Engaging business at a landscape levelLessons from the Shared Resources, Joint Solutions (SRJS) Programme

A BioBiz Exchange / PANORAMA webinar24 September 2020

IUCN Business & Biodiversity Programme

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Agenda

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1. Welcome and introduction with Nadine McCormick, IUCN’s Business and Biodiversity Programme

2. Presentation: Lessons learned from the Shared Resources, Joint Solutions programme with Romie Goedicke from the IUCN Netherlands Committee

3. Case study: Enhancing corporate biodiversity action in the Beninese landscape with Isdeen Omolere and Gautier Amoussou from Eco-Bénin, and Maximin Djondo from Benin Environment & Education Society

4. Case study: Engaging business for sustainable sugar production in Uganda with Pauline Nantongo from Ecotrust

5. Q&A with presenters and participants

6. Summary results of the IUCN survey on influencing business in the conservation community, with Nadine McCormick and Ella Diarra

7. Closing remarks and feedback

Our Speakers

NadineMcCormick

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IUCN

@IUCN_business

Pauline Nantongo

ECOTRUST

@ECOTRUST_Ug

Romie Goedicke

IUCN NL

@IUCNNL

GautierAmoussou Maximin Djondo

Eco-Bénin

@ecobenin

Benin Environment and

Education Society

@bees_ong

Isdeen Omolere

Eco-Bénin

@ecobenin

Ella Diarra

IUCN

@IUCN_business

Poll #1: Which type of organisation are you with?

– Civil society/NGO – national level

– NGO/IO – international level

– Government

– Business/consultancy

– Other

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Poll #2: What is your experience on engaging business?

- No experience

- A little experience

- Lots of experience

Poll #3: What is your biggest challenge right now?

- Lack of opportunities

- Designing a strategy

- Lack of resources and capacity

- Other (please specify using the chat function)

Questions or comments?

Please ask your questions using the

question box in the control panelon

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Agenda

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1. Welcome and introduction with Nadine McCormick, IUCN’s Business and Biodiversity Programme

2. Presentation: Lessons learned from the Shared Resources, Joint Solutions programme, with Romie Goedicke from the IUCN Netherlands Committee

3. Case study: Enhancing corporate biodiversity action in the Beninese landscape with Isdeen Omolere and Gautier Amoussou from Eco-Bénin, and Maximin Djondo from Benin Environment & Education Society

4. Case study: Engaging business for sustainable sugar production in Uganda, with Pauline Nantongo from Ecotrust

5. Q&A with presenters and participants

6. Presentation: Summary results of the IUCN survey on influencing business in the conservation community, with Nadine McCormick and Ella Diarra

7. Closing remarks and feedback

SHARED RESOURCES,

JOINT SOLUTIONS

A just world that values and conserves nature.

PARTNERSHIPS AND ADVOCACY FOR CLIMATE

RESILIENCE, WATER AND FOOD SECURITY

GEOGRAPHICAL SCOPELANDSCAPES IN WHICH WATER PROVISIONING, FOOD SECURITY,

CLIMATE RESILIENCE AND BIODIVERSITY ARE UNDER PRESSURE

9 ecoregions in16 countries around the world

South-America

• Paraguay

• Bolivia

• Guyana

• Suriname

Africa

• Uganda

• Tanzania

• Madagascar

• Zambia

• Mozambique

• Ghana

• Benin

• Burkina Faso

Asia

• Philippines

• Indonesia

• Cambodia

• Myanmar

BUSINESS ENGAGEMENT CAPACITY

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150+ colleagues trained in 2-3 days

capacity building course 50+ attended Advanced negotiations module

25+ attended Online participation in extractives module

40+ attended financial safeguards partner meeting (with VBDO).

75+ attended Capacity building on SEA/EIA process

(with Com. MER)

350 desired changes in company,

financial institution and government policy.

12 engagements are featured in the

collection of top tips and case studies.

