2.2. Principles of stakeholder engagement and negotiation
Sep 19th, 2007 by leb3
Several initiatives that have emerged in recent years to develop landscape level processes for integrating and reconciling conservation, production and livelihood goals have been cross-fertilizing experience and strategies for engaging stakeholders. Among these, CIFOR’s program on Managing Landscape Mosaics for Sustainable Livelihoods, IUCN’s on Landscapes and Livelihoods and its Global Landscape Restoration Network, and WWF’s on Forests and Livelihoods have interacted with Ecoagriculture Partners’ Landscape Measures Initiative (LMI) to distill some principles.
The ‘Lally’ Principles of Engaging and Negotiating with Stakeholders are named after a place where the organizations named above met to discuss frameworks for landscape tracking. The ‘Lally Principles’ pertain mainly to situations where an outside organization has an interest in influencing what happens in a particular landscape. In situations where local organizations come together spontaneously to improve their management of landscapes, some of the principles may not apply. The principles may be useful for local stakeholders to keep in mind however, to make the most of the day when external organizations do have a role to play.
The Lally Principles have been adapted and specified into more concrete guidelines as landscape appraoches to conservation, production and livelihood development have been applied in particular areas. A Case Study of the Congo Basin offers a good example.
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