it Part two: Engaging in a CSIF The Country SLM Investment Framework (CSIF) Part Two: Engaging in a CSIF Two types along a continuum: preliminary and full CSIFs, supporting development of targeted investments and country programs

20. Countries must first decide where on the continuum they are in terms of programmatic approaches to SLM: Full CSIF, leading to a country program for countries with strong diagnostics and political ownership of the SLM agenda A country program implements all or most priority investments in a full CSIF Preliminary CSIF, defining targeted investments for countries lacking strong analytical underpinnings and political/institutional support for full program Implement selective priorities identified in preliminary CSIF Process leads toward progressively more comprehensive CSIF and possible country program Two types of engagement

21. Step 1 – Engaging in the process • Political will to make SLM a national priority • Commitment and alignment of development partners, with one lead partner to catalyze process • Broad-based coalition-building • Leadership of “SLM champions” in a National Task Force • Sub-national fora and groups • Multi-level and cross-sectoral • Multi-stakeholder: private, public, civil society, developmentpartners • SLM sensitization and awareness-raising at all levels • Regional partners (NEPAD and RECs) support the process on a demand-driven basis

22. Step 2 – Diagnostics • Stocktaking • Strategies, institutions, policies • Public expenditure on SLM • Best practices • Existing projects and programs • Ecosystems and landscapes: LD issues, trends and local/sub-national stakeholder expectations/needs • Analysis • LD drivers and ecosystems at risk • Barriers and bottlenecks • Threats and opportunities (e.g. climate change, bioenergy) • Potential synergies and trade-offs between multiple objectives

23. Step 3 – Investment design and programming • Investment framework • Based upon: • national priorities; • SLM diagnostic; and • expectations of stakeholders. • Participatory identification and prioritization of investments • Harmonized, coherent and cost-effective • CSIF components guide the structure of the framework

24. Step 4 – Implementation,monitoring and evaluation • Participatory implementation of investment projects • Outputs, activities, M&E • Budget, time frame, responsibilities, funding and delivery mechanisms • Early, rapid momentum from first set of interventions • M&E transparent and participatory to feed into CSIF update • Regular updating of CSIF • CSIF task force/stakeholder forum members must ensure that CSIF priorities are fed back into sectoral and other planning processes

25. The Country SLM Investment Framework (CSIF) THANK YOU An operational tool for programmatic engagement 31 August 2006 Capetown, South Africa