Get ready

• Understand the business context and situation

• Consult with and gain mandate from the local communities

• Join forces with organisations that have similar goals

• “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” – Sun Tzu, the Art of War

Time to engage

• Identify a champion in the company

• Use effective dialogue & good communications channels to build trust

• Demonstrate the benefits to business

• “Trust comes on foot, but leaves on horseback”. -Johan Thorbecke, Dutch politician.

Scaling up

• Institutionalize your agreement

• Celebrate success to inspire further action

• Capture & integrate best practices to ensure longevity

• “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African proverb

Questions or comments?

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Agenda

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1. Welcome and introduction with Nadine McCormick, IUCN’s Business and Biodiversity Programme

2. Presentation: Lessons learned from the Shared Resources, Joint Solutions programme with Romie Goedicke from the IUCN Netherlands Committee

3. Case study: Enhancing corporate biodiversity action in the Beninese landscape, with Isdeen Omolere and Gautier Amoussou from Eco-Bénin, and Maximin Djondo from Benin Environment & Education Society

4. Case study: Engaging business for sustainable sugar production in Uganda,with Pauline Nantongo from Ecotrust

5. Q&A with presenters and participants

6. Presentation: Summary results of the IUCN survey on influencing business in the conservation community, with Nadine McCormick and Ella Diarra

7. Closing remarks and feedback

Enhancing corporate biodiversity action in the Beninese landscape

Isdeen Omolere (Environmental engineer and programme manager at Eco-Benin)Gautier Amoussou (Coordinator of Eco-Benin)Maximin Djondo (Director of Benin Environment and Education Society)

Panorama Solution: Engaging a cement multinational and its subsidiaries to enhance and broaden their biodiversity conservation efforts in Benin

Context and Challenges

A potential champion?

The challenge - Heidelberg Cement’s international existing commitment and experience on biodiversity not matched by the local subsidiaries, CIMBénin and SCANTogo

The Landscape

• Mono river transboundary reserve important for nature and people

• Challenges included land degradation linked to quarries

Solution and impacts

• Quarry Life Awards in 2018 as a catalyst for the change

• Create opportunities for in-depth and informative discussionson conservation issues and opportunities for action, andorganize work shops and site visits.

IMPACTS• Collaboration for the conservation and protection of

endangered wildlife species

• Collaboration on future biodiversity conservation actions.Working with Heidelberg to implement the state-adopted CSRCharter.

• BEES and Eco-Benin have also signed an agreement withScanTogo and CIMBénin, for the planting of 20,000 plants inthe Bouche du Roy reserve by Eco-Bénin (photo).

• Other companies are inspired to also know more aboutbiodiversity issues and how they can contribute

Success factors

• Participatory dialogues

• Coaching from the IUCN partner• E.g. Business impacts and dependencies on nature

• Use existing contacts and networks.• In-company champion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvyu0onehhQ&feature=emb_title

Agenda

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1. Welcome and introduction with Nadine McCormick, IUCN’s Business and Biodiversity Programme

2. Presentation: Lessons learned from the Shared Resources, Joint Solutions programme with Romie Goedicke from the IUCN Netherlands Committee

3. Case study: Enhancing corporate biodiversity action in the Beninese landscape, with Isdeen Omolere and Gautier Amoussou from Eco-Bénin, and Maximin Djondo from Benin Environment & Education Society

4. Case study: Engaging business for sustainable sugar production in Uganda,with Pauline Nantongo from Ecotrust

5. Q&A with presenters and participants

6. Summary results of the IUCN survey on influencing business in the conservation community, with Nadine McCormick and Ella Diarra

7. Closing remarks and feedback

Engaging business for sustainable sugar production in Uganda

ECOTRUST Working with Kinyara Sugar

Panorama Solution:Engaging business for sustainable sugar production in Uganda

Context Location: Forest & Wetlands of the Northern Albertine Rift; 52% of Africa’s bird species; 39% of its mammal species; 19% of its amphibians; 14% of its reptiles; and 14% of its plants (Plumptre et al., 2007).

Threats : Insufficient water resources, wetland degradation, deforestation, Fires & Encroachment on company resources

Challenges: • Balancing competing needs for sugarcane expansion and

provision of Environmental Services (Water Resources risks and Opportunities, Biodiversity conservation, Large scale commercial farming & Subsistence farming

• A strategy that reconciles nature, community well-being, and profits both on and beyond the business-owned farm.

