1. A Presentation for FANRPAN Annual Regional Stakeholder Dialogue Maputo, September, 2009 Gabriella Richardson-Temm, The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) R ural A frica R eady

2. Context  Interplay between development and the environment  Climate change - with new associated financial resources and interests - effecting interactions between governments, people and the environment;  Disconnected global and national agendas and efforts (climate, energy, biodiversity loss, agricultural development, poverty alleviation, food security and population)  Fractured opportunities and missed synergies  Scant attention to specific interventions and innovations needed for community participation in an integrated climate approach.

3. Challenges  Re-articulate & re-understand the interplay between climate, development and the environment  finding integrated solutions from land to tackle climate change, poverty, food security and biodiversity  Appreciating rural communities as principal stewards of landscapes, specifically in areas of agriculture, forest and climate change

4. Our Response  Long history working on interrelated areas of agriculture, land use and climate;  Two sister grants and new institutional efforts  Comesa – Project on Capacity Development for Eastern and Southern Africa Countries to climate change protection and adaptation  WWF Planning and Engagement grant to promote work in three eco- regions and representative countries  CARE/WWF Alliance  Carbon Measurement, Monitoring and Management Program

5. The Program Strengthen the institutional, policy and practice frameworks that will empower rural communities, as the principal stewards of their landscapes, to play a unique role in advancing a broad spectrum of interrelated climate, development and environmental goals:  Develop a conceptual framework that brings these interrelated agendas together and building a consensus around that framework among important thought leaders:  Work with regional institutions, national governments and civil society organizations to design and launch a related implementation model;  Launch and/or incorporate model projects that can feed ideas and rural participation into the implementation framework ( (i.e. Investor type carbon, adaptation, agricultural/agro-forestry and energy projects)

6. Principles of Engagement Local empowerment agenda: linking institutional and policy work to the stewards (community-based carbon projects and related landscape-scale agricultural, land use, adaptation and mitigation interventions) Local-to-global framework: bringing stewardship and conservation into national, regional and global climate discussions, strategies and programs; Multi-functional context: recognizing the potential of the “Nature, Wealth and Power” framework to guide institutional, financial and policy work Multi-institutional design: Including rural community,CSOs, national governments, regional organizations, businesses & the international climate and development communities; New financial architecture: Connecting carbon mitigation finance, commercial and investment banking, development assistance and climate adaptation funds to local micro-finance institutions and emerging financial instruments

7. Planning and Engagement International development, agricultural and climate community Regional inter-governmental organizations National governments Private sector Civil society organizations, Rural communities