AWF Heartland Conservation Process HCP Sharing and learning

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AWF Heartland Conservation Process (HCP)Sharing
and learning
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Presentation Objectives

• Share current methodology/practice of AWFs HCP
  iterative process, undergoing revision now
• Whats working, whats not, and what can we learn
  from our colleagues?
• Feedback on Threats Reduction Assessment (TRA)

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AWF Heartland Conservation Process (HCP)

• AWFs Project Cycle HCP
• Heartland/Landscape-level planning
• Establish biological/socio-economic profile of
  the landscape
• Identify conservation targets
• Determine critical threats
• Heartland Strategy Implementation, Learning and
  Adaptation
• Implementation of Priority Interventions
• Performance and Impact Assessment
• Learning, adaptive management

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Defining the conservation landscape

• Conservation targets form the basis of how the
  conservation landscape will be defined species
  ranges/habitats, critical ecological
  systems/processes.
• Biological, ecological, social and economic
  opportunities in the landscape to determine the
  scope for effective conservation programmes.
• The size of a specific Heartland is decided by
  combination of factors functional ecological
  unit, as well as a functional management unit.

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Selection of Conservation Targets

• Targets Elements of biodiversity in a landscape,
  and the natural processes that maintain them
• Targets are selected through detailed analyses
  and through participatory planning meetings with
  stakeholders
• Species, communities, or large-scale ecological
  systems whose protection will capture all the
  biodiversity in the landscape
• Assess the size, condition, and landscape context
  of each focal target in the landscape
• Initial planning Measures of Conservation
  Success Excel workbook

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Conservation Targets Kilimanjaro Heartland
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Conservation Targets Maasai Steppe Heartland
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Socio-economic analysis

• AWF core belief conservation and development are
  inter-linked, and that truly sustainable
  conservation must contribute to the needs of
  local people
• Adequately address the socio-economic factors
  that affect conservation and development in a
  landscape, we strive to integrate this throughout
  the HCP
• Produce a socio-economic profile of the
  landscape, a clear understanding of the social
  and economic status of local human populations
  and the dynamics of human use

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Socio-economic baseline

• Describe the socio-economic landscape e.g. the
  what and why of livelihood security
  strategies, including description of community
  assets by land management unit.
• Better identify and understand the threats to
  conservation targets rooted in land and resource
  use patterns.
• Prioritize intervention options, and identify
  opportunities by threat, and for potential
  livelihood improvements.
• Identify clear conservation logic for
  socio-economic intervention options.

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Socio-economic analysis intervention level

• Within the monitoring system, on annual basis
• Goal Measurement of livelihood impacts resulting
  from conservation interventions
• Targeting key areas of the landscape
• Sub-landscape level analysis
• AWF is piloting various methodologies in select
  sites in heartlands

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Threats and Opportunity Analysis

• Threat impairment in size, condition or
  landscape context of the target, which reduces
  its viability
• Source of threat extraneous factor (human or
  biological) that causes the threat to the target

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Threats and opportunity analysis

• Analysis of Threats
• Identify threats to each target
• Rank threats
• Severity of damage
• Very High, high, medium, low
• Scope of damage (geographical scope of impact in
  10 years)
• Very High, High, medium, Low
• Analysis of Sources of Threat
• Identify sources of threat (long-term, current or
  high potential, most proximate rather than
  underlying causes)
• Consider how important these threats are, in
  terms of
• Degree of contribution (large or substantial
  contribution?)
• Irreversibility

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Threats and opportunity analysis
What is a "2xError"? (Click the same "What is
'2xError' button to make this comment
disappear.) If the table below shows "2xError"
where there should be a rank, it means that there
are two (or more) listings of the same Source
within one Conservation System/Target. -
Check your target worksheets to make sure that a
Conservation System/Target does not have multiple
listings of the same Source. (It is of course OK
for a Source to be listed once on multiple
Conservation System/Targets.)
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Threat Reduction Assessment (TRA) Worksheet
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2004 TRA Worksheet/Documentation
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Land-use/Land-cover change analysis
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Land-use/Land-cover change analysis
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Heartland Strategy Developed

• Articulate 5-yr goals for conservation targets
• Identify intervention options, linked to threats
  to conservation targets
• 1-yr implementation plan focusing on priority
  interventions

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5-yr Goals for targets

• Target Acacia-savannah mosaic
• Goal Minimise habitat fragmentation, and ensure
  the range of wildlife is not diminished.
  Maintain vegetative composition and condition,
  and restore degraded areas.
• Intervention options
• Land use management plans for Amboseli Group
  Ranches.
• Operationalize Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs)
  in West Kilimanjaro.
• Agreement signed with NARCO West Kili Ranch for
  AWF to be designated with management
  responsibilities of this land unit.
• Two conservation-based enterprises implemented,
  that sets aside land for conservation.

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Priority Interventions

• Synthesis of results from planning process
  targets, threats, strategy
• Identify landscape-altering interventions,
  prioritize based on funding and partner capacity
• Set realistic annual milestones for each
  intervention, check progress at end of the year

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Priority Interventions Kilimanjaro Heartland
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Performance and Impact Assessment (PIMA)
Heartland Capacity Measures 1. Financial 2.
Staffing Heartland Activity Measures 3. Priority
interventions 4. Capacity building 5. Policy and
legislation Heartland Impact Measures 6. Land 7.
Species 8. Human livelihoods 9. Threat reduction
assessment
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Conservation Target Viability
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Land under Conservation Management
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AWF Lessons learned 2000-2005

• Successes?
• Stakeholder buy-in resulting from dedicated
  presence/investment
• Socio-economic analyses two levels
  1-heartland-wide profile 2-Intervention level
• Refinements in the planning process,
  participatory but more targeted, results oriented
• Progress breeds success initial investment and
  tangible results has lead to increased donor
  interest/support
• Using partners to achieve results

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AWF Lessons learned 2000-2005

• Challenges?
• Truly working at Landscape-scale strike balance
  between heartland staff capacity and potential
  impact
• Socio-economic analyses two levels
  1-heartland-wide profile 2-Intervention level
• Strengthening the link between conservation and
  development
• Short-term (3-yr) funding cycles vs. 15-yr
  Heartland planning vision/commitment
• Monitoring system needs strengthening

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Closing

• Thanks to GCP for investing in landscape-level
  conservation, both at field level and in
  learning/documentation
• Learning from partners important for refinement
  of best practices