SolutionThe Kiiha partnership: a platform DWRM, GIZ, Kinyara and Ecotrust• To discuss sustainability risks and gaps

in sugarcane development

• Use recommendations to address identified gaps and attain socio-economic and environmental standards of sugarcane production

Impacts• Re-focus Kinyara’s strategy

• from expansion of land for production, to production efficiency

• Improve engagement with their value chains

• Adoption of the Kiiha Catchment Management Plan regulation as a tool to guide their investments in that landscape

• Supporting actions to safeguard biodiversity

Building blocks

• Partnerships Development

• Stakeholder Engagement

• Various platforms

• Research

• Analysis of Risks, Gaps & Opportunities

• Baseline Establishment

• Business Case Development

• Skills development in business engagement strategy

• positioning, negotiation and dialogue.

Questions or comments?

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See other SRJS case studies on Panorama solutions • Inspiring Guinness Ghana to invest in water resources• Decreasing pesticide use for sustainable fruit processing in Ghana• Ensuring responsible natural resource extraction through community participation and

business engagement at Peusangan watershed

Submit your solutions: especially where your organisation has helped transform business practice

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Agenda

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1. Welcome and introduction with Nadine McCormick, IUCN’s Business and Biodiversity Programme

2. Presentation: Lessons learned from the Shared Resources, Joint Solutions programme with Romie Goedicke from the IUCN Netherlands Committee

3. Q&A

4. Case study: Enhancing corporate biodiversity action in the Beninese landscape with Isdeen Omolere and Gautier Amoussou from Eco-Bénin, and Maximin Djondo from Benin Environment & Education Society

5. Case study: Engaging business for sustainable sugar production in Uganda with Pauline Nantongo from Ecotrust

6. Q&A with presenters and participants

7. Presentation: Summary results of the IUCN survey on influencing business in the conservation community, with Nadine McCormick and Ella Diarra

8. Q&A

9. Closing remarks and feedback

IUCN survey on influencing business in the

conservation communityInitial results

Poll #4: Did you, or someone in your organisation complete the survey on influencing business? - Yes- No- I don’t know

Rationale

• Business needs to be supported to have a positive impact on nature conservation

• Recognition for civil society’s potential to scale up influence on business practices

Objectives:1. Shape need-based capacity building2. Identify successful and replicable best practices3. Create a community of practice4. Fundraise for future activities

Methodology

Survey Monkey3 languages (English, French and Spanish)

Dates and promotion• April 25th – June 30th

• Business focal points in the regions• IUCN Commission Chairs

12 Questions:- Current business engagement practices- Enabling environment- Examples of successful engagements- Interest in joining the BioBiz Workplace group- About the individual responder and their

organisation

Summary Data 392 responses

ARO80

ECARO7

Europe31

PACO38

ESARO32

Med

11ROWA

9

North America

46

Unknown26

ORMACC40

SUR63

ORO9

ECARO: Eastern & Central Europe ARO: Asia ROWA: West & Central Asia Med: Mediterranean ORO: Oceania ESARO: East & Central Africa PACO: West & Central AfricaORMACC: Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean SUR: South America

Top 3 countries:USA: 42India: 19Pakistan: 18

REGIONTotal no.

responses% member responses

50%

24%23

%

20%

28%

22%

6%

13%

8%

10%

3%

45

45

34

41

13

71

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80

IUCN COMMISSION ON EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION (CEC)

IUCN COMMISSION ON ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT (CEM)

IUCN COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLICY (CEESP)

IUCN SPECIES SURVIVAL COMMISSION (SSC)

IUCN WORLD COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (WCEL)

IUCN WORLD COMMISSION ON PROTECTED AREAS (WCPA)

Are you an IUCN Commission member? If yes, please indicate which one(s)

Who responded

12%

67%

1%

20%

Type of OrganisationState/GovernmentagencyNGO/ INGO

Indigenous Peoples’ OrganisationsOther (pleasespecify)

