building effective conservation-based enterprises
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Building Effective Conservation-based Enterprises. Successes, Outstanding Challenges and Optimal Means for Scaling up Impact. Giles Davies, AWF John Elias, The Sanctuary at Ol Lentille Timothy Ole Mosiany, Kijabe Trust. African ownership / leadership as founding principle - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Building Effective Conservation-based
EnterprisesSuccesses, Outstanding Challenges and Optimal Means for Scaling up
Impact
Giles Davies, AWFJohn Elias, The Sanctuary at Ol Lentille
Timothy Ole Mosiany, Kijabe Trust
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Evolution of AWF’s Conservation Enterprise
African ownership / leadership as founding principleCBNRM in 1980s, particularly Kenya and Tanzania
Large scaleTenure and process focusBenefits stream / benefit sharing
Enterprise building focus from mid-1990sCommunity rights, ownership and
participation in decisionsPrivate sector skills and partnershipPrivate sector financingValid role for NGO as intermediary, facilitatorBusiness success and social sustainability
AWF Conservation Enterprise Program
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AWF’s Conservation Enterprise Today
Compelling business & conservation logic
Structure for success
Tourism, trade, agriculture
Social sustainability, including benefit sharing
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Conservation Enterprise
• What’s Going Well?
• What are the outstanding Challenges?
• How do we address them?Giles Davies, Director Conservation Enterprise, AWF
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Conservation Enterprise
A commercial activity that generates economic benefits in a way that supports
the attainment of a conservation objective
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Conservation Enterprise GEOGRAPHICAL ENGAGEMENT
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Conservation Enterprise PROJECT PIPELINE
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Conservation Enterprise SECTORAL ENGAGEMENT
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Conservation Enterprise INVESTMENT SCALE
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Conservation Enterprise INVESTMENT DYNAMICS
US$ 9 million total investment in the 20 projects open for business
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Conservation Enterprise INVESTMENT RETURNS
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What’s Going Well: Developing Critical Mass…
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What’s Going Well
Getting the Context Right
Conservation
Community
Commercial
Building a Critical Mass of Commercially Viable Businesses
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Key Issue 1: Capacity
Practitioner Level
Customer Level
Financier Level
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Key Issue 2: Historical Financing Dynamics
Supply- Led
Finance
Demand- Led
Finance
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Key Issue 2: Historical Financing Dynamics
Debt must play a more prominent role
Risk = Rigour
Mitigates Market Distortions
Funding Completion
Enhances Local Ownership and Accountability
Leverage Efficiency
Tax Efficiency
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Key Issue 2: Historical Financing Dynamics: Developing Solutions
Example: Linking Livestock Markets to ConservationNorthern Kenya, Arid Lands
Commercial Loan (US$ 350k) to private sector partner (repayable 10 years): seeds the development of a CE Loan Fund within AWF.Also seeds the organic development of a dedicated revolving conservation livestock fund of US$ 1 million housed within the private sector partner.Conditional livestock purchases = US$ 8 million into local communities in first 10 year period.Fully sustainable, highly scalable.
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Key Issue 3: Benefits Management
Closed Conservancy Systems – no problem
Open Community Lands Systems – a challenge
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Summary
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Introducing Ol Lentille
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Benefits
5000 >15,000 acres
4 luxury “villas”
Vegetation recovery
Wildlife return
Economy boost: EUR300,000 in 18 months
Asset ownership: EUR 1 million +
Return on community investment: 30 x
Issues
Governance & accountability
Killing the cow and milking it
Livestock & conservation
Size matters
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