The Participatory Informed Landscape Approach (PILA)

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PILA benefits :
✓ Foster country ownership and commitment
✓ Leverage and strengthen existing country processes and capacities
✓ Develop participatory Integrated Landscape Management Plan (ILMP) for
deforestation-free commodities and agroecological food system transformation
✓ Tap into “One...


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The Participatory Informed
Landscape Approach (PILA)
Integrated Landscape Management for Transformative Food
Systems
Laura Guarnieri
FOLUR-PILA Coordination, Integration and Capacity
Development Specialist, FAO
[email protected]
Patrick Kalas
GEF-7 Impact Programs Management
FAO
[email protected]
Fritjof Boerstler
GEF-7 Impact Programs Global Coordinator,
FAO
[email protected]

Why ?
❑Sectoral / jurisdictional governance challenges
❑Top-down / expert-driven approach
❑Gaps in quality data and decision support tools
❑Room to improve inclusion, awareness and understanding
❑Sub-optimal implementation/monitoring of Plans
BAU scenario
❑Cross-sectoral integration / transformative governance
❑Inclusive, bottom-up, multi-stakeholder participatory process
❑Access to data, information and tools to ensure holistic, state-of-
the-art and integrated landscape analysis
❑Strengthening of institutional and technical capacities
❑Paving ground for ILM Plans implementation & monitoring
Success factors for Integrated Landscape Management
ILM-PILA

What and how ?
VERTICAL
-
Sustainable Value Chains
HORIZONTAL -Landscape Level (ILM)
PILA benefits :
✓Foster country ownershipand commitment
✓Leverage and strengthen existing country processes and capacities
✓Develop participatory Integrated Landscape Management Plan (ILMP) for
deforestation-free commodities and agroecological food system transformation
✓Tap into “One-FAO” integrated technical package and technical agency
support:
▪Facilitated methodology for multi-stakeholder planning processwith a policy focus and
mainstreamed agroecological principles and sustainable standards
▪Multi-dimensional evaluation of the farms sustainability performance
▪PILA geospatial platform and integrated (GIS-field survey) landscape assessment
▪Analysis of the enabling environment, including tenurerightsand transformative
governance
▪Restoration potential mapping, including data on costs and benefits of ecosystem
restoration,
▪Assessment and empowerment of forest and farm producer organizations
1.Preparatory
phase
3. Joint vision
Multi-stakeholder
Workshop 1
4. Holistic landscape
analysis
5. Fomvisions to
plans
Multi-stakeholder
Workshop 2
6. Policy
recommendations
and landscape
zoning
7. ILM Plan(s)
2. Preliminary assessments
A schematic of PILA
The PILA process

Where ?
❑PILA countries under the GEF-7 FOLUR-IP :
Kenya, Nigeria, Viet Nam, India, Nicaragua,
Brazil
❑Programmatic approach and
institutionalization
Replicability / scalability to other FOLUR countries
or existing programmes(ILM & Food System
components)

Thank you for your attention
Interested to learn more, visit us at:
https://www.fao.org/forestry/our-focus/forests-environment/folur-
programme/en
Contact
[email protected]