Other:Academia; City organisationGovernment operated parkConsultancyFoundationTrust FundCooperativeMedia press

Overwhelming agreement on the need to engage business

“…If we don't engage with business it would be like telling a child off when they are not in the room.”- NGO member from Malaysia

“…The degree may vary by sector, but all businesses are affected by biodiversity loss and all can do more to tackle it. There is a beginning of awareness, but a more systematic approach should be adopted”- NGO from Lebanon

“We need to collaborate with private sector to make it value the direct contribution of natural capital to their financial performance. - IUCN Secretariat from Costa Rica

62%

30%

6%2%

0%

Does your organisation agree with this statement? “The conservation community

should directly engage with business to achieve conservation outcomes.”

*317

Strongly agree

Agree

Neither agree nordisagree

Disagree

Strongly disagree

59%

35%

6%

Does your organisation have a strategy or a plan to engage businesses?

*317

Yes

No

I don'tknow

Strong foundations exist for business engagement

47%49%

4%

To what extent do you feel that your organisation has opportunities to

influence businesses?Manyopportunities

A Fewopportunities

Noopportunities

Diverse direct and indirect engagement experiences

18%

35%24%

19%4%

How often has your organisation influenced business in the following ways? [Direct]

Delivering joint conservation/development projects

*317

Never

Rarely

Frequently

Very Often

I don't know

26%

31%

21%

16%

6%

How often has your organisation influenced business in the following ways? [Indirect]

Consumer or citizen campaign *317

Never

Rarely

Frequently

Very Often

I don'tknow

Rarely: (1-3 past and/or current experiences) Frequently (4-9 past and/or current experiences) Very Often (10+ past and/or current experiences)

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

Strongly agree Somewhatagree

Neither agreenor disagree

Somewhatdisagree

Stronglydisagree

I don't know

Existing public policy for sustainable business practice are effective (N=290)

NGOs GOV OTHERS

0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

40%

45%

Stronglyagree

Somewhatagree

Neither agreenor disagree

Somewhatdisagree

Stronglydisagree

I don't know

Public policy for sustainable business practices exist (N=290)

NGOs GOV OTHERS

Public policy implementation gap for sustainable business practices

38%

POLICY AND POLICY EFFECTIVENESS

63%

17%

Needs for support on business engagement confirmed

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%

Support in determining the right approach/strategy for the issues you’re facing with

business

Learning to craft more impactful pitches andmessages for influencing business

Help in creating contacts with business operatingin our country

Finding out how to go beyond initial discussionswith a company

How to maintain an effective relationship withbusiness

Learn about how different types of sectors andbusinesses operate

Learn how to set up effective multi-party coalitionsand/or collaborative platforms

Needs expressed per category of stakholders (N=281)

Other NGO Gov

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%

Support in determining the right approach/strategy for the issues you’re facing with business

Learning to craft more impactful pitches andmessages for influencing business

Help in creating contacts with business operating inour country

Finding out how to go beyond initial discussionswith a company

How to maintain an effective relationship withbusiness

Learn about how different types of sectors andbusinesses operate

Learn how to set up effective multi-party coalitionsand/or collaborative platforms

% of respondents

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Difference in terms needs expressed by respondents working for organisations that have a plan to influence business, that don't have one and those who don't know

(N=268)

Don't Know No Plan With Plan

Additional needs

Stronger alliances for greater impact:-“Strengthening civil society activities through alliances. ““Coordination with other IUCN members on advocacy toward international financial institutions. ““International pressure and exposure and comment from international organisations..”

General comments about direct business engagement:-“…method for evaluating a company's biodiversity objectives; development of a Biodiversity Action Plan for a company; impact indicators.”“Monitoring of engagements through evaluation mechanisms”

General comments about indirect business engagement:- “More civil society participation in formation of laws, regulations and not decided only by elected politicians (once in 5 years)…“

Next steps

Analysis: Cross tabulations to compare varying perspectives and needs of various stakeholders and further analysis

Dissemination: Survey report

Action: Support others to scale up; Panorama Solutions; fundraising

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